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Water is surprisingly ordered on the nanoscale
Credit: © EPFL/Julia Jacobi Chair of Photomedicine - Laboratory for Fundamental BioPhotonic Nanometric-sized water drops are everywhere - in the...
One-dimensional crystals for low-temperature thermoelectric cooling
Credit: Yoshihiko Okamoto Nagoya, Japan- Thermoelectric cooling is a solid-state refrigeration process where the heat in an electrically conductive material...
Volunteers help ANU find star that exploded 970 million years ago, predating the dinosaurs
Credit: ANU Online volunteers, including a woman from Belgium and a Scottish man, have helped astronomers at The Australian National...
Sorghum: Health food, sweetener and now, clothing dye
Credit: American Chemical Society Sorghum has long been a staple food in many parts of the world, but in the...
Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research institute partners with Wiley
HOBOKEN, NJ - 24 May 2017 - John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb) and Electronics and Telecommunications...
PolyU wins 3 ‘TechConnect Global Innovation Awards’ — the first and the only HK awardee
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The annual TechConnect World held in the US aims for supporting the development and...
NUS researchers create palm-size device for quick, effective treatment of hearing disorder
Credit: National University of Singapore A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel...
Atlas of the human planet 2017 — how exposed are we to natural hazards?
One out of three people in the world is exposed to earthquakes, a number which almost doubled in the past...
Can parents’ tech obsessions contribute to a child’s bad behavior?
Loading video... Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Fatigue. Hunger. Boredom. Those are often on the list of reasons...
KIT’s supercomputer is excellent in all respects
Credit: Photo: KIT The new supercomputer of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) not only is very fast, but also very...
High voltage for tomorrow’s particle accelerator
The most well-known use of high voltage pulses is in electric fences on farms. However, particle accelerators in large-scale research...
Three-dimensional graphene: Experiment at BESSY II shows that optical properties are tuneable
Credit: Nature Communications: 10.1038/ncomms14885 Carbon is a very versatile element. It not only forms diamonds, graphite, and coal, but can...
Using a genetic signature to overcome chemotherapy-resistant lung cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - May 23, 2017 - Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) often respond to standard...
Revealed: How polyomavirus tricks our cells into helping it build its invasion route
Loading video... Credit: Tsai laboratory, University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Every cell in our body runs like a...
A new method for creating safer induced pluripotent stem cells
Credit: Future Science Group Induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) hold great promise in regenerative medicine, personalized medicine and drug discovery....
Paper test strip could help heart failure patients monitor their condition at home
Credit: Credit: American Chemical Society Contrary to the condition's name, heart failure doesn't mean the heart has stopped pumping --...
Moffitt researchers demonstrate mathematical modeling limits aggressive tumor cell growth
TAMPA, Fla. (May 24, 2017) - Cancers can be viewed as complex dynamic systems because they have many interacting parts...
Study suggests metals from Bolivian mines affect crops and pose potential health risk
Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Professor Robert Nairn and his co-authors have...
System piggybacks on Bitcoin to prevent identity theft
A reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin is a digital-currency scheme designed to wrest control of the monetary system...
Learning about nutrition from ‘food porn’ and online quizzes
Many of our social media feeds are dominated by beautiful, mouth-watering photos of food. These photos inspire some serious food...
