Trash talking has a long and colorful history of flustering game opponents, and now researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated that…
Since these groups are among the most diverse beetles representing nearly half of all living beetle species the authors of the study are convinced that these…
By controlling individual atoms, quantum properties can be investigated and made usable for technological applications. For about ten years, physicists have…
Toxic substances such as pesticides can cause effects on sensitive individuals in concentrations up to ten thousand times lower than previously assumed. This…
In photovoltaic cells, semiconductors will absorb photon energy, but only from photons that have the right amount of energy: too little and the photons pass…
The cells in our body are workshops that continuously operate to produce and process substances to keep us going. When a substance enters a cell for…
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Nearly three-quarters of all clinically relevant antibiotics are natural substances, produced by bacteria. However, the antibiotics that are currently…
In order to remember where important events happened, or how to get from A to B, our brains form mental “maps” of our environment. An important component of…
Inaccessible valleys and ravines lead from the North East Indian Meghalaya plateau to the wide plains of Bangladesh. In the monsoon months the mountain streams…
LecB of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a bacterial virulence factor that impairs signaling of growth factor receptors- in other words, proteins found on the surface…
With new images from NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO), the researchers have revealed in groundbreaking, granular detail what appears to be a likely…
Artificial muscles will power the soft robots and wearable devices of the future. But more needs to be understood about the underlying mechanics of these…
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a low-temperature catalyst for removing NOx gas from industrial exhaust using ammonia. Composed of…
The team of scientists from the Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden (a satellite of Helmholtz Zentrum München and a partner of the German Center for Diabetes…
The new findings show that important steps in the Earth's sulfur cycle have not yet been properly understood, as they call into question the previously assumed…
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