In future space missions, robots will be used for increasingly complex tasks: On foreign planets they shall penetrate into difficult-to-reach areas such as…
The rise of antibiotic resistance has spurred the search for new antimicrobials. Bacteriocins – peptide toxins produced by bacteria to inhibit growth in…
Medicinal plant, bed of the gods, spice and source of conflict – the luxurious saffron is shrouded in myth.
CALADAN is an EU H2020 project, coordinated by IDLab, an imec research group at the Ghent University, which will establish a supply chain for fabrication of…
Phytoplankton form the base of the marine food chain but are notoriously difficult for scientists to account for — a little like trying to identify and count…
Electric currents drive all our electronic devices. The emerging field of spintronics looks to replace electric currents with what are known as spin currents….