Artificial blood vessels developed in the lab can grow with the recipient
Researchers are working to create an "off-the-shelf" material that doctors can implant in a patient, and it can grow in the body. This research...
Creating antimatter via lasers?
The distribution of the laser intensity (orange), the foil electron and foil ion densities (gray), and the positron density (red) in the x--y plane....
The fall and rise of Native North America
Credit: University of Cambridge
The story of Native North America – from its vast contribution to world culture, to the often taboo social problems of...
Longest Record of Continuous Carbon Flux Data is Now Publicly Available
This map shows all of the tower sites around the world that contributed observations to the FLUXNET 2015 data release. Credit: http://fluxnet.fluxdata.org/
Around the world—from...
How wetlands and agriculture, not fossil fuels, could be causing a global rise in...
Wetlands and agriculture, not fossil fuels could be causing a global rise in methane.Credit: Flickr/jalan68
Research published in the American Geophysical Union's journal Global Biogeochemical...
Ancient eggshell protein breaks through DNA time barrier
The researchers speculated that proteins might survive better if they were stuck onto solid surfaces, and so they tested the theory with the support...
Consistency builds cohesion in the animal kingdom
Fish with consistent personalities are more successful in social groups and better at helping to build tighter shoals.
Oscar Wilde may have considered consistency "the...
Discovery: A New Form of Light
University of Vermont doctoral student Morgan Cousins holds up a sample of a solution of strange rotor molecules made from boron-based dye. Led by...
Scientists discover how insect-borne viruses ‘suppress’ the immune system to cause disease
Arboviruses – viruses transmitted by insects such as mosquitoes – pose a considerable threat to both human and animal health. Despite that, not enough...
First Quantum Photonic Circuit with an Electrically Driven Light Source
Credit: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Whether for use in safe data encryption, ultrafast calculation of huge data volumes or so-called quantum simulation of highly complex...
Quantum computing a step closer to reality
Dr Geoff Campbell and Mr Jesse Everett. Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU
Physicists at the Australian National University (ANU) have brought quantum computing a step closer...
