Researchers find new way to control light with electric fields
Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a technique for controlling light with electric fields. "Our method is similar to the technique used to...
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eLearning Stakeholders and Researchers Summit 2017 is held in Moscow for the first time
National Research University Higher School of Economics, in cooperation with the global online learning platform Coursera, is holding eLearning Stakeholders and Researchers Summit 2017 (eSTARS)...
MIT researchers engineer shape-shifting food
Credit: Michael Indresano Photography "Don't play with your food" is a saying that MIT researchers are taking with a grain or two of salt. The...
Ag/ZnO-Nanorods Schottky diodes based UV-PDs are fabricated and tested
Credit: NANO In the recent past ZnO has emerged as a promising alternative to Si and GaN in devices like light-emitting diodes (LEDs), photodetectors, and...
Unveiling the quantum necklace
Credit: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University The quantum world is both elegant and mysterious. It is a sphere of existence where the...
Controlling 3-D behavior of biological cells using laser holographic techniques
Credit: KAIST A research team led by Professor YongKeun Park of the Physics Department at KAIST has developed an optical manipulation technique that can freely...
Regenerative medicine researcher’s startup companies give hope to patients
Credit: David Hungate/Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Sometimes it takes a researcher with a flair for entrepreneurship to translate a laboratory breakthrough into a medical...
Summer rainfall in vulnerable African region can be predicted
Summer rainfall in one of the world's most drought-prone regions can now be predicted months or years in advance, climate scientists at the Met Office...
High pressure key to lighter, stronger metal alloys, Stanford scientists find
High pressure could be the key to making advanced metal mixtures that are lighter, stronger and more heat-resistant than conventional alloys, a new study by...
Elsevier adds ClinicalKey to Research4Life access program for developing countries
Philadelphia, PA, May 25, 2017 - Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, will add ClinicalKey to its global research and health...
Development of compound that captures specific alkane gas molecule with its color change
Credit: Kanazawa University A ring-shaped molecule may possess a cavity because of its three-dimensional structure. This cavity can accommodate a guest molecule if its size...
Whales only recently evolved into giants when changing ice, oceans concentrated prey
Credit: Copyright Silverback Films/BBC. The blue whale, which uses baleen to filter its prey from ocean water and can reach lengths of over 100 feet,...
Fighting forgery with paper fingerprints
Fingerprinting official documents could provide a cost-effective way to prevent forgery, new research shows. Scientists from Newcastle University, UK, have found an inexpensive and easy...
Changing climate could have devastating impact on forest carbon storage
Credit: Fotolia New research from a multi-university team of biologists shows what could be a startling drop in the amount of carbon stored in the...
ATS 2017 Wrap-up: Rapid sepsis treatment, predicting mortality after the ICU and more
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Thousands of critical care and pulmonology specialists from across the world gathered this week for the American Thoracic Society...
