New catalyst lowers cost for producing environmentally sustainable hydrogen from water.
May 30, 2023
While it can take years for the pharmaceutical industry to create medicines capable of treating or curing human disease, a new study suggests that using generative artificial intelligence could vastly accelerate the drug-development process.
May 30, 2023
If an alien civilization wanted to communicate with other civilizations throughout the Milky Way, the galaxy's core holds potential as a strategic site for a beacon.
May 30, 2023
Engineers have developed minimally invasive, ultraflexible nanoelectrodes that could serve as an implanted platform for administering long-term, high-resolution stimulation therapy.
May 30, 2023
A deep learning algorithm and metasurface combine to recreate a high-resolution image of the famous portrait.
May 30, 2023
International researchers have built artificial virus-like particles capable of entering human cells to perform tasks such as gene editing.
May 30, 2023
Not only is this the first time such a water emission has been seen over such an expansive distance, but Webb is also giving scientists a direct look, for the first time, at how this emission feeds the water supply for the entire system of Saturn and its rings.
May 30, 2023
A novel design for a solar-powered desalination unit that is energy-efficient, cost-effective and portable, making it convenient to set up in areas with limited access to continuous electricity.
May 30, 2023
Astronomers discover the last three planets the Kepler telescope observed before going dark.
May 30, 2023
Researchers have developed a unique method to screen large-scale libraries for industrially useful bacterial strains. The simple approach combines biosensors and microfluidics to quickly identify mutant strains that secrete large amounts of industrially useful proteins, opening the doors to more applications, like reasonably priced biopharmaceuticals.
May 30, 2023
Researchers have discovered a new response mechanism specific to exposure to nanoparticles that is common to multiple species. By analysing a large collection of datasets concerning the molecular response to nanomaterials, they have revealed an ancestral epigenetic mechanism of defence that explains how different species, from humans to simpler creatures, adapt to this type of exposure.
May 29, 2023
Researchers how their multilegged walking robot can be steered by inducing a dynamic instability. This work can lead to more energy-efficient and reliable robotic navigation of terrain.
May 29, 2023
Properties of 'egress complex' of termite mounds can be copied to optimize interior climate of buildings.
May 26, 2023
Researchers have developed a new way to rapidly and precisely eradicate fungal infections in the mouth by using nanorobots guided by magnets.
May 26, 2023
Researchers have created the first protein-based nano-computing agent that functions as a circuit. The milestone puts them one step closer to developing next-generation cell-based therapies to treat diseases like diabetes and cancer.
May 26, 2023
Depending on the friction and external bias forces they experience, self-propelled Brownian particles will take on one of four possible states of motion. The discovery could help researchers to draw deeper insights into the behaviours of these unique systems in nature and technology.
May 26, 2023
Researchers have succeeded in creating a superlattice of semiconductor quantum dots that can behave like a metal, potentially imparting exciting new properties to this popular class of materials.
May 26, 2023