‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas
Credit: Virgil Andrei A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an 'artificial leaf' that uses only sunlight,...
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New lightweight, portable robotic suit to increase running and walking performance
Newly developed robot suit made of fabric vest and wires to help people with restricted mobility to walk or run more efficientlyCredit: Chung-Ang University While...
A cavity leads to a strong interaction between light and matter
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Researchers have succeeded in creating an efficient quantum-mechanical light-matter interface using a microscopic cavity. Within this cavity, a...
A complex marriage arrangement: New insights and unanswered questions in plant heterostyly
Landmark review highlights recent advances and unresolved questions as part of a New Phytologist special issue celebrating Prof. Spencer Barrett.Credit: Spencer C. H. Barrett The...
Argonne multidisciplinary team develops probe for battery research: Strength in numbers
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Argonne team develops a powerful technique for probing in three dimensions the crystalline structure of cathode materials at the nanoscale. One...
HALO measurement campaign: Climate change in the southern hemisphere
KIT, DLR, FZJ, and the Universities of Mainz and Frankfurt coordinate measurement campaign with the HALO research aircraft to study the southern atmosphere and its...
Porous polymer coatings dynamically control light and heat
New inexpensive, scalable design takes advantage of the optical switchability of porous polymers; could be used for heating, cooling, and lighting buildings, as well as...
Researchers watch quantum knots untie
After first reporting the existence of quantum knots, Aalto University & Amherst College researchers now report how the knots behaveCredit: Image credit: Tuomas Ollikainen/Aalto University...
Symbol of change for AI development
Credit: 2019 Maxat Kulmanov A mathematical framework that bridges the gap between high-level human-readable knowledge and statistical data has been developed by a KAUST team...
Ceramic industry should use carbon reducing cold sintering process says new research
Credit: University of Warwick A new techno-economic analysis, by a team led by a researcher from WMG at the University of Warwick, shows that the...
GAS7 protein allows cells to eat
Credit: Shiro Suetsugu Without hands or feet, a single human cell has little to protect itself from surrounding threats like bacteria or viruses. In this...
Atomic images reveal unusually many neighbors for some oxygen atoms
Credit: © Christoph Hofer and Jannik Meyer, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 The identification of new chemical bonds is crucial for the design of new material...
Male deer stain their bellies according to their competitive context
Credit: University of Córdoba When it is time for mating season, the period when red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus) are in heat, the male deer...
A technology to transform 2D planes into 3D soft and flexible structures
A technology to transform 2D planes into 3D soft and flexible structures by engineering adhesion between thin-filmsCredit: DGIST DGIST announced that Professor Sohee Kim's research...
Forests on the radar
Credit: Bavarian Forest National Park The quantity and diversity of plants and animals, especially insects, is decreasing, also in Germany. For this reason, science would...