Revealed: Plants Molecular ‘Alarm’ System That Protects Them From Predators
Scientists uncover how oral secretions of the cotton leaf worm trigger defense responses in a plant. In nature, every species must be equipped with a…
Scientists uncover how oral secretions of the cotton leaf worm trigger defense responses in a plant. In nature, every species must be equipped with a…
Hydrogen is an essential commodity with over 60 million tons produced globally every year. However over 95 percent of it is made by steam reformation…
Report offers guidelines to help prevent viruses from tainting biopharmaceutical drugs. Over the past few decades, there have been a handful of incidents in which…
Microneedles made of silk-based material can target plant tissues for delivery of micronutrients, hormones, or genes. While the human world is reeling from one pandemic,…
Biological structures sometimes have unique features that engineers would like to copy. For example, many types of insect wings shed water, kill microbes, reflect light…
University of Oklahoma Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation file for FDA Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 detection test…
Columbia researchers design biocompatible ion-driven soft transistors that can perform real-time neurologically relevant computation and a mixed-conducting particulate composite that allows creation of electronic components…
Brain-inspired electronics with organic memristors offer an energy and cost-efficient platform for various AI and IoT applications. The advent of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and…
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers advance neuromorphic computing. Only 10 years ago, scientists working on what they hoped would open a new frontier of neuromorphic…
Pterosaurs were the largest animals ever to fly. They soared the skies for 160 million years–much longer than any species of modern bird. Despite their…
Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Cambridge have 3D-printed coral-inspired structures that are capable of growing dense populations…
Bacteria on nanowires convert sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to organic building blocks. If humans ever hope to colonize Mars, the settlers will need to…
Researchers from Cambridge University and the University of California San Diego have 3D-printed coral-inspired structures that are capable of growing dense populations of microscopic algae….
There’s a new disease-detecting technology in the lab of Sanjiv “Sam” Gambhir, MD Ph.D., and its No. 1 source of data is number one. And…
A variety of companies with MIT ties are working to address aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic. As the world grapples with the public health crises…
Technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices. The brain is one of our most vulnerable organs, as soft as the softest…
Scientists Identify Microbe That Could Help Degrade Polyurethane-Based Plastics A strain of an extremophile group of bacteria is capable of ingesting toxic organic compounds as…
Graphene-based biosensors could usher in an era of liquid biopsy, detecting DNA cancer markers circulating in a patient’s blood or serum. But current designs need…