Nature Immunology
Nanoparticles offer hope for common skin allergy
Tiny particles only billionths of a meter in diameter—about two thousand would fit across the width of a human hair—could offer big hope in a small package to…
Charge it: Neutral atoms made to act like electrically charged particles
Reported in the journal Nature Physics,** these synthetic electric fields make each atom in a gas act, individually, as if it were a charged particle, but…
Fossil is best look yet at an ancestor of buttercups
“This fossil opens up a new way of thinking about the evolution of some of the first flowering plants,” said Indiana University Bloomington biologist David…
When bacteria get the flu and sharpen their knives
It is true; also microbes get infected by viruses. Consequently, they have evolved immunity mechanisms to fend off attacks by the enemy. In bacteria and…
Kepler spacecraft gives Iowa State's Kawaler, astronomers a look inside red giant stars
“No one anticipated seeing this before the mission launched,” said Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy and a leader of…
Berkeley Lab researchers make first perovskite-based superlens for the infrared
Superlenses hold enormous potential in a range of applications, depending upon the form of light they capture, but their use has been limited because most have…