The European Chronic Disease Alliance defines cancer as the biggest non-communicable illness of our time causing 13% of global deaths. Breast cancer is the…
One of the biggest challenges facing synthetic chemists is how to make molecules of only a particular “handedness.” Molecules can come in two shapes that…
Rice University scientists are counting on films of carbon nanotubes to make high-powered, fast-charging lithium metal batteries a logical replacement for…
Rice postdoctoral researcher and seismologist Jonathan Delph and Earth scientists Fenglin Niu and Alan Levander make a case for the incursion of fluid related…
The technological vision of building a quantum computer does not only depend on computer and information science. New insights in theoretical physics, too, are…
Why does evolution repeat itself? What happens genetically during these repetitions? Do the same or other genes and mechanisms produce organisms that look…
TMAO and urea are molecules that affect the osmotic pressure in living cells, so called osmolytes: With high concentrations of both urea and TMAO, marine…
The complete process chain serves as the common theme
Ash is sometimes seen as a secondary danger in volcanoes when compared to more visual hazards, such as lava and pyroclastic flows. However, ash can have a…
The study, led by UB lecturers Ricard Albalat and Cristian Cañestero from the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics and members of the…
What would it take to meet the world's energy needs, sustainably, far into the foreseeable future? Perhaps creating energy the way the sun does, through…
Future information and communication technologies will rely on the manipulation of not only electrons but also of light at the nanometer-scale. Squeezing…
One of the outstanding mysteries of the cerebral cortex is how individual neurons develop the proper synaptic connections to form large-scale, distributed…
Antibiotic resistance of bacteria is one of the most important medical issues of our time. Left unchecked, previously well-treatable bacterial diseases are at…
Mites are the most diverse arachnids, with more than 50,000 living species described. Most of them are tiny and largely inconspicuous. Fossil mites remain…
In an ageing society more and more people suffer from memory disorders. The progressive loss of memory severely impairs the quality of life of those affected….
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