science
Developing ‘Green’ Electronics
An artist's rendition of Geobacter expressing electrically conductive nanowires. Microbiologists at UMass Amherst have discovered a new type of natural wire produced by bacteria...
Depression as hard on the heart as obesity and cholesterol
Risk of a fatal cardiovascular disease due to depression is almost as great as that due to elevated cholesterol levels or obesity. Image credit:Flickr/HAMZA...
Why scientists should research emojis and emoticons :-P
An example of the communicative power of emojis in reducing ambiguity in eritten discourse. Credit: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
More than 90% of online populations...
A natural compound can block the formation of toxins associated with...
Neurons derived from human neural stem cells. Credit: Wellcome images
A naturally-occurring compound has been found to block a molecular process thought to underlie Parkinson's...
Want to Ace an Exam? Tell a Friend What You Learned
Telling someone else about what you've learned is a really effective way for students to study instead of just re-reading the textbook or class...
Laser-driving of semimetals allows creating novel quasiparticle states
Dancing Weyl cones: When excited by tailored laser pulses (white spiral), the cones in a Dirac fermion material dance on a path (8-shape) that...
Every meal triggers inflammation
Image Credit: Flickr/stu_spivack
When we eat, we do not just take in nutrients – we also consume a significant quantity of bacteria. The body is...
First-ever X-ray image capture of material defect process
Argonne researchers are the first to capture the formation of nanomaterial defects in near-real time. Their work will help other researchers model the behavior...
Flexible ferroelectrics bring two material worlds together
A scanning electron microscopy image of flexible haloimidazole crystals, which were found to show both ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties. (Image by Seungbum Hong/Argonne National...
Fossils found reveal unseen ‘footprint’ maker
Trilobite species: An illustration of a trilobite (a different species than the recent find). Credit: University of Adelaide
Fossils found in Morocco from the long-extinct...
Theory lends transparency to how glass breaks
Predictions of various deformation fields in the Vitreloy 1 simulation created at Rice University at various stages of deformation and with an ambient temperature...
