Supermarkets and child nutrition in Africa
New study by University of Göttingen shows reduction of child undernutrition through supermarkets in KenyaCredit: E M Meemken Hunger and ...
Human behaviour follows probabilistic inference patterns
According to a study published on Nov. 28 in Nature Communications by Philipp Schustek, Alexandre Hyafil and Rubén Moreno-Bote, researchers ...
New streaming technology will change computer gaming
Credit: © Dieter Schmalstieg Streaming services, such as Netflix or Amazon Prime, are widely used. But the next wave of ...
Käthe Beutler: ‘Do something!’
Credit: Fred Beutler, privat. When Bruce Beutler won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2011, he reminisced about his grandmother, ...
Testing barley’s salt tolerance is a numbers game
Credit: © 2019 KAUST Plant scientists are striving to cultivate crops that can cope with saline soils in the hope ...
New membrane technology to boost water purification and energy storage
Credit: Qilei Song, Imperial College London Imperial College London scientists have created a new type of membrane that could improve ...
SLAC scientists invent a way to see attosecond electron motions with an X-ray laser
Called XLEAP, the new method will provide sharp views of electrons in chemical processes that take place in billionths of ...
Hyperfine and Penn Medicine announce partnership to image hydrocephalus patients
World's first portable, low-cost MRI system is a new tool for clinical diagnosis and patient monitoringCredit: Hyperfine GUILFORD, Conn.--(December 2, ...
SwRI-built instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the Sun
Research could help predict when New Horizons spacecraft will cross the termination shockCredit: Figure courtesy of Southwest Research Institute; background ...
Controlling the optical properties of solids with acoustic waves
Credit: Adriel Dominguez (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg) One of the main challenges in materials science research is to achieve high ...
Malaria deaths could be reduced thanks to Warwick engineers
Credit: University of Warwick Since 2015 Malaria has resurged and typical bednets treated with insecticide are losing their efficiency due ...
A question of pressure
PTB scientists have developed a new primary method for the measurement of pressure based on electrical measurements carried out on ...
Making higher-energy light to fight cancer
Researchers use nontoxic silicon nanocrystals to convert low-energy photons into high-energy ones, bringing scientists closer to developing photodynamic treatments for ...
Bushmeat may breed deadly bacteria
Credit: Robab Katani, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- People who eat wildebeests, wart hogs and other wild African animals ...
Daylight damage-saving time
A research team led by Kanazawa University studies the process by which the performance of advanced solar cells degrades over ...
The impact of molecular rotation on a peculiar isotope effect on water hydrogen bonds
Unveiling two deuteration effects on hydrogen-bond breaking process of water isotopomersCredit: NINS/IMS The physicochemical and biological properties of hydrogen-bonded systems ...
Designing and repurposing cell receptors
Credit: Daniel Keri, EPFL Called the "second secret of life", allostery is one of the most fundamental processes of biology ...
Molecular vibrations lead to high performance laser
Breakthrough method has implications for enhanced performance of lasers for communications, diagnostics and defenseCredit: Troan Tran Lasers. They are used ...
New 5G-based system for sanitary emergency situations
Credit: IMDEA Networks Institute 5TONIC, the open research and innovation laboratory on 5G technologies, founded by Telefónica and IMDEA Networks, ...
Mercury transit observed at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory — IOTW1948
Transit image with a twist (and a turn!)Credit: NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory About 13 times per century, fleeting ...
