Imaging at the speed of light
Credit: Video credit/Matthew Mann/University of Rochester Tiny micro- and nanoscale structures within a material's surface are invisible to the naked eye, but play a big...
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The chemistry of redheads (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, March 14, 2017 -- St. Patrick's Day evokes thoughts of all things often associated with the Irish -- including...
Money, not access, key to resident food choices in ‘food deserts’
A new study from North Carolina State University and Campbell University finds that, while access to healthy foods is a significant challenge, the biggest variable...
Micro-organisms will help African farmers: Soil microbes to the rescue
Credit: Taye Tessema / Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) Sorghum is the fifth most important cereal in the world. In sub-Saharan Africa, many farmers...
Spiders eat astronomical numbers of insects
Credit: David E. Hill, Peckham Society, Simpsonville, South Carolina A new study reveals some stunning estimates about just how much the world's spiders eat annually:...
At mealtime, honey bees prefer country blossoms to city blooms
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Hungry honey bees appear to favor flowers in agricultural areas over those in neighboring urban areas. The discovery has implications for urban...
Portable 3-D ultrasound will enable fieldside, roadside screening of head injury
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 14, 2017) - The thin, flexible sheath that protects and insulates our optic nerve is also a window into...
Sonic cyber attack shows security holes in ubiquitous sensors
ANN ARBOR -- Sound waves could be used to hack into critical sensors in a broad array of technologies including smartphones, automobiles, medical devices and...
New model explains the formation of supermassive black holes in the very early universe
Credit: Credit: J. Wise (Georgia Tech) & J. Regan (Dublin City). Observations in the past decade have demonstrated that extremely massive supermassive black holes were...
Switching oxygen on and off
Credit: TU Wien Oxygen atoms are highly reactive, yet the world does not spontaneously burn, even though everything is surrounded by this aggressive element. Why?...
Why do people switch their language?
Credit: Copyright: Katharina Prochazka, University of Vienna In physics, the movement of particles over time and space is called diffusion. Models of physical diffusion can...
Beyond excellence
«Europe should do more and not only for ground-breaking research». Giorgio Parisi, theoretical physicist at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", winner of the Dirac...
Yuan Chang and Patrick Moore win prize for the discovery of two cancer viruses
FRANKFURT am MAIN. Two Americans, Yuan Chang and Patrick S. Moore, will receive the 2017 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize today in Frankfurt's Paulskirche...
Scientists say they are a step closer to solving chronic bladder diseases
Using human cells, they have mapped how different proteins bind along the DNA to control which genes are active during barrier formation. The inside of...
Bowel cancer medication could help combat early-onset Parkinson’s disease
People with certain forms of early-onset Parkinson's disease could potentially benefit from taking a medication used to treat certain forms of cancer, according to new...