Flat lens opens a broad world of color
Credit: (Image courtesy of Vyshakh Sanjeev/ Harvard SEAS) Last summer, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) announced...
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Turning off the protein tap — A new clue to neurodegenerative disease
Credit: The University of Manchester/Martin Lowe Disabling a part of brain cells that acts as a tap to regulate the flow of proteins has been...
The origin of stem cells
Freiburg plant biologist Prof. Dr. Thomas Laux and his research group have published an article in the journal Developmental Cell presenting initial findings on how...
Commercial weight-loss drug could help treat opioid addiction
Scientists are working to come up with new therapies to curb America's opioid epidemic and aid hospitals, doctors and public health officials in this fight....
NASA finds planets of red dwarf stars may face oxygen loss in habitable zones
Credit: NASA Goddard/Conceptual Image Lab, Michael Lentz, animator/Genna Duberstein, producer The search for life beyond Earth starts in habitable zones, the regions around stars where...
Clint Alfaro receives Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry Best Paper Award 2016
Credit: Clint Alfaro Heidelberg| New York, Feb. 8, 2017 -- Clint Alfaro is the winner of this year's ABC Best Paper Award, presented by the...
New stem cell technique shows promise for bone repair
Credit: UNIST A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has developed a new method of repairing injured bone using stem cells from human bone marrow and...
Horror movie scenes help UCI team identify key brain circuits for processing fear
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 8, 2017 -- Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have identified a key neural pathway in humans that explains how the...
UNIST to engineer dream diodes with a graphene interlayer
Credit: UNIST ULSAN, South Korea--A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has created a new technique that greatly enhances the performance of Schottky Diodes (metal-semiconductor...
Record-breaking material that contracts when heated
Credit: Koshi Takenaka Nagoya, Japan - Machines and devices used in modern industry are required to withstand harsh conditions. When the environmental temperature changes, the...
UNIST to engineer new eco-battery, using seawater
Credit: UNIST UNIST will be working with public organizations in the energy sector to develop a new type of eco-friendly batteries that can store and...
UNIST engineers oxide semiconductor just single atom thick
Credit: UNIST ULSAN, South Korea--A new study, affiliated with UNIST has introduced a novel method for fabrication of world's thinnest oxide semiconductor that is just...
NYU researchers study patients’ genetic and susceptibility risk factors for lymphedema
Each year, about 1.38 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer. Advances in diagnosis and treatment have facilitated a 90-percent, five-year survival rate, among...
‘Corrective glass’ for mass spectrometry imaging
Credit: Benjamin Bartels, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology The chemical analysis of biological tissues with three-dimensional shapes has been a major problem so far....
Scientists argue current climate change models understate the problem
A new study on the relationship between people and the planet shows that climate change is only one of many inter-related threats to the Earth's...
