The climate is warming faster than it has in the last 2,000 years
Many people have a clear picture of the "Little Ice Age" (from approx. 1300 to 1850). It's characterized by paintings showing people skating on...
Designed protein switch allows unprecedented control over living cells
Scientists have created the first completely artificial protein switch that can work inside living cells to modify—or even commandeer—the cell's complex internal circuitry.
The switch...
How the kava plant produces its pain-relieving and anti-anxiety molecules
Kava (Piper methysticum) is a plant native to the Polynesian islands that people there have used in a calming drink of the same name...
How black holes shape galaxies
Data from ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed how supermassive black holes shape their host galaxies with powerful winds that sweep away interstellar matter.
In...
New study identifies causes of multidecadal climate changes
A new reconstruction of global average surface temperature change over the past 2,000 years has identified the main causes for decade-scale climate changes. The...
New multi-material 3-D nanoprinting strategy could revolutionize optics, photonics and biomedicine
Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created a new multi-material 3-D nanoprinting technique that was featured on the inside front cover of...
Inside dark, polar moon craters, water not as invincible as expected, scientists argue
The Moon's south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in the solar system: it's unimaginably cold, massively cratered, and...
3-D printed custom silicon heart valves
Scientists at ETH Zurich and the South African company Strait Access Technologies are using 3-D printing to produce custom-made artificial heart valves from silicone....
Unconventional phenomena triggered by acoustic waves in 2-D materials
Researchers at the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems (PCS), within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), and colleagues have reported...
New sensor network reveals telltale patterns in neighborhood air quality
Black carbon, commonly known as soot, is a significant contributor to global warming and is strongly linked to adverse health outcomes. Produced by the...
Wavelength-encoded laser particles for massively multiplexed cell tagging
A new study, "Wavelength-encoded laser particles for massively multiplexed cell tagging," by scientists in the Wellman Center for Photomedicine has been published in Nature Photonics.
According...
