Ginkgo fossil. Credit: Stephen McLoughlin For the first time, researchers have succeeded in establishing the relationships between 200-million-year-old plants based on chemical fingerprints. Using infrared spectroscopy and statistical analysis of organic molecules in fossil leaves, they are opening up new perspectives...
The metal-organic framework is set up like a sandwich (a). The molecular textile layer is woven in an active layer that is embedded between so-called sacrificial layers (b). Credit: KIT Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have made major progress...
Cyclone Chapala over the Gulf of Aden Nov. 2, 2015. Credit: NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response Researchers from Princeton University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report in the journal Nature Climate Change that extreme cyclones...
Nelson Sepulveda is a nanotechnology researcher and associate professor of engineering at Michigan State University. Credit: Michigan State University A paper-thin, flexible device created at Michigan State University not only can generate energy from human motion, it can act as a...
Tomato plants produce repellent chemicals called volatile organic compounds in response to herbivore attacks. (Stock image) Credit: © slavomir pancevac / Fotolia In sports, sometimes a player has to take one for the team. The same appears to be true in...
Titan's winter polar vortex imaged by the Cassini Spacecraft's ISS camera. The vortex is now in deep winter and can only be seen because the polar clouds within the vortex extend high above Titan's surface into the sunlight. The...
This is a Mursi woman of Nilo-Saharan ancestry. Nilo-Saharan pastoralist populations possess some of the darkest skin in Africa. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania found mutations associated with both light and dark pigmentation in a genome-wide association study...
Stability test of the novel MA(1-x)GuaxPbI3 perovskite material under continuous light illumination compared with the state-of-the-art MAPbI3. A schematic of the device architecture and the simulated crystalline structure is also provided. Credit: M.K. Nazeeruddin/EPFL With the power-conversion efficiency of silicon solar...
West Antarctica glaciers observed during an October 2014 NASA Operation IceBridge mission. New research shows valleys in the ocean floor enable warm, salty water to reach the undersides of glaciers, fueling their increasingly rapid retreat. Credit: NASA / Michael Studinger Glaciologists...
The researchers used the supercomputer Blue Waters to determine the complete HIV capsid structure, a simulation that accounted for the interactions of 64 million atoms. Credit: Klaus Schulten/Juan Perilla A team led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of...
This image depicts a trap nest containing a mason wasp (Antherhynchium flavomarginatum) pupa, left; and a mason wasp larva, right, that has been parasitized by the larva of the wasp parasitoid Lycogaster violaceipennis. Credit: Felix Fornoff, University of Freiburg Like a...