Spider combs tame unruly nanofibers (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Cribellate spiders spin thousands of tiny nanofibers into sticky threads. To keep from getting caught in their own webs, these spiders...
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Sensor system identifies cause of alarm in hard-to-access industrial plants
Credit: Credit: Oliver Dietze When sensors embedded within industrial plants trigger an alarm at night, maintenance teams have to respond immediately. But there's always the...
A biological mechanism for depression
Location of a modified structural protein may identify depressed individualsCredit: UIC University of Illinois at Chicago researchers report that in depressed individuals there are increased...
Scientists uncover major cause of resistance in solid electrolytes
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Solid electrolyte materials consist of hundreds of thousands of small crystalline regions, called grains, with various orientations. The materials, used in...
The best things come in small packages
Successful application of a miniaturized instrument for carbon dioxide vertical observationsCredit: Pengfei Han Carbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and...
Windows will soon generate electricity, following solar cell breakthrough
Two square metres of solar window will do the same job as a standard rooftop solar panel, Australian researchers say.Credit: Dr Jae Choul Yu Semi-transparent...
ORNL’s Brian Post named SME Young Engineer of the Year
Credit: Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy. Brian Post, a researcher in large-scale additive manufacturing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has...
New study reveals life’s earliest evolution was more complicated than previously suspected
Credit: Credit: S. Shiobara, S. McGlynn, ELSI, CC BY 4.0 Biologists have long hoped to understand the nature of the earliest living organisms on Earth....
Quantum research unifies two ideas offering an alternative route to topological superconductivity
Researchers from University of Copenhagen have discovered a new way of developing topological superconductivity that may provide a useful route toward the use of Majorana...
UC3M spin-off develops a thermographic camera that measures body temperature at a distance
Credit: UC3M A spin-off from the LIR-Infrared Lab (Laboratorio de Sensores, Teledetección e Imagen en el Infrarrojo) at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), SENSIA...
A new way to cool down electronic devices, recover waste heat
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c00800 Using electronic devices for too long can cause them to overheat, which might slow them down, damage...
The future of semiconductors is clear
A clear semiconductor based on tin could improve solar power generationCredit: © 2020 Nakao et al. Mobility is a key parameter for semiconductor performance and...
Behavioral intervention, not lovastatin, improves language skills in youth with fragile X
Researchers recommend focusing on nonmedical interventions while the search for helpful drugs continuesCredit: UC Davis Health A UC Davis Health study found more evidence for...
Gene signature found for poor response to standard chemotherapy in rare uterine cancer
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Women who don't survive a rare and aggressive uterine cancer called uterine serous carcinoma, have high expression of...
Microwaves power new technology for batteries, energy
Credit: Vilas Pol/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - New battery technology involving microwaves may provide an avenue for renewable energy conversion and storage. Purdue University...