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Most people are concerned about the prospect of their social media accounts being hacked, but a new study finds that it's actually people we know...

The same mechanical principles underlie whether the DVD player skips and whether the most advanced surgical robot will rotate its scalpel arm to the wrong...

Credit: Wolfgang Däuble / CeMM (Vienna, 19 January 2017) Genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 "gene scissors" is a powerful tool for biological discovery and for identifying...

Credit: University of Nottingham Engineers at The University of Nottingham are developing lightweight automotive components using new additive manufacturing processes to boost vehicle fuel efficien..

Credit: MIPT's Press Office Researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed a theory that gives the possibility to precisely predict the...

New research from a beach-roaming biomechanics engineer paints a surprisingly industrious picture of limpets -- the marine snails that are abundantly plastered on rocks at...

Credit: Andrew Grieshop Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have found that while advanced wood-burning cookstoves can provide...

Credit: photo/©: Georg Schneider, JGU As self-evident as it is that matter exists, its origins are just as mysterious. According to the principles of particle...

The membrane of a cell is composed of a lipid bilayer. Lipids are good chemical and electrical insulators, which are ideally suited to separating the...

Water purification processes usually make use of robust membranes for filtering off contaminants while working at high pressures. Can materials employing water as major component...

There is value in starting off patients with high blood pressure on an all-in-one pill. In the long run, it may help them stick to...

Credit: Scienta Omicron Research by scientists at Swansea University is helping to meet the challenge of incorporating nanoscale structures into future semiconductor devices that will...

Credit: Claude Lavoie A new study published today in Botany demonstrates how herbaria can be valuable resources for studying the impact over time of large...

Some of the most important crops risk substantial damage from rising temperatures. To better assess how climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions will...

Researchers have found a way to trigger the innate, but previously hidden, ability of graphene to act as a superconductor - meaning that it can...