When we find something particularly beautiful or impressive, we literally get big eyes: Our pupils dilate. The pupil controls how much light enters the eye and…
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive cancer of the blood-forming system. It affects the hematopoietic stem cells, or blood stem cells, of various…
In the medical field, flexible and highly sensitive sensors can combine diagnostics and treatment with high comfort for patients.
Measurement uncertainty is a decisive factor for both quality assurance in module production and for investments in PV power plants. Module manufacturers who…
Neural stem cells are not only responsible for early brain development – they remain active for an entire lifetime. They divide and continually generate new…
Over the past quarter-century, changes in Antarctic sea-ice cover have had profound impacts on life on the ocean floor. As biologists from the Alfred Wegener…
Reliable methods for identifying the new Coronavirus are crucial during the pandemic it has caused. In addition to biochemical tests, x-ray methods can also be…
Five fingers on each hand, five toes on each foot – the entire symmetry of our body is controlled by the HOX genes during development. This group of genes is…
Rechargeable batteries are at the heart of many new technologies involving, for example, the increased use of renewable energies. More specifically, they are…
Global soy trade is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions for multiple reasons. The conversion of natural vegetation into arable land is probably the most…
In his latest line of research, Cun-Zheng Ning, a professor of electrical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University,…
Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA), an industrial chemical used to make certain plastics and resins, inner coatings for food cans and bottle tops, thermal paper…
The metal clusters were synthesized by means of wet chemistry adding gold and silver salts and ethynyladamantane molecules in a mixture of methanol and either…
“Electrical engineers can already make bright LEDs using varying materials to produce different colors. But to improve display technologies, engineers must…
However, a critical durability problem has been low resistance to extreme alkali attack. Researchers at the University of Johannesburg have found that high…
New CU Boulder research published today in Science Advances shows how these specialized compartments, known as carboxysomes, work and how their activity can be…