How Venus flytrap triggers digestion
Credit: (Picture: Sönke Scherzer/Dirk Becker) Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is a carnivorous plant. Catching its prey, mainly insects, with a trapping structure formed by its...
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Quantum mechanics is complex enough, for now…
Credit: Copyright: MSc. Jonas Schmöle, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna Quantum mechanics is based on a set of mathematical rules, describing how the quantum...
Probing into the molecular requirements for antioxidant activity
Free radicals are derived either from normal essential metabolic processes in the human body or from external sources such as exposure to environmental xenobiotics. A...
Molecular libraries for organic light-emitting diodes
Credit: AG Matthias Wagner The rising demand for increasingly sophisticated smartphones, tablets and home cinemas is a growing challenge for display technology. At present, organic...
Northeastern researchers’ discovery could aid in detecting nuclear threats
Just one example: In its 2017 Budget-in-Brief, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security lists among its priorities allocating $103.9 million for radiological and nuclear detection...
Plant’s parent genes cooperate in shaping their child
Credit: ITbM, Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - A group of plant biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya University, have reported in...
ALIVER — an EU funded project to develop a liver dialysis machine revealed at ILC 2017
April 21, 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) today announced that ALIVER will be unveiled at The...
Nanoimprinted hyperlens array: Paving the way for practical super-resolution imaging
Credit: Image provided by POSTECH The concept of a perfect lens that can produce immaculate and flawless images has been the Holy Grail of lens...
Electrochemical performance of lithium-ion capacitors
Credit: Nanchang University How do internal short circuit? Researcher Minho Kim has published his paper "A fast and efficient pre-doping approach to high energy density...
Nonlinear waves in bounded media
Credit: World Scientific Waves are ubiquitous in nature, allowing us to see, hear and observe. Because of such pervasiveness, the need to study how waves...
Princeton course inspires textbook on matrix structural analysis & finite element methods
Credit: World Scientific Princeton's Dr. Jean H. Prévost and Serguei Bagrianski have released a book with World Scientific, entitled, An Introduction to Matrix Structural Analysis...
Ethereum –fFoundations of cryptocurrency and blockchain programming
Credit: apress Cryptocurrencies are on the rise, and blockchain protocols are taking the world by storm. Ethereum is an open-source public blockchain featuring smart contracts...
Antibody delivery mediated by recombinant adeno-associated virus
Monoclonal antibody (mAb) based-therapies have revolutionized treatments of cancer and autoimmune diseases because of their specificity and limited toxicity. Vectored-antibody delivery through the use..
Heine H. Hansen award given to Rafal Dziadziuszko
Lugano, Switzerland, 21 April 2017 - The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) have...
Possible hints of New Physics found in a global analysis of data from several experiments
An international research team has presented a global analysis of a set of observables related to one type of rare B decays measured in different...
