Honeybee dance dialects
Credit: (Photos: Patrick Kohl / Fabienne Maihoff) After more than 70 years, a great mystery of zoology has been solved: ...
Destruction of an Atlantic rain forest fragment raises the local temperature
Brazilian researchers show that if 25% of a one-hectare forest remnant is cut down, the impact on the local climate ...
New type of indoor solar cells for smart connected devices
Credit: Marina Freitag In a future where most things in our everyday life are connected through the internet, devices and ...
Virginia Tech, University of Virginia work to safeguard US tomato industry
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech entomologist Muni Muniappan has warned of Tuta absoluta's likely arrival into the United States since ...
High-tech contact lenses correct color blindness
Researchers apply metasurfaces to standard contact lenses for customizable color correctionCredit: Sharon Karepov, Tel Aviv University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have ...
Birds of a feather better not together
'Homogenization' threatens ecosystems at larger geographic scalesCredit: Courtesy Proceedings of the Royal Society B Diversity plays a key role in ...
Using ultrasound localization microscopy to detect oxygen levels in tissues
Credit: Doris Dahl, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Researchers at the University of ...
Waves and tides have bigger impact on marine life than human activity
Study of over 170 species in Swansea Bay, WalesCredit: Ruth Callaway/Swansea University The biggest impacts on the sea life in ...
Expanding the plasmonic painter’s palette
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07523 By blending paints in their palette, artists can create a broad spectrum ...
Micromotors get supercharged with three ‘engines’
Credit: Adapted from Chemistry of Materials 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b04873 Someday, microscopic robots could perform useful functions, such as diagnostic testing ...
Nanoscale spectroscopy review showcases a bright future
Modern society is working closer to the nanoscale than it realisesCredit: Luco Bravo Unsplash Modern society is working closer to ...
Newfound cell defense system features toxin-isolating ‘sponges’
Credit: Courtesy of Nature A "decoy" mechanism has been found in human and animal cells to protect them from potentially ...
A talented 2D material gets a new gig
Berkeley Lab scientists tap into graphene's hidden talent as an electrically tunable superconductor, insulator, and magnetic device for the advancement ...
Scientists discover new repair mechanism for alcohol-induced DNA damage
Credit: Image copyright: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology or MRC LMB Researchers of the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) in Utrecht, The ...
Exciting apparatus helps atoms see the light
Researchers study unusual particles involved in quantum information processingCredit: OIST Researchers in the Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit at ...
Personalised medicine increases IVF success rate
Credit: Image credit: sathyatripodi from Pixabay. Becoming pregnant can be a lengthy and stressful process for one in every six ...
First-ever CRISPR gene editing within human body done at OHSU
BRILLIANCE clinical trial aims to enable sight in people born with a blindness-causing mutationCredit: Oregon Health & Science University The ...
Sulfonated chitosan studied as potential biodegradable corrosion inhibitor
Kazan University's research of methane hydrates continues in this paper in Carbohydrate PolymersCredit: Kazan Federal University Hydrate formation has long ...
Novel compound sparks new malaria treatment hope
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A novel class of antimalarial compounds that can effectively kill malaria parasites has been ...
Scorpions make a fluorescent compound that could help protect them from parasites
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Natural Products 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b00972 Most scorpions glow a blue-green color when illuminated by ultraviolet ...
