Promising results obtained with a new electrocatalyst that reduces the need for platinum
Credit: Aalto University Platinum is a very expensive metal and it is therefore one of the bottlenecks hindering the growth of renewable energy. Platinum is...
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Argon is not the ‘dope’ for metallic hydrogen
Credit: Image courtesy of Cheng Ji. Washington, DC--Hydrogen is both the simplest and the most-abundant element in the universe, so studying it can teach scientists...
Connected dolls and tell-tale teddy bears: Why we need to manage the Internet of Toys
Action is needed to monitor and control the emerging Internet of Toys, concludes a new report by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC). Privacy...
Penn Program in Environmental Humanities’ event explores the idea of an ‘Ecotopian Toolkit’
Prompted in part by the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia, the "Ecotopian Toolkit" conference at the University of Pennsylvania will celebrate how utopian imaginaries...
Printable device points toward sensor-laden robot skin
In this age of smartphones and tablet computers, touch-sensitive surfaces are everywhere. They're also brittle, as people with cracked phone screens everywhere can attest. Covering...
UVA finds ANOTHER immune system link science said didn’t exist
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System The University of Virginia School of Medicine has again shown that a part of the body thought to...
Clot or bleeding?
The international CLUE Working Group studied the risk of thrombosis and severe haemorrhage after urological cancer operations and other forms of urological surgery. The groups'...
New era in precision medicine for pancreatic cancer
The development of new treatments for pancreatic cancer is set to be transformed by a network of clinical trials, aiming to find the right trial...
Boosting natural brain opioids may be a better way to treat anxiety: Research
Published in Nature Communications by University of Sydney scholars, the findings suggest medications that boost the effect of natural brain opioids might be a better...
New portal to unveil the dark sector of the Universe
Credit: IBS Once upon a time, the Universe was just a hot soup of particles. In those days, together with visible particles, other particles to...
Researchers discover new type of memory effect in Transition Metal Oxides
Transition metal oxides (TMO) are extensively studied, technologically important materials, due to their complex electronic interactions, resulting in a large variety of collective phenomena. Memory...
Membrane lipids hop in and out of rafts in the blink of an eye
Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS Researchers in Japan, India and France have found that molecules move into and out of a specialized region of the cell...
A robust, 2-ion quantum logic gate that operates in a microsecond is designed
This theoretical research explores what could be achieved beyond current technological limitations to further motivate experimental progress. Together with qubits (the quantum version of the...
Where does laser energy go after being fired into plasma?
Credit: Dr Enrico Brunetti, produced with software by OSIRIS. An outstanding conundrum on what happens to the laser energy after beams are fired into plasma...
USDA awards $5 million for fellowships for research and extension experiences
WASHINGTON, March 22, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced more than $5 million in...
