New study links common herbicides and antibiotic resistance
A new study finds that bacteria develop antibiotic resistance up to 100,000 times faster when exposed to the world's most widely used herbicides, Roundup...
A novel topological insulator
For the first time, physicists have built a unique topological insulator in which optical and electronic excitations hybridize and flow together. They report their...
Engineers develop process to 3-D print cells to produce human tissue such as ligaments...
With today's technology, we can 3-D-print sculptures, mechanical parts, prosthetics, even guns and food. But a team of University of Utah biomedical engineers have...
Newly described fossils could help reveal why some dinos got so big
This is a nearly complete skeleton of Sarahsaurus aurifontanalis; the only major missing piece is the skull. Paleontologist Adam Marsh used this skeleton and...
New catalyst opens door to carbon dioxide capture in conversion of coal to liquid...
World energy consumption projections predict that coal will remain one of the world's main energy sources in coming decades, and a growing share of...
The future of electronic devices: Strong and self-healing ion gels
Scientists at Yokohama National University and the University of Tokyo in Japan have designed an ion gel with excellent toughness and an ability to...
A new way to create molecules for drug development
Chemists at The Ohio State University have developed a new and improved way to generate molecules that can enable the design of new types...
World’s fastest camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per second
What happens when a new technology is so precise that it operates on a scale beyond our characterization capabilities? For example, the lasers used...
Researchers develop microscope to track light energy flow in photosynthetic cells
University of Michigan researchers have developed a powerful microscope that can map how light energy migrates in photosynthetic bacteria on timescales of one-quadrillionth of...
Researchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
Since the 2003 discovery of the single-atom-thick carbon material known as graphene, there has been significant interest in other types of 2-D materials as...
Polymer that heals like skin ‘very close’ to industrial-scale production
The cost of making plastics, paints, coatings for cell phone screens and other materials that heal themselves like skin could be dramatically reduced thanks...
