Does cough syrup really work? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 2017 -- What do you do when you have a bad cough? If you reach for the...
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One step closer to reality: Devices that convert heat into electricity
Credit: Imaging by Isabel Boona, OSU Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis; Left image prepared by Renee Ripley. Courtesy of The Ohio State University. COLUMBUS,...
Quantum simulation technique yields topological soliton state in SSH model
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois Topological insulators, an exciting, relatively new class of materials, are capable of carrying electricity along the edge of...
The researchers created a tiny laser using nanoparticles
Credit: Antti Paraoanu Researchers at Aalto University, Finland are the first to develop a plasmonic nanolaser that operates at visible light frequencies and uses so-called...
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 it has great potential for...
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 cars, from airplane controls to...
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 DNA -- may be more...
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 physical activity increases the effectiveness...
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 networked sensors. Manufacturing such devices...
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 variety of genetic and environmental...
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 processors temporarily store their data,...
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 developed to explain magnetism might...
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 and can outmaneuver one another....
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 treated for leukemia has led...
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 to the organism. Researchers at...
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