What does East Germany’s rise and fall have to do with pigs? A lot, actually
The communist state's approach to industrial pig farming foreshadowed its demise, a University of Rochester historian arguesCredit: University of Washington...
Argonne team collects Best Paper Award at SC20
Credit: Image courtesy of SC20 conference. An innovative collaboration between computer and computational scientists from the Data Science and Learning...
Identifying compound classes through machine learning
Bioinformaticians at the University of Jena and partners develop new method for analysing metabolitesCredit: Image: Jens Meyer/University of Jena (Jena,...
Growing interest in Moon resources could cause tension, scientists find
New research indicates that limited resources on Earth's satellite could cause crowding and competition as site selection, extraction become realityCredit:...
Tarantula toxin attacks with molecular stinger
Venom immobilizes prey by interfering with sodium channels that generate electrical signals in the animal's nerve cellsCredit: Alice C. Gray...
Recording the symphony of cellular signals that drive biology
Credit: C. Linghu, S. Johnson et al./Cell 2020 A new imaging technology lets scientists spy on the flurry of messages...
New targeted therapy blocks metabolism in brain cancer cells with genetic vulnerability
Preclinical study shows early activity of enolase inhibitors in cancer cells with genetic loss of ENO1Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center...
Study reveals true origin of oldest evidence of animals
Credit: Image of courtesy of Ilya Bobrovskiy Two teams of scientists have resolved a longstanding controversy surrounding the origins of...
Vibrational encounters – phonon polaritons meet molecules
Credit: (Credit: Scixel. Copyright: CIC nanoGUNE BRTA) The images reveal that vibrational strong coupling can be achieved, which is a...
CCNY researchers overcome barriers for bio-inspired solar energy harvesting materials
Credit: Top image adapted from Journal of Physical Chemical Letters. Bottom image, Kara Ng, Nature Chemistry 2020 Inspired by nature,...
AI plots sustainable materials
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Xavier Pita Machine learning could teach us how to make the manufacturing of materials cleaner and...
Did early life need long, complex molecules to make cell-like compartments?
Researchers make functional membraneless "protocells" out of short polymersCredit: Fatma Pir Cakmak, Penn State Protocell compartments used as models for...
Perfect imperfection: Electrode defects boost resistive memory efficiency
Imperfect electrode proves more efficientCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Resistive switching memory devices offer several advantages over the currently used...
Laser technology: New trick for infrared laser pulses
Infrared light can be used to detect molecules -- but it is hard to create strong, short laser pulses; a...
Replication cycle of SARS-CoV-2 in 3D
Credit: Julian Hennies/EMBL As the global coronavirus pandemic continues, scientists are not only trying to find vaccines and drugs to...
Controlling fully integrated nanodiamonds
Physicists integrate diamond-based quantum systems into nanophotonic circuitsCredit: P. Schrinner/AG Schuck Using modern nanotechnology, it is possible nowadays to produce...
COVID19 A research of Politecnico di Milano discovering the secrets of viral sequences
The search engine ViruSurf discloses the changes of the genome of the virus responsible for the pandemicsCredit: Politecnico di Milano...
Non-invasive electrolyte levels’ measuring method can prevent sudden cardiac death
Researchers from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania came up with the idea on how to measure fluctuating blood potassium...
Quantum X-ray microscope underway at Brookhaven Lab
Researchers at the National Synchrotron Light Source II will use the quantum properties of x-rays to "ghost image" biomoleculesCredit: Brookhaven...
Remote control of heat nanosources motion and thermal-induced fluid flows by using light forces
Credit: by José A. Rodrigo, Mercedes Angulo and Tatiana Alieva Today, optofluidics is one of the most representative application of...
