Carbon dioxide has become notorious as a troublesome greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels. Now, this gas could also offer a cheap, abundant and…
Continual downsizing of technology means that researchers have to develop ever more ingenious methods of packaging and protecting their tiny devices. Jae-Wung…
Engineers from the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and colleagues at the University of Basel, Switzerland, have designed and developed a…
Randomly arranged items usually have poor optical properties. The rough—or random—surface of a frosted-glass window, for example, obscures the view of an…
In this study, they were able to replicate human pancreatic beta cells – the cells in our body that produce the critical hormone insulin – in a mouse model in…
The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene – the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move…
Research involving rats suggests that there is a biological link between paternal diet, bodyweight and health at the time of conception and the health of his…
The alcoholic content of wine has crept gradually northward in the last 10-15 years, from 12-12.5 percent to beyond 15 percent. What might sound trivial to…
How do bacteria, the intestinal surface and the immune system interact with each other?Dr Till Strowig from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI)…
This is the result of a recently concluded study in which a research group from Kassel University also participated. Climate change is just one of the causes…
The paper, “Optimism and Challenge for Science-based Conservation of Migratory Species in and out of U.S. National Parks,” currently appears in the online…
The findings, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, “present a breakthrough in understanding the secret life of prion molecules in the brain and…
Researchers at Loyola University Health System have identified a marker to identify those infants who are at risk for the infection, enabling doctors to employ…
From 2000 to 2010, about 1,900 cyclones churned across the top of the world each year, leaving warm water and air in their wakes – and melting sea ice in the…
Archaeologists working at the southern Egyptian site of Abydos have discovered the tomb of a previously unknown pharaoh: Woseribre Senebkay—and the first…
According to their research, published recently by The Canadian Entomologist, these fossils show their early evolution parallels an ecological revolution, one…
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