Nanocapsules and other containers can transport drugs through a patient's body directly to the origin of the disease and release them there in a controlled…
Ferromagnets, or more precisely, magnets – are extremely demanded materials in modern electronics. The magnets present in almost every device – TVs, computers,…
Structured light is a fancy way to describe patterns or pictures of light, but deservedly so as it promises future communications that will be both faster and…
We are surrounded by a multitude of sensors that permanently measure the environment – and produce a real flood of data. For example, modern geo-information is…
Chameleons, salamanders and many toads use stored elastic energy to launch their sticky tongues at unsuspecting insects located up to one-and-a-half body…
The potassium chloride cotransporter 1 (KCC1) structure solved in this study carries positively charged potassium ions (K+) and negatively charged chloride…
Among events during the week was announcement of new APS Fellows, a recognition for outstanding achievement that no more than one-half of one percent of the…
Through the crafty use of magnetic fields, scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and the Johannes Kepler University in Linz have…
The “Healthy Crops” research consortium, headed by Humboldt Professor Wolf B. Frommer from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU), develops tools for…
Topological insulators are materials with astonishing properties: Electric current flows only along their surfaces or edges, whereas the interior of the…
An empty street, a row of parked cars at the side: nothing to indicate that you should be careful. But wait: Isn't there a side street up ahead, half covered…
A team led by Prof Dmitry Budker has continued their search for dark matter within the framework of the ‘Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment’ (or ‘CASPEr’…
Trapping the white blood cells – which are about the size of cancer cells – and filtering out smaller red blood cells leaves behind the tumor cells, which…
A decades-old mystery: where are the most energetic particles coming from?
New genetic research has identified fin whales in the northern Pacific Ocean as a separate subspecies, reflecting a revolution in marine mammal taxonomy as…
“We believe that our technique has the potential to be developed into a new treatment for lymph nodes invaded by metastatic tumour cells,” says Tetsuya Kodama,…
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