Using a unique method involving nanocapsules made out of DNA, researchers studied a little-understood signaling process (lit up in color in the neurons above) that plays a key role in the brain.
Credit: Veetil et. al
A team of...
Changes in microstructure, such as this void and fibrils created by straining a polymer sheet, appear to control how the material charges through friction.
Credit: Case Western Reserve University
For centuries, scientists have tried to understand triboelectric charging, commonly...
A scalable graphene-based membrane for producing clean water.
Credit: Aaron Morelos-Gomez
An international team of researchers, including scientists from Shinshu University (Japan) and the director of Penn State's ATOMIC Center, has developed a graphene-based coating for desalination membranes that...
Chocolate as a medical aid?
Credit: BYU Photo
What if eating chocolate helped prevent and treat diabetes? It's crazy enough to laugh off.
But here's the thing: BYU researchers have discovered certain compounds found in cocoa can actually help...
High-tech fabric intended for gloves and other military clothing contains silver mesh (silver nanowires or 'AgNW') that could be heated to keep soldiers warm, while a hydrogel layer would absorb sweat.
Credit: US Army Natick Soldier Research Development and Engineering...
Dysregulated energy balance can result in obesity.
Credit: Image courtesy of Hiroshima University
NPGL, a recently discovered protein involved in brain signalling, has been found to increase fat storage by the body -- even when on a low-calorie diet
In addition, NPGL...
An illustration of how laboratory techniques can tell scientists like Anat Shahar and her team about how elements such as iron behave under the extreme pressures found in the Earth's core. Background image courtesy of Vadim Sadovski.
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A new study finds a natural impediment to the long-term sequestration of carbon dioxide.
Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT
Carbon sequestration promises to address greenhouse-gas emissions by capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and injecting it deep below the Earth's surface, where it...
The results of tests conducted by UConn chemists show that nicotine electronic cigarettes are equivalent, if not slightly worse, than unfiltered (nf) tobacco cigarettes when it comes to causing DNA damage. Non-nicotine (nn) e-cigarettes cause damage similar to filtered...
Super Kamiokande is the worldʼs largest underground neutrino detector, and is located 1000 metres underground in Kamioka Mine, Hida, Gifu Precture, Japan. It is affiliated with the Kamioka Observatory of the Institute of Cosmic Ray Research at the University...
Antineutrino detectors in Daya Bay Hall #3. The detectors rest in a pool being filled with ultrapure water.
Credit: University of California - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Daya Bay Collaboration, an international group of scientists studying the subtle transformations of...
