Dusty surprise around giant black hole
(Phys.org) —ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer has gathered the most detailed observations ever of the dust around the huge black hole at the centre of an active galaxy. Rather than finding all...
View ArticleResearchers find slime mold feeding fronds have memristance
(Phys.org) —Researchers at the University of the West of England have found that the feeding fronds on a type of slime mold have a property known memory resistance, which has been shortened to the term...
View ArticlePhysicists develop flexible multicell Zn-MnO2 battery for printed electronics
(Phys.org) —The market for thin, flexible, printed electronic circuits is potentially huge. Although tremendous advances have been made in printing organic semiconductors like thin-film transistors...
View ArticleApp to protect private data on iOS devices finds almost half of other apps...
Almost half of the mobile apps running on Apple's iOS operating system access the unique identifier of the devices where they're downloaded, computer scientists at the University of California, San...
View ArticleAstronomers discover pulsations in crystalized, dying star
(Phys.org) —Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have used the 2.1-meter Otto Struve Telescope at the university's McDonald Observatory to discover pulsations from the...
View ArticleScottish startup looking to turn whisky dregs into biobutanol
(Phys.org) —Scottish-based company Celtic Renewables is looking to use waste materials from the whiskey production process to make biobutanol, which can be used to power engines. The process, called...
View ArticleWhy jumping genes don't send us into meltdown
A team of researchers, led by academics at The University of Nottingham, has explained why the so-called 'jumping genes' found in most living organisms don't ultimately kill off their hosts, putting an...
View ArticleScientists design a potential drug compound that attacks Parkinson's disease...
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a compound that could counter Parkinson's disease in two ways at once.
View ArticleToo green to be true? Researchers develop highly effective method for...
Université Laval researchers have developed a highly effective method for converting CO2 into methanol, which can be used as a low-emissions fuel for vehicles. The team led by Professor...
View ArticleParticle accelerator that can fit on a tabletop opens new chapter for science...
Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have built a tabletop particle accelerator that can generate energies and speeds previously reached only by major facilities that are hundreds of meters...
View ArticleDoes your salad know what time it is? Managing vegetables' 'internal clocks'...
Does your salad know what time it is? It may be healthier for you if it does, according to new research from Rice University and the University of California at Davis.
View ArticlePistil leads pollen in life-and-death dance
Millions of times on a spring day there is a dramatic biomolecular tango where the flower, rather than adorning a dancer's teeth, is the performer. In this dance, the female pistil leads, the male...
View ArticleChlamydia promotes gene mutations
Chlamydia trachomatis is a human pathogen that is the leading cause of bacterial sexually transmitted disease worldwide with more than 90 million new cases of genital infections occurring each year....
View ArticleHubble spots galaxies in close encounter
(Phys.org) —The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this vivid image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142. When two galaxies stray too close to each other they begin to interact,...
View ArticleResearchers propose new method for achieving nonlinear optical effects
Picture two light beams intersecting one another in space. When the beams touch one another, does the light bend? Reflect? Combine into a single beam?
View ArticleFacebook introduces video on Instagram (Update 2)
Facebook is adding video to its popular photo-sharing app Instagram, following in the heels of Twitter's growing video-sharing app, Vine.
View ArticleHow did a third radiation belt appear in the Earth's upper atmosphere?
(Phys.org) —Since the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in in the Earth's upper atmosphere in 1958, space scientists have believed that these belts consisted of two doughnut-shaped rings of...
View ArticleUncovering quantum secret in photosynthesis
The efficient conversion of sunlight into useful energy is one of the challenges which stand in the way of meeting the world's increasing energy demand in a clean, sustainable way without relying on...
View ArticleThe Red Queen was right: We have to run to keep in place
Biologists quote Lewis Carroll when arguing that survival is a constant struggle to adapt and evolve. Is that true, or do groups die out because they experience a run of bad luck? Charles Marshall and...
View ArticleA mathematical framework for understanding cities: Part social reactor, part...
Cities have long been likened to organisms, ant colonies, and river networks. But these and other analogies fail to capture the essence of how cities really function.
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