Light-Based ‘Tractor Beam’ Precisely Assembles Nanoscale Structures
Modern construction is a precision endeavor. Builders must use components manufactured to meet specific standards — such as beams of a desired composition or rivets…
Modern construction is a precision endeavor. Builders must use components manufactured to meet specific standards — such as beams of a desired composition or rivets…
A rare transit of Mercury will take place on Monday, November 11, 2019, when the smallest planet in our Solar System will pass directly between…
Autonomous system improves environmental sampling at sea: Robotic boats could more rapidly locate the most valuable sampling spots in uncharted waters. An autonomous robotic system…
Scientists from Leipzig measure an important sub-process of the water cycle. Vertical air motions increase ice formation in mixed-phase clouds. This correlation was predicted theoretically…
Researchers have discovered how neuronal networks are able to generate activity sequences for meaningful behavior. Neuroscientists at the Bernstein Center Freiburg (BCF) of the University…
NASA will contribute an instrument to a European space mission that will explore the atmospheres of hundreds of planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun, or…
It only happens about 13 times a century and won’t happen again until 2032, so don’t miss the transit of Mercury on Monday, November 11!…
Our planet has been baking under the sun this summer as temperatures reached the hottest ever recorded and heat waves spread across the globe. While…
A new sphenisciform fossil from the north island of New Zealand further resolves the bauplan of extinct giant penguins. Penguins are descendants of seabirds that…
Why is it that people find songs such as James Taylor’s “Country Roads,” UB40’s “Red, Red Wine,” or The Beatles’ “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” so irresistibly enjoyable?…
International team detected radio bubbles with South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. A gigantic, balloon-like structure has been hiding in plain sight, right in the center of…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, together with colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Sciencein Israel have developed a computational…
The ability to enhance night vision capabilities could have implications in improving what can be seen in space, in chemical and biological disaster areas, and…
Three billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. The sun that shone on its oceans and continents was not as bright as it…
Copper Hospital Beds Kill Bacteria, Save Lives A new study has found that copper hospital beds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) harbored an average…
The discovery of a 13 billion-year-old cosmic cloud of gas enabled a team of Carnegie astronomers to perform the earliest-ever measurement of how the universe…
Microscopy technique is expected to benefit studies in life sciences and biology. A University of California, Los Angeles research team has devised a technique that…
An international team of scientists, led by Prof. Kevin Verstrepen (VIB-KU-Leuven) and Prof. Steven Maere (VIB-UGent), has discovered that some of the most renowned classic…