The pressure sensor of the venus flytrap
Credit: (Picture: Ines Kreuzer, Soenke Scherzer / University of Wuerzburg) All plant cells can be made to react by touch or injury. The carnivorous Venus...
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Predicting British railway delays using artificial intelligence
Credit: Debra Larson, The Grainger College of Engineering Over the past 20 years, the number of passengers traveling on British train networks has almost doubled...
New analysis method for predicting the risks and effects of immunotherapy
Credit: Mikael Wallerstedt In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University have been able to show differences in how Rituximab, a monoclonal antibody drug, interacts...
Double element co-doped carbon quantum dots enhance photocatalytic efficiency
Credit: Authors In a paper published in NANO, researchers from Nanjing Tech University proposed a theory which attributes the photocatalytic efficiency enhancement of Phosphorus and...
‘The robot made me do it’: Robots encourage risk-taking behaviour in people
Credit: University of Southampton New research has shown robots can encourage people to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if...
Novel cathode design significantly improves performance of next-generation battery
Credit: HKUST A team led by Cheong Ying Chan Professor of Engineering and Environment Prof. ZHAO Tianshou, Chair Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and...
OHSU physician honored for co-invention of eye-imaging technology
David Huang, M.D., Ph.D., recognized by Sanford and Susan Greenberg Prize to End BlindnessCredit: OHSU/John Valls An ophthalmologist and researcher at Oregon Health & Science...
Potential extreme condition history detector – recoverable PL achieved in pyrochlore
Credit: Yongsheng Zhao Photoluminescence (PL) is light emission from a substance after the absorption of photons stimulated by temperature, electricity, pressure, or chemistry doping. An international team of scientists led by Dr. Wenge Yang from Center for High...
Researchers find why ‘lab-made’ proteins have unusually high temperature stability
Credit: NINS/IMS Bioengineers have found why proteins that are designed from scratch tend to be more tolerant to high temperatures than proteins found in nature....
Flavors added to vaping devices can damage the heart
The vape flavorings so popular with kids and young adults are cardiotoxic and disrupt the heart's normal electrical activity, a University of South Florida Health...
Pizza can help address the dark matter mystery?
A cavity partitioned into multiple identical cells provides a highly efficient path to high-frequency axion dark matter searchesCredit: IBS Despite its vanishingly tiny mass, the...
Thermal energy storage the key to reducing agricultural food pollution
Credit: UniSA University of South Australia thermal energy researcher Professor Frank Bruno has been awarded almost $1 million by the Federal Government to find a...
Researchers control multiple wavelengths of light from a single source
Credit: Professor Do Hyun Kim, KAIST KAIST researchers have synthesized a collection of nanoparticles, known as carbon dots, capable of emitting multiple wavelengths of light...
Scientists say farewell to Daya Bay site, proceed with final data analysis
In a special ceremony, scientists begin shutdown of successful neutrino experimentCredit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment collaboration - which made a...
Artificial intelligence improves control of powerful plasma accelerators
Credit: Rob Shalloo Researchers have used AI to control beams for the next generation of smaller, cheaper accelerators for research, medical and industrial applications. Experiments...
