MXene’s Tour de Force
Is there anything MXene materials can’t do?
Since the discovery of a large new family of two-dimensional materials by Drexel University researchers in 2011, continued...
Interaction of Paired and Lined-Up Electrons Can Be Manipulated in Semiconductors
The way that electrons paired as composite particles or arranged in lines interact with each other within a semiconductor provides new design opportunities for...
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Using Gold Nanoparticles to Trigger Sequential Unfolding of 3-D Structures
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that takes advantage of gold nanoparticles to trigger the sequential unfolding of three-dimensional...
Scientists Unravel Molecular Mechanisms of Parkinson’s Disease
Detailed brain cell analysis has helped researchers uncover new mechanisms thought to underlie Parkinson's disease.
The study, published in Nature Communications, adds to our growing understanding...
Scientists Isolate Protein Data from the Tiniest of Caches – Single...
Scientists have obtained a slew of key information about proteins, the molecular workhorses of all cells, from single human cells for the first time.
The...
Reviving the Protector: New Tactic Against Medulloblastoma
Scientists at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University (Winship) have a new tactic with potential for fighting medulloblastoma, the most common and most aggressive...
Protecting Plants Intelligently
We must reduce the environmental and health risks of pesticides. However, rather than banning them completely, Robert Finger advocates an intelligent approach to crop...
Exact Optical Frequencies on Demand
In 2014, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched the Direct On-Chip Digital Optical Synthesizer (DODOS) program, with the goal of finding a...
Researchers Say Their Memristor Neural Network Can be Applied to Machine Learning
A team of researchers headed by electrical and computer engineering Professors Qiangfei Xia and J. Joshua Yang at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, say...
Drugs Targeting Tumour Metabolism Will Not Stop Our ‘Natural Killer’ Cells
Scientists have just made an important discovery as to how cancer-targeting ‘Natural Killer’ (NK) cells are fuelled in the body, which has significant implications...
Getting to the Heart of Congenital Cardiac Defects
Heart defects are the most common type of birth defect, and can be caused by mutations in the gene CHD4. Researchers at the UNC School...
Artificial Biosynthesis Yields Superior Steroid Antibiotics
Researchers at the University of Tokyo discovered that they had obtained supernatural analogs of steroid antibiotics from a system they constructed for the microbial...
The Neurons That Rewrite Traumatic Memories
Memories of traumatic experiences can lead to mental health issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can destroy a person’s life. It is...
Antarctic Ice Cap Melting Faster and Faster
Melting ice in the Antarctic has resulted in a 7.6 millimeter rise in the global sea level since 1992. Three millimeters of this increase...
Rising Tide: Floating Device One Step Closer to Generating Green Power
Efforts to increase power generation by renewables continue unabated, thanks to the need to meet rising global energy demand and mitigate climate change. According...
New Material for Splitting Water
Solar energy is clean and abundant. But when the sun isn't shining, you must store the energy in batteries or through a process called...
Electron Sandwich Doubles Thermoelectric Performance
Researchers from Hokkaido University and their colleagues in Japan and Taiwan have improved the ability to transform wasted heat into usable electricity by significantly...
