No strings attached for underwater video system
Credit: © 2017 KAUST A flexible and cost-effective technology for streaming high-quality underwater video images has been developed by researchers at KAUST by improving the...
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‘Handedness’ in scale-eating fish: Nature and nurture
Credit: Yuichi Takeuchi Nagoya, Japan - The preference for using one side of the body over the other, as observed typically in human handedness, is...
Filtering molecules from the water or air with nanomembranes
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University Free-standing carbon membranes that are a millionth of a millimetre thin: these are a special research field of Professor Dr. Armin...
Self-healing gold particles
Credit: Photo: KIT Self-healing materials are able to repair autonomously defects, such as scratches, cracks or dents, and resume their original shape. For this purpose,...
New inhibitor brings new hope
Credit: Source: Maurer Lab Scientists from the cluster of excellence BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies at the University of Freiburg and the Freiburg University...
Could interstellar ice provide the answer to birth of DNA?
Researchers at the University of York have shown that molecules brought to earth in meteorite strikes could potentially be converted into the building blocks of...
Prellis Biologics receives funding to create human organs with 3-D printing
Credit: Prellis Biologics San Francisco, CA--September 14, 2017--Wait lists for human organ transplants could be entirely eliminated through patent-pending technologies developed by Prellis Biologi..
Google Glass app helps autistic children with social interactions
A prototype software application, to be used with the optical head-mounted display Google Glass, has been designed as a social-skills coach for children with autism...
Synaptic receptor mobility: Discovery of a new mechanism for controlling memory
Researchers in Bordeaux recently discovered a new mechanism for storing information in synapses and a means of controlling the storage process. The breakthrough moves science...
Light at the end of the tunnel: Restored forest now shelters dozens of endangered species
Credit: Peter Neuenschwander During the last twenty years, scientists worked hard to protect and restore the scattered patches of a dilapidated forest and its surroundings...
Millions from the ERC for research into the possible harmful effects of acrylamide
Each year the ERC gives funding to researchers from all over Europe. The so-called ERC Starting Grants of EUR 1.5 million are given to young...
Threatened Alabama snail renamed after a case of mistaken identity
Credit: Thomas Tarpley Alabama has some of the highest diversity of freshwater snails in the world, but many snails are at high risk of extinction....
Toward ending an environmental nightmare
Credit: Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Stephen Luby's epiphany came to him 30,000 feet up in the air. The Stanford epidemiologist was flying over...
Tiny fighters in sediments determine success of invasive marine plants
Credit: Image: Paul Gribben/UNSW Armies of microbes that are invisible to the naked eye battle it out to determine whether exotic marine plants successfully invade...
Once-abundant ash tree and antelope species face extinction — IUCN Red List
Gland, Switzerland, 14 September 2017 (IUCN) - North America's most widespread and valuable ash tree species are on the brink of extinction due to an...
