With climate change in our own era becoming increasingly evident, it's natural to wonder how our ancestors may have dealt ...

Credit: ©2017, Mary Ann Liebert Inc, publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 27, 2017 -- Advanced engineering of a mini-intronic plasmid ...

Credit: Willie Padilla, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Electrical engineers at Duke University have created the world's first electromagnetic metamaterial ...

Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) Munich have, for the first time, measured the lifetime of an excited state in the nucleus ...

Credit: Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA The lesser-known constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), is home to a variety ...

Credit: Elle Starkman Physicist Igor Kaganovich at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and collaborators have ...

Credit: NASA A team of Andalusian scientists, led by the University of Granada (UGR), has been able to reconstruct for ...

Credit: Photo by J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester A new beam pattern devised by University of Rochester researchers could bring ...

Daejeon, Republic of Korea, January 27, 2016--The potential applications of three-dimensional (3D) digital holograms are enormous. In addition to arts ...

Credit: TU Wien Recently, surprising physical effects were observed using special microscopic waveguides for light. Such "photonic structures" currently are ...

What can we learn from the Nordic low-carbon energy transition given the new US leadership vacuum on climate change? A ...

Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU Jena (Germany) Mild in flavour and of great nutritional value: the light-yellow vegetable oil pressed from sunflower ...

Credit: Photo: Patrick Seeger The University of Freiburg has set up infrastructure and services to support researchers across Europe in ...

Conservation and preservation of historical monuments as well as of single artworks of our cultural heritage are receiving increasing attention. ...

But whenever a brand tries to shave a few percentages off the size of their product, consumers immediately notice and ...

Credit: Dr. Lennart de Nooijer (NIOZ) Fact: More carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air also acidifies the oceans. It seemed ...

Antibodies are able to activate human nerve cells within milliseconds and hence modify their function -- that is the surprising ...

The International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Call for Proposals is now open. Whether you have ...

Credit: Yakobson Research Group HOUSTON - (Jan. 26, 2017) - Hold on, there, graphene. You might think you're the most ...

Credit: Brian Gratwicke As human diseases become alarmingly antibiotic resistant, identification of new pharmaceuticals is critical. The cane toad and ...