A little over a year ago, Caltech's Lihong Wang developed the world's fastest camera, a device capable of taking 10 trillion pictures per second. It is so fast…
A Duke University research team has identified a new function of a gene called huntingtin, a mutation of which underlies the progressive neurodegenerative…
People with osteoarthritis, or “wear and tear” arthritis, have limited treatment options: pain relievers or joint replacement surgery. Now, Salk researchers…
Researchers at the Case Western University School of Medicine say they have identified a previously unknown gene and associated protein which could potentially…
When an arm snaps, a leg cracks or a wrist twists, physicians set the bone to ensure it heals properly and with as little discomfort to the patient as…
In the latest issue of Nature Communications, CSHL Professor Hiro Furukawa and colleagues detailed how they identified and perfected a chemical compound that…
Paleontologists from the University of Bonn used the neutron source of the Technical University of Munich at the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) in…
Up until now, farmers have calculated the amount of fertilizer per field on the basis of average yield and average soil quality. However, soil properties,…
Small fish use light for active sensing to detect potential predators. The Yellow Black-faced Triplefin (Tripterygion delaisi) can reflect downwelling sunlight…
In the event of an infection in the gastrointestinal tract, part of the tissue becomes inflamed, and intestinal nerve cells die off. Among other things, this…
The discovery can help in the development of better treatment and diagnostics for melanoma. Published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, the study was…
The recent advance in acoustic metamaterial/metasurface brings forward perfect absorbers (resonators) that possess ultra-thin thickness but relatively narrow…
Since the concept of micromotors was proposed, great scientific interest has been attracted, as a consequence, impressive progress has been made in exploiting…
Superconductors allow electrical current to flow without any resistance – but only below a certain critical temperature. Many materials have to be cooled down…
Methane generation by microorganisms is traditionally considered to take place only under strictly anoxic conditions by microbes of the domain Archaea. This…
Even though there is a strong market need in bringing such functionalities to the consumer market, this would require a technology that is low-cost, CMOS…
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