Printed electronics open way for electrified tattoos and personalized biosensors
Electrical engineers at Duke University have devised a fully print-in-place technique for electronics that is gentle enough to work on delicate surfaces including paper...
Exposure to air pollution increases violent crime rates, study finds
Breathing dirty air can make you sick. But according to new research, it can also make you more aggressive.
That's the conclusion from a set...
Plants alert neighbors to threats using common ‘language’
New research from Cornell University shows that plants can communicate with each other when they come under attack from pests.
The study shows that plants...
Implanted memories teach birds a song
A father holds up his newborn, their faces only inches apart, and slowly repeats the syllables "da" and "dee." After months of hearing these...
How much are you polluting your office air just by existing?
Just by breathing or wearing deodorant, you have more influence over your office space than you might think, a growing body of evidence shows....
If warming exceeds 2 C, Antarctica’s melting ice sheets could raise seas 20 meters...
We know that our planet has experienced warmer periods in the past, during the Pliocene geological epoch around three million years ago.
Our research, published...
Combining spintronics and quantum thermodynamics to harvest energy at room temperature
Today's energy-hungry global society is struggling with how to mitigate the effects of man-made climate change, and under what conditions of voluntary/coercive adaptation. Present...
250-million-year-old evolutionary remnants seen in muscles of human embryos
A team of evolutionary biologists, led by Dr. Rui Diogo at Howard University, and writing in the journal Development, have demonstrated that numerous atavistic limb...
Hard as ceramic, tough as steel: Newly discovered connection could help design of nextgen...
A new way to calculate the interaction between a metal and its alloying material could speed the hunt for a new material that combines...
New organic compounds found in Enceladus ice grains
New kinds of organic compounds, the ingredients of amino acids, have been detected in the plumes bursting from Saturn's moon Enceladus. The findings are...
An India-Pakistan nuclear war could kill millions, threaten global starvation
A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could, over the span of less than a week, kill 50-125 million people—more than the death toll...