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World's Smallest Propeller Could Be Used for Microscopic Medicine
July 29, 2014 — Scientists have created robots that are only nanometers in length, small enough to maneuver inside the human body and possibly inside human ... full story -
Vision-Correcting Display Makes Reading Glasses So Yesterday
July 29, 2014 — Researchers are developing vision-correcting displays that can compensate for a viewer's visual impairments to create sharp images without the need for glasses or contact lenses. The technology ... full story -
Mysterious Molecules in Space: Silicon-Capped Hydrocarbons May Be Source of 'Diffuse Interstellar Bands'
July 29, 2014 — New research has offered a tantalizing new possibility in the realm of interstellar molecules and diffuse interstellar bands: these mysterious molecules may be silicon-capped hydrocarbons like SiC3H, ... full story -
'Killer Sperm' Prevents Mating Between Worm Species
July 29, 2014 — Most cross-species mating is merely unsuccessful in producing offspring. However, when researchers mated Caenorhabditis worms of different species, they found that the lifespan of the female worms ... full story -
The Quantum Cheshire Cat: Can Neutrons Be Located at a Different Place Than Their Own Spin?
July 29, 2014 — Can neutrons be located at a different place than their own spin? A quantum experiment demonstrates a new kind of quantum paradox. The Cheshire Cat featured in Lewis Caroll's novel "Alice ... full story -
Do Your Stem Cells Sound Like Cancer? While-You-Wait, Non-Invasive Cancer Diagnosis by Converting Stem Cell Data Into Sound
July 29, 2014 — Converting stem cell data into sounds could enable GPs to make instant, non-invasive cancer diagnoses during a routine check-up. A recent study shows how data sonification (where data is conveyed as ... full story -
Optimum Inertial Self-Propulsion Design for Snowman-Like Nanorobot
July 29, 2014 — A new study investigates the effects of small but finite inertia on the propulsion of micro and nano-scale swimming machines. Scale plays a major role in locomotion. Swimming microorganisms, such as ... full story -
Microscopic Rowing -- Without a Cox: Cells' Whip-Like Appendages Can Synchronize Their Movements
July 29, 2014 — New research shows that the whip-like appendages on many types of cells are able to synchronize their movements solely through interactions with the fluid that surrounds ... full story -
Physicists Unlock Nature of High-Temperature Superconductivity
July 28, 2014 — Physicists have identified the 'quantum glue' that underlies a promising type of superconductivity -- a crucial step towards the creation of energy superhighways that conduct electricity ... full story -
Learning the Smell of Fear: Mothers Teach Babies Their Own Fears Via Odor, Animal Study Shows
July 28, 2014 — Babies can learn what to fear in the first days of life just by smelling the odor of their distressed mothers’, new research suggests. And not just “natural” fears: If a mother experienced ... full story -
New Meaning to Refrigerator Magnets: Magnets May Act as Wireless Cooling Agents
July 28, 2014 — The magnets cluttering the face of your refrigerator may one day be used as cooling agents, according to a new theory. A magnetically driven refrigerator would require no moving parts, unlike ... full story -
Google Searches May Hold Key to Future Market Crashes, Researchers Find
July 28, 2014 — A team of researchers has developed a method to automatically identify topics that people search for on Google before subsequent stock market ... full story -
Glow in Space Is Evidence of a Hot Bubble in Our Galaxy
July 28, 2014 — A recent study shows that the emission is dominated by the local hot bubble of gas -- 1 million degrees -- with, at most, 40 percent of emission originating within the solar system. The findings ... full story -
Building 'Invisible' Materials With Light
July 28, 2014 — A new technique which uses light like a needle to thread long chains of particles could help bring sci-fi concepts such as cloaking devices one step closer to ... full story -
Magnets for Fusion Energy: High-Temperature Superconductor Achieves New World Record for Electrical Current
July 25, 2014 — Scientists have achieved an electrical current of 100,000 amperes, which is by far the highest in the world, by using the new idea of assembling the state-of-the-art yttrium-based high-temperature ... full story -
Nanoparticle 'Alarm Clock' Tested to Awaken Immune Systems Put to Sleep by Cancer
July 25, 2014 — Researchers are exploring ways to wake up the immune system so it recognizes and attacks invading cancer cells. One pioneering approach uses nanoparticles to jumpstart the body’s ability to fight ... full story -
Smartphone Experiment Tracks Whether Our Life Story Is Written in Our Gut Bacteria
July 25, 2014 — Life events such as visiting another country or contracting a disease cause a significant shift in the make-up of the gut microbiota -- the community of bacteria living in the digestive system, ... full story -
Bacteria Manipulate Salt to Build Shelters to Hibernate
July 25, 2014 — For the first time, researchers have detected an unknown interaction between microorganisms and salt. When Escherichia coli cells are introduced into a droplet of salt water that is left to dry, ... full story -
'Light Pollution' May Affect Love Lives of Birds in the Viennese Forests
July 25, 2014 — Artificial light in cities exerts negative effects on humans, animals, and their environment. In an ongoing research project, behavioral biologists are investigating how blue tits in the Viennese ... full story -
Steam Energy from the Sun: New Spongelike Structure Converts Solar Energy Into Steam
July 24, 2014 — A new material structure generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure -- a layer of graphite flakes and an underlying carbon foam -- is a porous, insulating material structure that floats on ... full story
- World's smallest propeller could be used for microscopic medicine
- Vision-correcting display makes reading glasses so yesterday
- Mysterious molecules in space: Silicon-capped hydrocarbons may be source of 'diffuse interstellar bands'
- 'Killer sperm' prevents mating between worm species
- The Quantum Cheshire Cat: Can neutrons be located at a different place than their own spin?
- Do your stem cells sound like cancer? While-you-wait, non-invasive cancer diagnosis by converting stem cell data into sound
- Optimum inertial self-propulsion design for snowman-like nanorobot
- Microscopic rowing -- without a cox: Cells' whip-like appendages can synchronize their movements
- Physicists unlock nature of high-temperature superconductivity
- Learning the smell of fear: Mothers teach babies their own fears via odor, animal study shows
- New meaning to refrigerator magnets: Magnets may act as wireless cooling agents
- Google searches may hold key to future market crashes, researchers find
- Glow in space is evidence of a hot bubble in our galaxy
- Building 'invisible' materials with light
- Magnets for fusion energy: High-temperature superconductor achieves new world record for electrical current
- Nanoparticle 'alarm clock' tested to awaken immune systems put to sleep by cancer
- Smartphone experiment tracks whether our life story is written in our gut bacteria
- Bacteria manipulate salt to build shelters to hibernate
- 'Light pollution' may affect love lives of birds in the Viennese Forests
- Steam energy from the sun: New spongelike structure converts solar energy into steam
- Microbes make the sake brewery
- Moose drool inhibits growth of toxic fungus
- Synchronization of North Atlantic, North Pacific preceded abrupt warming, end of ice age
- DNA mostly 'junk?' Only 8.2 percent of human DNA is 'functional', study finds
- Artificial intelligence identifies the musical progression of the Beatles
- Joblessness could kill you, but recessions could be good for your health
- A reward is valued more if you choose it yourself: New quirky byproduct of learning from reward
- Voice for radio? New research reveals it's in the cords
- Warning: Birthdays can be bad for your health
- Newly discovered gut virus lives in half the world's population
- Four-billion-year-old chemistry in cells today
- Smarter than a first-grader? Crows can perform as well as 7- to 10-year-olds on cause-and-effect water displacement tasks
- Eco-pottery product from water treatment sludge
- Vasculature of the hive: How honey bees stay cool
- Spinach could lead to alternative energy more powerful than Popeye
- Bird 'backpacks' put wood thrush migration on the map
- The physics of lead guitar playing
- Dog jealousy: Study suggests primordial origins for the 'green-eyed monster'
- Dead body feeding larvae useful in forensic investigations
- Wide-faced men negotiate nearly $2,200 larger signing bonus
- Showers may be linked to Crohn's disease, say researchers
- New approach in search for extraterrestrial intelligence: Target alien polluters
- Intestinal parasites are 'old friends,' researchers argue
- Can machines think? Misidentification of humans as machines in Turing tests
- Satellite galaxies put astronomers in a spin
- Virtual humans as models: Say goodbye to Naomi, Kate and Claudia ... Enter 'Ava'
- Human parasite Leishmania is a probiotic for the fly that carries it
- The electric slide dance of DNA knots
- In asthma, it's not just what you smell, but what you think you smell
- Therapeutic bacteria prevent obesity in mice, study finds
- African elephant genome suggests they are superior smellers
- Ultrasonically propelled nanorods spin dizzyingly fast
- NASA's Fermi finds a 'transformer' pulsar
- Bats use polarized light to navigate: First mammal known to use polarization patterns in the sky to navigate
- Law of physics governs airplane 'evolution': Constructal law explains progression of passenger jets, sets guidelines for future aircraft
- Nostalgia effect: Do consumers spend more when thinking about the past?
- Asian genes in European pigs result in more piglets
- Fly-inspired sound detector: New device based on a fly's freakishly acute hearing for futuristic hearing aids
- Meerkats' sinister side is secret to their success, study shows
- New York squirrels are nuts about city life
- Creating optical cables out of thin air
- Boosting the force of empty space: Theorists propose way to amplify force of vacuum fluctuations
- Innovative system anticipates driver fatigue in the vehicle to prevent accidents
- 'Moral victories' might spare you from losing again
- Mammoth and mastodon behavior was less roam, more stay at home
- Bacteria swim with whole body, not just propellers
- Try, try again? Study says no: Trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language, neuroscientists find
- Parents rank their obese children as 'very healthy'
- Does a work-out give you a bad hair day? Overcoming barriers to physical activity for African-American women
- New research links bad diet to loss of smell
- Seals forage at offshore wind farms
- Science and art bring back to life 300-million-year-old specimens of a primitive reptile-like vertebrate
- Mysterious dance of dwarf galaxies may force a cosmic rethink
- Children as young as three recognize 'cuteness' in faces of people, animals
- Fecal transplants let packrats eat poison
- Healing the heart with fat? 18-HEPE might help, study suggests
- New technique maps life's effects on our DNA: Powerful single-cell technique to study environmental effects on DNA
- Oceans vital for possibility for alien life
- Astronauts to test free-flying 'housekeeper' robots
- Getting a grip on robotic grasp: New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers
- Revealed: The mystery behind starling flocks
- Nature's strongest glue comes unstuck
- Choosing cheese: Research identifies microbial communities in cheese
- Lunar pits could shelter astronauts, reveal details of how 'man in the moon' formed
- Scientists experimentally re-create conditions deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter and many exo-planets
- When is a molecule a molecule? Scientists watch fast electron jumps in exploding molecules
- Study led by indigenous people uncovers grizzly bear 'highway' in coastal British Columbia
- Earth-like soils on Mars? Ancient fossilized soils potentially found deep inside impact crater suggest microbial life
- Scientists track gene activity when honey bees do and don't eat honey: Significant differences depending on diet
- Is the universe a bubble? Let's check: Making the multiverse hypothesis testable
- Eye movements reveal difference between love and lust
- Anti-tank missile detector joins fight against malaria
- Preventing foodborne illness naturally: With cinnamon
- Danish DNA could be key to happiness
- Increased levels of the body's own cannabinoids impair embryonic brain development
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