NASA’s Parker Solar Probe makes history with closest pass to Sun

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024. Breaking its previous record by flying just…

Latest News

Illustration of the thermodynamics-inspired laser beam shaping process in optical thermodynamics research.

Thermodynamics-Inspired Laser Beam Shaping Sparks a Ray of Hope

Inspired by ideas from thermodynamics, researchers at the University of Rostock and the University of Southern California have developed a new method to efficiently shape and combine high-energy laser beams….

Covalent Organic Framework COF-999 structure for CO2 absorption

A Breath of Fresh Air: Advanced Quantum Calculations Enable COF-999 CO₂ Adsorption

Quantum chemical calculations at HU enable the development of new porous materials that are characterized by a high absorption capacity for CO2 Climate experts agree: To overcome the climate crisis,…

Satellite imagery showing vegetation loss due to multi-year droughts

Why Global Droughts Tied to Climate Change Have Left Us Feeling Under the Weather

A study led by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL shows that there has been a worrying increase in the number of long droughts over…

Illustration of gut microbiota affecting sugar intake and diabetes risk

Short and Sweet: How Gut Bacteria Modulate Sugar Consumption

Too Much of a Good Thing… Excessive sugar consumption is linked to several non-communicable diseases, including obesity, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes. Animals naturally crave sugar, and…

Cichlids practicing brood care in 3D-printed snail shells

Time to Leave Home? Revealed Insights into Brood Care of Cichlids

Shell-dwelling cichlids take intense care of their offspring, which they raise in abandoned snail shells. A team at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence used 3D-printed snail shells to…

Amphiphile-enhanced wearable fabric generating electricity from movement

Smart Fabrics: Innovative Comfortable Wearable Tech

Researchers have demonstrated new wearable technologies that both generate electricity from human movement and improve the comfort of the technology for the people wearing them. The work stems from an…

Page
1 2 3 18,032

Physics and Astronomy

Illustration of the thermodynamics-inspired laser beam shaping process in optical thermodynamics research.

Thermodynamics-Inspired Laser Beam Shaping Sparks a Ray of Hope

Inspired by ideas from thermodynamics, researchers at the University of Rostock and the University of Southern California have developed a new method to efficiently shape and combine high-energy laser beams….

DNA origami structures controlling biological membranes for targeted drug delivery

Shaping the Future: DNA Nanorobots That Can Modify Synthetic Cells

Scientists at the University of Stuttgart have succeeded in controlling the structure and function of biological membranes with the help of “DNA origami”. The system they developed may facilitate the…

Extreme weather events and climate resilience in 2024.

Facing the Storm: A Prepped Up Future Against Extreme Climatic and Weather Changes

From the persistent droughts of southern Africa and Central America in the early part of the year to the more recent devastating extreme rainfall in Spain and the deadly Hurricane…

Life Sciences and Chemistry

Covalent Organic Framework COF-999 structure for CO2 absorption

A Breath of Fresh Air: Advanced Quantum Calculations Enable COF-999 CO₂ Adsorption

Quantum chemical calculations at HU enable the development of new porous materials that are characterized by a high absorption capacity for CO2 Climate experts agree: To overcome the climate crisis,…

Cichlids practicing brood care in 3D-printed snail shells

Time to Leave Home? Revealed Insights into Brood Care of Cichlids

Shell-dwelling cichlids take intense care of their offspring, which they raise in abandoned snail shells. A team at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence used 3D-printed snail shells to…

Illustration of RNA modifications contributing to fungal drug resistance

Tackling Life-Threatening Fungal Infections Using RNA Modifications

Importance of RNA modifications for the development of resistance in fungi raises hope for more effective treatment of fungal infections. An often-overlooked mechanism of gene regulation may be involved in…

Materials Sciences

Spintronics memory innovation: A new perpendicular magnetized film

Long gone are the days where all our data could fit on a two-megabyte floppy disk. In today’s information-based society, the increasing volume of information being handled demands that we…

Materials with a ‘twist’ show unexpected electronic behaviour

In the search for new materials that can enable more efficient electronics, scientists are exploring so-called 2-D materials. These are sheets of just one atom thick, that may have all…

Layer by Layer

How simulations help manufacturing of modern displays. Modern materials must be recyclable and sustainable. Consumer electronics is no exception, with organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) taking over modern televisions and portable…

Information Technology

Humans vs Machines—Who’s Better at Recognizing Speech?

Are humans or machines better at recognizing speech? A new study shows that in noisy conditions, current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems achieve remarkable accuracy and sometimes even surpass human…

AI system analyzing subtle hand and facial gestures for sign language recognition.

Not Lost in Translation: AI Increases Sign Language Recognition Accuracy

Additional data can help differentiate subtle gestures, hand positions, facial expressions The Complexity of Sign Languages Sign languages have been developed by nations around the world to fit the local…

Illustration of multiferroic heterostructures enabling energy-efficient MRAM with giant magnetoelectric effect.

Magnetic Memory Unlocked with Energy-Efficient MRAM

Researchers from Osaka University introduced an innovative technology to lower power consumption for modern memory devices. Stepping up the Memory Game: Overcoming the Limitations of Traditional RAM Osaka, Japan –…