Un equipo de investigación de la Universidad de Córdoba (España) ha desarrollado un método con el que amplía el rendimiento de las fotoeléctricas sin requerir un gasto extra para las…
Researchers from the Division of Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have developed a new technique that utilizes filter paper to cryopreserve human cells, offering scientists an efficient alternative to…
Oxygen in cancer tumors is known to be a major factor that helps radiation therapy be successful. Hypoxia, or starvation of oxygen, in solid tumors is also thought to be…
We all know we should fly less as a way to reduce our individual and collective effect on the global climate. But transforming that vague understanding into concrete reasons for…
The world scientific community is waging a difficult and prolonged war on cancer. New research in the field of immunogenic cell death can extend the area of drugs application and…
A study out of the University of Florida offers a comparison between introduced species that attempt to outcompete native plants within an ecosystem and certain native plant species that mimic…
One of the challenges in using machine learning for drug development is to create a process for the computer to extract needed information from a pool of data points. Drug…
A new chemical process described in the journal Nature Communications does in the lab what trees do in nature - it converts carbon dioxide into usable chemicals or fuels. This…
Electrons with 'colleagues' - other leptons - are one of many products of collisions observed in the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. According to theorists, some of these…
Can scrambled eggs unscramble themselves? Well, sort of.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The cytoplasm of ruptured Xenopus frog eggs spontaneously reorganizes into cell-like compartments, according to a…
Engineers from the Military Studies Center at Far Eastern Federal University (MSC FEFU) developed a brand-new concrete with improved impact endurance and up to 40% made of waste: rice husk…
A UC Riverside-led team has created a chemical to help plants hold onto water, which could stem the tide of massive annual crop losses from drought and help farmers grow…
A collaboration led by scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), Japan, has discovered a novel amyloid protein that induces amyloidosis in rats. This new amyloid protein is…
Information security, in online banking for example, often works with a combination of a public key and a private key. The public key is known to everyone, but for creating…
A space-age metal that formed part of the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs could provide a new method of treating cancer tumours selectively using light.<br /> <br /> <br />…
The expression "you are what you eat" has taken on new meaning. In an experiment in fruit flies, or Drosophila melanogaster, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that…
Even the best dermatologists can't diagnose skin cancer by eye, relying on magnifying glasses to examine suspicious blemishes and scalpels to cut tissue for analysis. Now, using shortwave rays used…
In the quest to prove that matter can be produced without antimatter, the GERDA experiment at the Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory in Italy is looking for signs of neutrinoless double…
An international team of researchers has reported a new way to safeguard drones, surveillance cameras and other equipment against laser attacks, which can disable or destroy the equipment. The capability…
A consensus is building that air pollution can cause neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, but how fine, sooty particles cause problems in the brain is still…
Hubble offers a special view of the double star system Eta Carinae's expanding gases glowing in red, white, and blue. This is the highest resolution image of Eta Carinae taken…
A Southwest Research Institute-led team studied the orientation of distant solar system bodies to bolster the "streaming instability" theory of planet formation.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> "One…
Most people think of water as existing in only one of three phases: Solid ice, liquid water, or gas vapor. But matter can exist in many different phases--ice, for example,…
We often look to people's faces for signs of how they're thinking or feeling, trying to gauge whether their eyes are narrowed or widened, whether the mouth is turned up…
Researchers know that exosomes, tiny nanoparticles released from fat cells, travel through the bloodstream and body, regulating a variety of processes, from growth and development to metabolism. The exosomes are…
La Comisión Europea (CE) anunció el viernes pasado que EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (una iniciativa para desarrollar un ecosistema de supercomputación de clase mundial en Europa) ha seleccionado al Barcelona Supercomputing…
By combining 25 years of European Space Agency satellite altimeter measurements and a model of the regional climate, the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) have tracked changes…
Repetition can be useful if you're trying to memorize a poem, master a guitar riff, or just cultivate good habits. When this kind of behavior becomes compulsive, however, it can…
A toxic protein linked to Huntington's disease can move from neuron to neuron through a nanotube tunnel whose construction is initiated by a protein called Rhes, say scientists at Scripps…
Research funded in part by the U.S. Army identified properties in materials that could one day lead to applications such as more powerful data storage devices that continue to hold…
Splash some water on a hot skillet, and you'll often see the droplets sizzle and quickly evaporate. But if you really crank up the heat, something different happens. The droplets…
Improved pest resistance and drought tolerance are among potential benefits of an international effort in which Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their collaborators have produced the clearest picture yet…
Scientists find surprising way to affect information storage properties in metal alloy.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Sometimes scientific discoveries can be found along well-trodden paths. That proved…
A team of Japanese researchers has - for the first time - demonstrated preserving frozen animal cells without a cryoprotectant agent (CPA), a substance that can protect biological material from…
Oxidants found within living organisms are byproducts of metabolism and are essential to wound-healing and immunity. However, when their concentrations become too high, inflammation and tissue damage can occur. University…
An international team of astronomers, including faculty and alumni from UNLV, has discovered a new way to spot when collisions occur in distant galaxies between two neutron stars - incredibly…
A controlled, laboratory approach, along with computer simulations, has helped KAUST researchers to show that bacterial communities can homogenously disperse within aquatic ecosystems even with slow flowing water and the…
In a study of healthy volunteers, National Institutes of Health researchers found that our brains may solidify the memories of new skills we just practiced a few seconds earlier by…
The quest to keep plastic out of landfills and simultaneously satisfy the needs of the food industry is filled with obstacles.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> A biodegradable…
A new paper shows that air temperature is the "smoking gun" behind climate change in the Arctic, according to John Walsh, chief scientist for the UAF International Arctic Research Center.<br…
Gene editing has been a much sought after and controversial technology. Last month, part of the World Health Organization called for an international registry to track all research into editing…
Esta semana, Nature publica su esperado ranking anual de los diez rostros más importantes para la ciencia. “La lista incluye una amplia diversidad de investigadores que han figurado como protagonistas…
Los científicos que analizan la telemetría final enviada por Rosetta el año pasado, inmediatamente antes de que se apagara sobre la superficie del cometa, han reconstruido una última imagen del…
Un estudio del Departamento de Genética, Antropología Física y Fisiología Animal de la UPV/EHU (España) y la School of Archaeology de la Universidad de Oxford mide los isótopos estables de…
La varicela es una enfermedad típica de la infancia que, en la mayoría de los casos, evoluciona en forma benigna y sus síntomas desaparecen a lo sumo en 10 días.…
Una nueva misión exitosa de la compañía SpaceX permitió el 24 de agosto poner en órbita a un satélite de observación de la Tierra llamado FORMOSAT-5. El lanzamiento, a las…