The world’s first heat-driven transistor
Heat driven transistor on Laboratory of organic electronics, Linköping University. Credit: Thor Balkhed
Dan Zhao and Simone Fabiano at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping...
Study tallies extra calories Americans consume in their coffee, tea
A new study reveals how many extra calories Americans consume from sugar, fat and saturated fat when they flavor their coffee and tea drinks.Credit:...
Discovery of new fossil from half billion years ago sheds light on life on...
Scientists from universities of Leicester and Cambridge find an 'unfossilizable' creature.Credit: Dr Tom Harvey / University of Leicester
Dr Tom Harvey from the Department of...
Plant regulatory proteins ‘tagged’ with sugar
An illustration showing how a sugar molecule is attached to the protein when it undergoes the O-GlcNAcylation modification process. Credit: Courtesy of Shouling Xu...
New ocean observations improve understanding of motion
Surface velocity vector and magnitude (in color) around the Hawaiian Islands on 25 March 2012 from simulation. Detailed circulation can be calculated where eddies...
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovers the most extreme blazars yet
Black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars are the most common sources detected by NASA's Fermi. As matter falls toward the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's...
Academics build ultimate solar-powered water purifier
From the top left corner, moving clockwise, the four images depict: University at Buffalo students performing an experiment, clean drinking water, water evaporating, and...
Certain heart fat associated with higher risk of heart disease in postmenopausal women
Two types of fat surround the heart, each with different links to heart disease risk.Credit: Rick Sciullo/UPMC
A higher volume of a certain type of...
New study shows how plants fight off disease
Hypothetical structural model of the assembly of TIR domains during signalling, from the SNC1 immunity receptor found in Arapidopsis plants. Individual subunits are shown...
Bag-like sea creature was humans’ oldest known ancestor
Artist's reconstruction of Saccorhytus coronarius, based on the original fossil finds. The actual creature was probably no more than a millimeter in size. Credit:...
Both push and pull drive our Galaxy’s race through space
Flow, antiflow illustration.Credit: Image courtesy of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Discovery of the “Dipole Repeller” confirms that both attraction and repulsion are at play...
