A ‘bionic leaf’ could help feed the world
The radishes on the right were grown with the help of a bionic leaf that produces fertilizer with bacteria, sunlight, water and air.
Credit: Nocera...
Touch-sensitive, elastic fibers offer new interface for electronics
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created elastic, touch-sensitive fibers that can interface with electronic devices.
Credit: North Carolina State University
Researchers from North Carolina...
DNA double helix structures crystals
DNA is the blueprint of biological life: it contains all hereditary information and the arrangement of its base pairs determines the structure of amino...
Emissions from the edge of the forest
Forest fragments of the Brazilian Mata Atlântica forest in Brazil are surrounded by sugar cane plantations.
Credit: Usina Trapiche S/A
When talk is of important ecosystems,...
Mini brains from the petri dish
When pipetting: Associate professor Dr. Philipp Koch, Dr. Julia Ladewig and Vira Iefremova.
Credit: (c) Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn
A new method could push research into developmental...
Archaeologist explains innovation of ‘fluting’ ancient stone weaponry
A collection of Clovis point replicas and casts in the archaeology lab at Kent State University.
Credit: Kent State University
Approximately 13,500 years after nomadic Clovis...
New indications of gradual decline of dinosaurs before the end of the cretaceous period
Credit:Wolfgang Stinnesbeck
According to the latest research results of a German-Mexican team of geoscientists, the gradual decline of the dinosaurs and pterosaurs presumably came before...
Nanoscopic golden springs change color of twisted light
Credit: Ventsislav Valev
University of Bath scientists have used gold spring-shaped coils 5,000 times thinner than human hairs with powerful lasers to enable the detection of...
Android apps can conspire to mine information from your smartphone
Credit:Virginia Tech.
Mobile phones have increasingly become the repository for the details that drive our everyday lives. But Virginia Tech researchers have recently discovered that...
Electronic synapses that can learn: Towards an artificial brain?
Credit: © Sören Boyn / CNRS/Thales physics joint research unit.
Researchers from the CNRS, Thales, and the Universities of Bordeaux, Paris-Sud, and Evry have created an...
Spray-on memory could enable bendable digital storage
Credit:Matthew Catenacci
USB flash drives are already common accessories in offices and college campuses. But thanks to the rise in printable electronics, digital storage devices...
