In vitro innovation: Testing nanomedicine with blood cells on a microchip
Designing nanomedicine to combat diseases is a hot area of scientific research, primarily for treating cancer, but very little is known in the context of atherosclerotic disease. Scientists have...
View ArticleMath model predicts growth, death of membership-based websites
(Phys.org) —Facebook, now celebrating its 10th anniversary, is a proven success in what the late Nobel laureate Herbert Simon called "the marketplace of attention." A new model devised at Carnegie...
View ArticleOff-the-shelf materials lead to self-healing polymers (w/ video)
(Phys.org) —Look out, super glue and paint thinner. Thanks to new dynamic materials developed at the University of Illinois, removable paint and self-healing plastics soon could be household products.
View ArticleFruit flies—fermented-fruit connoisseurs—are relentless party crashers
That fruit fly joining you just moments after you poured that first glass of cabernet, has just used its poppy-seed-sized brain to conduct a finely-choreographed search, one that's been described for...
View ArticleGenes shed light on pygmy history
Scientists on Tuesday said they could fill a blank in the history of Central Africa's pygmies, whose past is one of the most elusive of any community in the world.
View ArticleMAVEN on track to carry out its science mission
The MAVEN spacecraft and all of its science instruments have completed their initial checkout, and all of them are working as expected. This means that MAVEN is on track to carry out its full science...
View ArticleSucker-footed fossils broaden the bat map
Today, Madagascar sucker-footed bats live nowhere outside their island home, but new research shows that hasn't always been the case. The discovery of two extinct relatives in northern Egypt suggests...
View ArticleApple claws back share in US with new iPhones
Apple has regained ground in the US smartphone market with its latest iPhone release, a survey showed Tuesday.
View ArticleKepler finds a very wobbly planet
(Phys.org) —Imagine living on a planet with seasons so erratic you would hardly know whether to wear Bermuda shorts or a heavy overcoat. That is the situation on a weird, wobbly world found by NASA's...
View ArticleFirst in non-primates: Research shows jackdaws use eyes for communication
Researchers in Cambridge and Exeter have discovered that jackdaws use their eyes to communicate with each other – the first time this has been shown in non-primates.
View ArticleFamed obfuscator proving thus far to be unhackable
(Phys.org) —This past summer a team of researchers from MIT and UCLA, with affiliations with IBM and Microsoft published two papers on Cryptology ePrint Archive. The first described a protocol the team...
View ArticleNew insights into network that plays crucial role in cell function and disease
A new research paper from the labs of University of Notre Dame researchers Holly Goodson and Mark Alber helps resolve an ongoing debate about the assembly of a subcellular network that plays a critical...
View ArticleStronger benchmarks needed to fully quantify quantum speedup, physicist says
(Phys.org) —Texas A&M University physicist Helmut G. Katzgraber's research takes him to the crossroads of physics, computer science, quantum information theory and statistical mechanics. For more...
View ArticleForest emissions, wildfires explain why ancient Earth was so hot
(Phys.org) —The release of volatile organic compounds from Earth's forests and smoke from wildfires 3 million years ago had a far greater impact on global warming than ancient atmospheric levels of...
View ArticleVanadium dioxide research opens door to new, multifunctional spintronic smart...
Research from a team led by North Carolina State University is opening the door to smarter sensors by integrating the smart material vanadium dioxide onto a silicon chip and using lasers to make the...
View ArticleToward new precision in measuring the neutron lifetime
(Phys.org) —A team of PML scientists, with collaborators elsewhere, has achieved a five-fold reduction in the dominant uncertainty in an experiment that measured the mean lifetime of the free neutron...
View ArticleQuantum engineering pushes refrigerator beyond classical efficiency limits
(Phys.org) —The laws of thermodynamics determine what is possible and impossible in classical systems. Lately, scientists have been working on establishing quantum analogues of these fundamental laws...
View ArticleStudy finds bumblebees able to fly as high as Mount Everest
(Phys.org) —A pair of researchers has found that alpine bumblebees are able to fly at altitudes in excess of twenty nine thousand simulated feet—higher than Mount Everest. In their paper published in...
View ArticleStrange marine mammals of ancient North Pacific revealed
The pre-Ice Age marine mammal community of the North Pacific formed a strangely eclectic scene, research by a Geology PhD student at New Zealand's University of Otago reveals.
View ArticleBotanists suggest Voynich illustrations similar to plants in Mexico
(Phys.org) —A pair of botanists has published a paper in HerbalGram in which they note similarities between plant illustrations in the famed Voynich Manuscript and plant illustrations in old Mexican...
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