Lightweight green supercapacitors could charge devices in a jiffy
Texas A&M researchers have designed a new energy storage device that can store a charge up to 900 times greater than state-of-the-art supercapacitors.Credit: Texas A&M...
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University of Huddersfield’s GDRC wins Newton Fund award
he University of Huddersfield's Global Disaster Resilience Centre takes lessons from tsunami warning system research into helping Sri Lanka to plan for and deal with...
Older women with type 2 diabetes have different patterns of blood use in their brains
Pattern relates to sensory motor problems in hands, feetCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston researcher is reporting that the brains of older women...
New subspecies of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly found in the Arctic Circle of Yakutia
Credit: Dr Roman V. Yakovlev An isolated population of the rarest Palaearctic butterfly species: the Arctic Apollo (Parnassius arcticus), turned out to be a new...
Physicists achieve tunable spin wave excitation
Scientists excite magnons in nanostructures with laser pulsesCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center, joined by colleagues from Saratov...
COVID-19 deaths among black essential workers linked to racial disparities
Credit: Charlie Ehlert Racial disparities among essential workers could be a key reason that Black Americans are more likely than whites to contract and die...
Research unravels what makes memories so detailed and enduring
Credit: Matt Udakis In years to come, our personal memories of the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be etched in our minds with precision and...
‘One size fits all’ medication approach doesn’t work in pregnancy
Credit: UniSA New research led by the University of South Australia shows that a blanket approach to prescribing medication during pregnancy may put low birth...
Cashing in on marine byproducts
Seafood shells full of nutrients and flavor -- researchCredit: Flinders University As exploitation of wild fisheries and marine environments threaten food supplies, Flinders University scientists...
Scientists develop low-cost chip to detect presence and quantity of COVID-19 antibodies
Light-sensing technology promises to make COVID-19 antibody testing cheaper, easier, faster and more accurateCredit: OIST Robust and widespread antibody testing has emerged as a key...
Quantum light squeezes the noise out of microscopy signals
Credit: Raphael Pooser, ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used quantum optics to advance state-of-the-art microscopy...
American Heart Association honors UVA endocrinologist for high blood pressure work
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Robert M. Carey, MD, Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, has been named a...
Ecology award for agroecologist
Professor Teja Tscharntke at University of Göttingen receives British Ecological Society's March AwardCredit: University of Göttingen The agroecologist, Professor Teja Tscharntke from the University of...
Plastic can be sustainable
Jena research group receives two million euros to develop intelligent, recyclable plastic materialsCredit: (Photo: Jens Meyer/Uni Jena) (Jena, Germany) Sustainable plastics that have the ability...
Army fields new chemical detection technology
Credit: U.S. Army RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Chemical weapons pose a serious threat to civilian and warfighter lives, but technology from the U.S. Army...