While viruses and bacteria regularly manage to infect the human organism, fungi only very rarely succeed. The reason for this is that the human immune system…
Who ever said bioengineers can't get their groove on? The Rice University team led by Antonios Mikos says otherwise with its development of a groovy method to…
Scientists at the University of California San Diego have a much clearer idea thanks to the evolution of an advanced imaging system designed to record…
In a paper in Light: Science & Applications, the lab of Chunlei Guo, professor of optics also affiliated with Physics and the Material Sciences Program,…
A wide range of problems in modern science are solved through quantum mechanical calculations. Some of the examples are research into chemical reactions and…
In a study published in Nature Communications, the team stored a variety of image files — a Picasso drawing, an image of the Egyptian god Anubis and others –…
The method, called “magnetic levitation,” or MagLev, had previously been used to separate different types of particles in solutions, arranging them in groups…
Bees are an important factor for our environment and our sustenance. Without insect pollination, many plant species – including various crops – cannot…
Like humans, stars change with age and ultimately die. For the Sun and stars like it, this change will take it through a phase where, having burned all the…
Microbiological communities, which include bacteria, single-celled organisms and nematodes, reveal a great deal of information about the state of soils. All…
Madagascar is a paradise for nature lovers, since most of the land vertebrate species are only found on this large island off the east coast of Africa. The…
Vision is fundamentally based on the perception of contrast. When light conditions change, the eye needs a certain period of time to adapt and restore its…
At the end of December 2019, the first cases of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus were reported from the Chinese city of Wuhan. Since then, infections…
Painful hypodermic needles may not be needed in the future to give shots, inject drugs and get blood samples.
In the past decade nanomedicine has contributed to better detection and treatment of cancer. Nanoparticles are several 100 times smaller than the smallest…
The scientists conducted neutron scattering experiments at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US on samples of zirconium vanadium hydride at…
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