Scientists have discovered a planetary-scale tug-of-war between life, deep Earth and the upper atmosphere that is expressed in atmospheric nitrogen.
Credit: ISS Expedition 7 Crew, EOL, NASA
A team of scientists using a state-of-the-art UCLA instrument reports the discovery of a...
Cockroach on a slippery tile. (stock image)
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Using the example of cockroaches, the Cologne-based zoologist Dr Tom Weihmann and his team were able to show that quickly running insects change their gait at mid-speed. This behaviour...
This entirely textile-based, bacteria-powered bio-battery could one day be integrated into wearable electronics.
Credit: Seokheun Choi
BINGHAMTON, NY - A research team led by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has developed an entirely textile-based, bacteria-powered bio-battery that...
Trilobite fossil (stock image).
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Researchers from Cologne, Tallinn, and Edinburgh have found out that the compound eyes of today's arthropods are still constructed in much the same way as they were in their ancestors 500 million...
Dr. Todd Roberts examines a zebra finch inside his lab at the O'Donnell Brain Institute.
Credit: Photo by David Gresham, UT Southwestern.
Researchers have identified a network of neurons that plays a vital role in learning vocalizations by aiding communication between...
NREL scientists Joey Luther and Erin Sanehira are part of a team that has helped NREL set an efficiency record of 13.4% for a quantum dot solar cell.
Credit: Image courtesy of DOE/National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Researchers at the U.S. Department...
Traces of DNA in the sea can be used to monitor shark populations, say researchers.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of Salford
Marine ecologists have shown that traces of DNA in the sea can be used to monitor shark populations.
Current methods...
VR system from Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could make it easier for factory workers to telecommute.
Credit: Jason Dorfman, MIT CSAIL
Many manufacturing jobs require a physical presence to operate machinery. But what if such jobs could be done...
The swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor) is more closely related to the remaining wallaby species and the large red and grey kangaroos and wallaroos than previously assumed.
Credit: Queensland University of Technology, Matthew Phillips
Ironically, it is jumping genes that indicate the...
Hundreds of pterosaur bones laying on the surface, demonstrating the richness of these sites. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 1 December 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by X. Wang at...
Printing with bacterial ink. Bacteria-containing ink can even be printed on a complex three-dimensional surface such as this doll's head.
Credit: Laboratory for complex materials / ETH Zurich
There will soon be nothing that cannot be produced with 3D printing. However,...
