A multinational research team has discovered filamentous bacteria that function as living power cables in order to transmit electrons thousands of cell lengths…
They identified environmental, economic and social constraints but also options for efficient use of surplus land for bioenergy. The study provides a…
Using “bomb pulse” radiocarbon analysis developed at Lawrence Livermore, combined with recently developed anthropological analysis and forensic DNA techniques,…
Drawing on research being carried out under the umbrella of the Living With Environmental Change programme, Relu has defined some important principles about…
In a recent issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, researchers describe how they used commercially available mapping software to identify…
The research was reported online on Sep. 4 in the journal Advanced Materials and Vanderbilt has applied for a patent on the combination. “This combination…
This field is known as plasmonics because scientists are trying to take advantage of plasmons, electrons that have been “excited” by light in a phenomenon that…
These results have the potential to bring millisecond scale sampling, now available only on a multi-million dollar supercomputer, to all researchers, and could…
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research provides over €300,000 for the next three years to fund a new research project at the Mainz University…
Together with food science experts József Baranyi, from the Institute of Food Research in the U.K., and Zoltán Lakner, of Corvinus University in Budapest,…
An interdisciplinary team, led by researchers at Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), today…
Walking involves a repeated process referred to by scientists as 'crash, vault, push' – landing ('crashing') on the heel, vaulting over the stationary leg and…
This is one of the findings of a translational research project conducted by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. The project demonstrated how 3D models and special…
International research in fuel is becoming increasingly diverse. It's not just about setting the chemical energy in liquid fuel into motion. There are also the…
A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet.Devised by engineers at…
A significant advance is reported in a recent article in the journal Applied Physics Letters. It details discovery of how infrared photodetection can be done…