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Health & Medicine

3D Printed Artificial Pericardial Tissue: A New Frontier

The PolyKARD partners – AdjuCor GmbH, the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP, the NMI Natural and Medical Sciences Institute, Young Optics…

Physics & Astronomy

Single Atom Measures Quantum Information in Breakthrough Experiment

In their experiments, the scientists around Professor Dr Artur Widera, who researches quantum systems, observe individual caesium atoms in a rubidium gas that…

Physics & Astronomy

Acoustically Driven Microrobot Beats Natural Microswimmers

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart developed a bullet-shaped, synthetic miniature robot with a diameter of…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Microbial Symbiosis in Deep-Sea Environments

Bacteria in our environment can be difficult to study: They are tiny and often live under conditions hard to recreate in the lab, for example in the deep sea…

Earth Sciences

Ocean-Driven Glacier Melting: New Insights from AWI Research

AWI researchers have now found an explanation for the intensive melting on the ice’s underside, and published their findings in the journal Nature Geoscience.

Life & Chemistry

New Method Cleans Oil From Water in Just 18 Seconds

The video clip is as short as it is impressive: The 18-second sequence shows a pipette from which dark-colored crude oil drips into a glass of water. Then a…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Cell Regulation: Insights From Nucleus Blueprints

In living cells, everything follows a plan: The blueprints for all building and operating materials are stored in the cell nucleus. If, for example, a certain…

Earth Sciences

Viscosity measurements offer new insights into the earth's mantle

In addition, the data also provides indications that the lower mantle contains larger reservoirs of materials that originated in an early magma ocean and have…

Materials Sciences

Exploring Flexible Sensor Systems: The Lightest Magnetic Innovation

A team of researchers from Osaka University and Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research developed the world's thinnest and lightest magnetic…

Information Technology

New Meta-Hologram Innovates Communication Inspired by Movies

As seen in the movie, Black Panther, people from Wakanda Kingdom communicate to each other through the hologram and, this specific movie scene seems to become…

Life & Chemistry

Iron Nanorobots Deliver Cancer Treatment Inside Cells

Co-developed by KAUST researchers, these nanowires release their drug cargo inside cancer cells, while also punching holes in the cell's membrane and…

Life & Chemistry

Molecular Motors Shape Stem Cell Fate Through Surface Structure

'Cells are sensitive to the structure of the surface that they attach to,' explains Patrick van Rijn, associate professor in Materiobiology and…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Malaria Parasites’ Sugar Transport Mechanism

“By elucidating the atomic structure of the sugar-transporting-protein PfHT1, we can better understand how glucose is transported into the parasite”, says…

Life & Chemistry

New Insight: How HIV Drugs Target Viral Structures

Salk scientists have discovered how a powerful class of HIV drugs binds to a key piece of HIV machinery. By solving, for the first time, three-dimensional…

Physics & Astronomy

Hydrogen Insights: Exploring Metal-To-Metal Hydride Interfaces

To understand the properties of materials, it is often vital to observe their structure at an atomic resolution. Visualizing atoms using a transmission…

Life & Chemistry

Invasive Species Threatens Antarctic Coasts via Drifting Algae

Drifting algae in the Austral Ocean can bring invasive species to the Antarctic coasts, according to a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. The…

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