Strathclyde-led research develops world’s highest gain high-power laser amplifier
Credit: University of Strathclyde The world's highest gain high power laser amplifier - by many orders of magnitude - has been developed in research led...
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New £3.5 million microscope and ion accelerator now operational
(University of Huddersfield) THE completion of a £3.5 million research facility means that the University of Huddersfield is established as one of Europe's leading centres...
New photocatalyst speeds up the conversion of carbon dioxide into chemical resources
Credit: DGIST DGIST's joint research team has developed a new titania photocatalyst that converts carbon dioxide into methane three times more efficiently than the existing...
Nagoya University researchers break down plastic waste
Credit: Nagoya Univesity Nagoya, Japan - What to do proteins and Kevlar have in common? Both feature long chain molecules that are strung together by...
Laptops and tablets in the classroom: How to integrate electronic devices in the university
Researchers from the University of Seville have published the study "To take or not to take the laptop or tablet to classes, that is the...
Argonne scientists make vanadium into a useful catalyst for hydrogenation
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Just as Cinderella turned from a poor teenager into a magnificent princess with the aid of a little magic, scientists at...
Self-healing catalyst films for hydrogen production
Chemists at the Centre for Electrochemical Sciences at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed a catalyst with self-healing properties. Under the challenging conditions of water electrolysis for...
Bioelectricity new weapon to fight dangerous infection
Credit: Jean-Francois Pare/Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (May 26, 2017, 5 a.m. EDT)--Changing the natural electrical signaling that exists in cells outside the nervous system can...
Designer viruses stimulate the immune system to fight cancer
Credit: © UNIGE / Doron Merkler Swiss scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and the University of Basel have created artificial viruses that...
Study takes step toward mass-producible quantum computers
Quantum computers are experimental devices that offer large speedups on some computational problems. One promising approach to building them involves harnessing nanometer-scale atomic defects in...
Researchers studying century-old drug in potential new approach to autism
Credit: Science Museum, London. In a small, randomized Phase I/II clinical trial (SAT1), researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine say a...
Genetic test for anal cancer could identify those at high risk
A new test, based on a patient's epigenetics*, could be an accurate and inexpensive way to find and treat those at highest risk of anal...
Open-access genetic screening for hereditary breast cancer is feasible and effective
Ashkenazi Jewish women are known to have a predisposition to the inherited breast cancers BRCA1 and BRCA2, but currently genetic testing in this group is...
Marine species distribution shifts will continue under ocean warming
Scientists using a high-resolution global climate model and historical observations of species distributions on the Northeast U.S. Shelf have found that commercially important species will...
Mind-controlled device helps stroke patients retrain brains to move paralyzed hands
Credit: Leuthardt lab Stroke patients who learned to use their minds to open and close a device fitted over their paralyzed hands gained some control...
