Germanium’s semiconducting and optical properties probed under pressure
Credit: Haidong Zhang Washington, DC--Germanium may not be a household name like silicon, its group-mate on the periodic table, but ...
Streamlining the Internet of Things and other cyber-physical systems
Credit: Michigan Tech, Sarah Bird Sometimes referred to as the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems vary from phones to self-driving ...
Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen?
Credit: Jon Husson and Shanan Peters/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- For the development of animals, nothing -- with the exception of ...
AMPK — the enzyme that makes physical activity healthy
ampk Physical activity benefits diabetics and others with insulin resistance. One of the reasons is that a single bout of ...
Rolling out an e-sticker revolution
Credit: © 2016 KAUST The healthcare industry forecasts that our wellbeing in the future will be monitored by wearable wirelessly ...
Relationship between patients with clinical auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder
Hearing loss - a form of auditory neuropathy - is the most prevalent sensory disease in humans, caused by a ...
Random access memory on a low energy diet
Credit: Illustration: T. Kosub/HZDR Memory chips are among the most basic components in computers. The random access memory is where ...
Economics made simple with physics models
How would you go about understanding how markets can suddenly be gripped by panic? To physicists, using a model originally ...
Think chicken — think intelligent, caring and complex
Credit: Farm Sanctuary Chickens are not as clueless or "bird-brained" as people believe them to be. They have distinct personalities ...
Infant’s prolonged infection reveals mutation that helps bacteria tolerate antibiotics
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Peter Barta The quest to understand a prolonged infection in an infant being ...
Chemically modified insulin is available more quickly
Replacing a hydrogen atom by an iodine atom in insulin, the hormone retains its efficacy but is available more rapidly ...
The beating heart of solar energy
Credit: Lukas Bereuter The notion of using solar cells placed under the skin to continuously recharge implanted electronic medical devices ...
Asian scientist launches Asia’s first supercomputing magazine
Credit: Asian Scientist Publishing Pte Ltd Singapore (Jan. 3, 2017) - Singapore-based publisher Asian Scientist Publishing Pte Ltd has launched ...
NTU and German scientists turn memory chips into processors to speed up computing tasks
Credit: Wonjoo Kim, Peter Grünberg Institut 7, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH A team of international scientists have found a way to ...
First experimental proof of a 70 year old physics theory
Credit: IBS PARK Je-Geun, Associate Director at the Center for Correlated Electron Systems, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), ...
Technology for diagnosing vestibular function disorders created in Kaunas
(Kaunas University of Technology) Researchers of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) have joined ...
Leading cancer researcher to receive honor from the Queen
Professor Jack Cuzick from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) will be appointed a Commander of the Order of the ...
Targeting legumain as a novel therapeutic strategy in cancers
Credit: Dr. Chun Wai Mai et al, Bentham Science Publishers Legumain (LGMN), or asparaginyl endopeptidase, is a newly identified lysosomal ...
The emergence of a new dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia
Philadelphia, PA, January 2, 2017 - Biological Psychiatry presents a special issue, "The Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia", dedicated to recent ...
A new direction in ophthalmic development: Nanoparticle drug delivery systems
Most ophthalmic diseases are usually treated with topically administered drug formulations (e.g. eye drops). Their main disadvantage is the short ...
