Too green to be true? Researchers develop highly effective method for...
Université Laval researchers have developed a highly effective method for converting CO2 into methanol, which can be used as a low-emissions fuel for vehicles. The team led by Professor...
View ArticleParticle accelerator that can fit on a tabletop opens new chapter for science...
Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have built a tabletop particle accelerator that can generate energies and speeds previously reached only by major facilities that are hundreds of meters...
View ArticleDoes your salad know what time it is? Managing vegetables' 'internal clocks'...
Does your salad know what time it is? It may be healthier for you if it does, according to new research from Rice University and the University of California at Davis.
View ArticlePistil leads pollen in life-and-death dance
Millions of times on a spring day there is a dramatic biomolecular tango where the flower, rather than adorning a dancer's teeth, is the performer. In this dance, the female pistil leads, the male...
View ArticleChlamydia promotes gene mutations
Chlamydia trachomatis is a human pathogen that is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted disease worldwide with more than 90 million new cases of genital infections occurring each year....
View ArticleHubble spots galaxies in close encounter
(Phys.org) —The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this vivid image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142. When two galaxies stray too close to each other they begin to interact,...
View ArticleResearchers propose new method for achieving nonlinear optical effects
Picture two light beams intersecting one another in space. When the beams touch one another, does the light bend? Reflect? Combine into a single beam?
View ArticleFacebook introduces video on Instagram (Update 2)
Facebook is adding video to its popular photo-sharing app Instagram, following in the heels of Twitter's growing video-sharing app, Vine.
View ArticleHow did a third radiation belt appear in the Earth's upper atmosphere?
(Phys.org) —Since the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in in the Earth's upper atmosphere in 1958, space scientists have believed that these belts consisted of two doughnut-shaped rings of...
View ArticleUncovering quantum secret in photosynthesis
The efficient conversion of sunlight into useful energy is one of the challenges which stand in the way of meeting the world's increasing energy demand in a clean, sustainable way without relying on...
View ArticleThe Red Queen was right: We have to run to keep in place
Biologists quote Lewis Carroll when arguing that survival is a constant struggle to adapt and evolve. Is that true, or do groups die out because they experience a run of bad luck? Charles Marshall and...
View ArticleA mathematical framework for understanding cities: Part social reactor, part...
Cities have long been likened to organisms, ant colonies, and river networks. But these and other analogies fail to capture the essence of how cities really function.
View ArticleSolar splashdown
(Phys.org) —On June 7, 2011, our Sun erupted, blasting tons of hot plasma into space. Some of that plasma splashed back down onto the Sun's surface, sparking bright flashes of ultraviolet light. This...
View ArticleBiofueled Airbus makes air show entrance
An Airbus airliner flew from southern France to the Paris Air Show on Thursday with one fuel tank partially filled with farnesane, a biofuel made from sugar cane as the industry experiments with green...
View ArticleLight and nanoprobes detect early signs of infection
Duke University biomedical engineers and genome researchers have developed a proof-of-principle approach using light to detect infections before patients show symptoms.
View ArticleFerroelectric-graphene-based system could lead to improved information...
Researchers at MIT have proposed a new system that combines ferroelectric materials—the kind often used for data storage—with graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon known for its exceptional...
View ArticleFirst Apple computer could fetch $500,000 or more (Update)
It's the kind of electronic junk that piles up in basements and garages—an old computer motherboard with wires sticking out.
View ArticleAirborne gut action primes wild chili pepper seeds
Scientists have long known that seeds gobbled by birds and dispersed across the landscape tend to fare better than those that fall near parent plants where seed-hungry predators and pathogens are more...
View ArticleGM silkworms bred to spin fluorescent
(Phys.org) —Scientists in Japan have genetically engineered silkworms to create red, green or orange silks that glow under fluorescent lights.
View ArticleAntifreeze on Titan could affect its chances for life
Scientists have found that a common antifreeze compound that might exist on Saturn's moon Titan can get trapped within ice-like cages. This discovery could influence our ideas about the evolution and...
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