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Credit: Julie Demars In 1713, Johann Sebastian Bach once wrote a delightful cantata, "Sheep May Safely Graze," whose opening lyric ...

Gray tin exhibits novel topological electronic properties in 3-D

Credit: Physics Illinois In a surprising new discovery, alpha-tin, commonly called gray tin, exhibits a novel electronic phase when its ...

New drug delivery system shows promise for fighting solid tumors

PORTLAND, Ore. - A new cancer-drug delivery system shows the ability to exploit the oxygen-poor areas of solid tumors that ...

Scientists engineer sugarcane to produce biodiesel, more sugar for ethanol

Credit: Kathryn Faith/University of Illinois A multi-institutional team led by the University of Illinois have proven sugarcane can be genetically ...

Improving silver nanowires for FTCEs with flash light interactions

Credit: KAIST Daejeon, Korea (April 4, 2017) - Flexible transparent conducting electrodes (FTCEs) are an essential element of flexible optoelectronics ...

DNA double helix structures crystals

For the first time, engineers of Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU) have succeeded in producing complex crystal lattices, so-called clathrates, ...

Electronic control to ensure photovoltaic systems always work at maximum power

Credit: Nuria González (UPV/EHU) After having developed various algorithms and control systems and having applied them in a whole range ...

Touch-sensitive, elastic fibers offer new interface for electronics

Credit: North Carolina State University Researchers from North Carolina State University have created elastic, touch-sensitive fibers that can interface with ...

Researchers develop a new way to study key biological processes

A team of scientists at The University of East Anglia (UEA) has developed a novel way to obtain previously inaccessible ...

Molecules in the body more visible in new detection system, say scientists

Scientists at the University of York have developed a technique that will enhance the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...

Pitt researchers identify new brain pathway that controls hand movements

PITTSBURGH, April 3, 2017 - Picking up a slice of pizza or sending a text message: Scientists long believed that ...

Deploying an ancient defense to kill cancer

Credit: Bo Jungmayer / Fred Hutch News Service A recent small trial in 15 cancer patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcomas ...

Two Penn physicians awarded SU2C Immuno-Oncology Innovative Research Grants

PHILADELPHIA - Two doctors in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded Immuno-Oncology Innovative ...

Ethics complicate clinical interpretation & reporting of human genome sequence results

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 3, 2017-Medical use of a patient's genomic sequence information can ...

Solitary perturbations in the steep boundary of magnetized toroidal plasma

Throughout the history of mankind, an anthropomorphic figure transcends time and distance to appear repeatedly and consistently wherever man resides. ...

Mapping Ecosystem Services: Collection of theories, methods and practical applications