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Life & Chemistry

Interactive Control of Catalyst Nanoparticle Sizes

At the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, a qualitatively new technique was developed to improve the process of such…

Earth Sciences

Arctic Sea Ice Growth Slows Amid Warming Trends, NASA Reports

As temperatures in the Arctic have warmed at double the pace of the rest of the planet, the expanse of frozen seawater that blankets the Arctic Ocean and…

Life & Chemistry

A sensor system learns to “hear”: Reliable detection of failures in machines and systems – Innovations Report

”It is with great concern that we have watched as worldwide access to breeding material is increasingly restricted by private-sector interests. Among other…

Life & Chemistry

Neural Networks Enhance Microscopy for 3D Cell Imaging

Modern microscopes can record many hours of 3D time-lapse movies of every cell as an organism develops. Just as for regular photography, fluorescence…

Materials Sciences

New Method Transfers 2D Circuits to Any Smooth Surface

Rice engineers led by materials scientists Pulickel Ajayan and Jun Lou have developed a method to make atom-flat sensors that seamlessly integrate with devices…

Materials Sciences

Engineers Unlock Foam Creation with Bubbles of Varying Sizes

Rice University engineers can do that and much more. Rice chemical and biomolecular engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal and lead author and graduate student Daniel…

Physics & Astronomy

DF-PGT Enabled by Massive Sequencing Techniques at UAB

A research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), in collaboration with the Blood and Tissue Bank of Catalonia, has managed to implement a…

Materials Sciences

New X-Ray Technique Reveals Antiferromagnetic Arrangements

A team led by Rutgers University and including scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has demonstrated an x-ray…

Health & Medicine

UC San Diego researchers develop sensors to detect and measure cancer's ability to spread

“Cancer would not be so devastating if it did not metastasize,” said Pradipta Ghosh, MD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine departments of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Insecticide Contamination Threatens U.S. Surface Water Quality

Insecticides are applied in large volumes across the United States to protect agricultural crops from insect pests. As has been shown before through studies…

Event News

EGU 2019 Meeting: Media Registration Now Open for Journalists

The EGU General Assembly (https://www.egu2019.eu/) allows journalists to learn about new developments in a range of fields, such as planetary exploration,…

Life & Chemistry

Artificial Synapses: Nanowires Transforming AI Technology

Computers have learned a lot in recent years. Thanks to rapid progress in artificial intelligence they are now able to drive cars, translate texts, defeat…

Materials Sciences

Exploring New Frontiers in Superconductivity Research

Scientists mapping out the quantum characteristics of superconductors–materials that conduct electricity with no energy loss–have entered a new regime.

Information Technology

Three Components on One Chip: A Leap in Quantum Computing

Quantum computers one day should be able to solve certain computing problems much faster than a classical computer. One of the most promising approaches is…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Cereals’ Chemical Defenses: A Unique Approach to Herbivores

A team of scientists from the University of Bern (Switzerland) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and their partners have characterized multiple…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Enhancing Hydropower Efficiency With Drought Forecasting

Changing climatic conditions pose extra challenges for hydropower plant operators. As part of the National Research Programme “Energy Turnaround” (NRP 70),…

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