Interdisciplinary Research
News and developments from the field of interdisciplinary research.
Among other topics, you can find stimulating reports and articles related to microsystems, emotions research, futures research and stratospheric research.
Penn Researchers Show New Level of Control Over Liquid Crystals
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania has shown a new way to direct the assembly of liquid crystals, generating small…
Focusing light on the nanoscale: Making nanolenses from metallic particles and DNA
This constrain arises from an effect called diffraction, inherent to all conventional lenses, and represents an obstacle for the development of nanotechnology…
Living power cables discovered
A multinational research team has discovered filamentous bacteria that function as living power cables in order to transmit electrons thousands of cell lengths…
Food vs. fuel: Is there surplus land for bioenergy?
They identified environmental, economic and social constraints but also options for efficient use of surplus land for bioenergy. The study provides a…
Cold cases heat up through Lawrence Livermore approach to identifying remains
Using “bomb pulse” radiocarbon analysis developed at Lawrence Livermore, combined with recently developed anthropological analysis and forensic DNA techniques,…
Nature Improvement Areas need good planning responses
Drawing on research being carried out under the umbrella of the Living With Environmental Change programme, Relu has defined some important principles about…