Pitt engineer maintains a laser focus to grow nanocarbons on flexible devices
Mostafa Bedewy will use a $240K NSF award to study a new scalable laser patterning process for directly growing tailored...
Brothers in arms: The brain and its blood vessels
Study shows how blood vessels sense the metabolic state of neuronal cellsCredit: MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, B. Sheikh The...
Improved gut microbiota with cholesterol-lowering medication
Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg There is a clear link between improved gut microbiota and one of our most common...
Why pulsars shine bright: A half-century-old mystery solved
Intense radio emissions produced by the fast-spinning stars are caused by newborn particles interacting with powerful electromagnetic fields, new plasma...
Melting a crystal topologically
Credit: Huang Ping (Xi'an Jiaotong University) The introduction of topology, a branch of mathematics focusing on the properties of "knots",...
International summer school-conference ‘Advanced Problems In Mechanics’
Conference 'Advanced Problems in Mechanics' (APM-online) will be held onlineCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University From June 21 to...
Unpacking the two layers of bacterial gene regulation during plant infection
Credit: Tatsuya Nobori By analysing the different layers of bacterial gene expression during pathogen infection of a plant host, Kenichi...
Research reveals how material defects influence melting process
Credit: Ling Lab/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In 1972, physicists J. Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless published a groundbreaking theory...
Superlens squeezes light into nanospace
Plasmon nanojet: Physicists implement efficient mechanism for subwavelength focusing of plasmonsCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Russian and Danish researchers have...
Surprising growth rates discovered in world’s deepest photosynthetic corals
Credit: Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, University of Hawaii. New research published in the journal Coral Reefs revealed unexpectedly high growth...
The first intuitive programming language for quantum computers
Credit: ETH Zurich Programming quantum computers is becoming easier: computer scientists at ETH Zurich have designed the first programming language...
A phase battery for quantum technologies
The first quantum phase battery has been realized. It consist of an indium arsenide (InAs) nanowire in contact with aluminum...
Elasticity key to plants and animals’ ability to sting
A new study explains for the very first time the principles behind the design of stings, needles, and spikes in...
Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice
New study suggests that plasma exchange could be the key to unlocking the body's regenerative capacitiesCredit: Image courtesy Irina Conboy...
A raft that won’t save you
New research investigates the role of lipid rafts in virus infiltrationCredit: Carotenuto, Lunghi et al. PITTSBURGH (June 15, 2020) --...
New indication of a link between Alzheimer’s and diabetes
High-resolution 3D model reveals strong similarity in fibril structureCredit: Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich/HHU Düsseldorf/Gunnar Schröder Pathological protein clumps are characteristic of...
Tuberculosis vaccine strengthens immune system
Study by the Universities of Bonn and Nijmegen explains how BCG vaccination reduces susceptibility to infectionsCredit: © University Bonn A...
Stanford researchers develop artificial synapse that works with living cells
Credit: L.A. Cicero/Stanford News Service In 2017, Stanford University researchers presented a new device that mimics the brain's efficient and...
A clique away from more efficient networks
Credit: © 2020 KAUST A framework that uses graph theory, which considers how networks are coded, could help make digital...
£19k government grant to help combat fraudsters as people reveal all on social media
Government funding for a project to educate the public about promoting sensitive personal information on social media,Credit: University of Huddersfield...
