New Glucose Fuel Cell May Power Future Medical Implants
A team of engineers has developed a glucose fuel cell fabricated from silicon and consisting of a platinum catalyst that strips electrons from glucose, mimicking…
A team of engineers has developed a glucose fuel cell fabricated from silicon and consisting of a platinum catalyst that strips electrons from glucose, mimicking…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently detected a solar flare that produced enough gamma rays to briefly make the sun the brightest object in the…
A new study from scientists at MIT gives a comprehensive look at how chronic inflammation of organs, often caused by viral or bacterial infections, provokes…
According to a new study, ecologists at Brown University have discovered that recreational fishing has reduced predators in many of Cape Cod’s salt marsh ecosystems,…
ITER researchers working to help bring fusion power to the commercial market completed a critical step this week, successfully testing their technology that serves to…
Using X-ray observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio observations from the Expanded Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers studied two black hole…
NASA’s Kepler mission discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one and now astronomers from Penn State have precisely…
With little known about how plants produce cocaine, biochemists at the Max Planck institute set out to better understand the process, finding that an enzyme…
A newly published study from Cornell University scientists suggests that the melting of Arctic sea ice due to climate change can lead to increased odds…
A new survey from MIT is the first to systematically investigate the efforts of cities around the globe to adapt to climate change, showing that…
Tomorrow, June 5, 2012, will provide astronomers and enthusiasts with a chance to view a very rare phenomenon known as the Venus Transit, which doesn’t…
New research from the Max Planck Institute examines the role of cryptogamic covers in the global exchange of oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen. Covering approximately 30%…
The Cassini-Huygens mission uncovered some strange phenomena on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Located far from Sol and an unlikely candidate to find liquid water, scientists found…
Limited by today’s telescope technology, an international team of astronomers searched for another way to probe supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. By analyzing data…
A company called Rayfish Footwear claims to bring consumers shoes made out of genetically engineered stingrays. The resulting shoes look very distinctive, but there has…
An international team working to understand invisibility and extend its possible applications has now devised an amplifier, “Schrödinger’s hat,” that can boost light, sound or…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute believe that they now know where the methane on Mars is originating from. In their published work, the scientists…
Observed for the first time in neurons, biologists from Princeton University documented common strains of the herpes virus indirectly taking control of a cell’s mitochondria….