The financial viability of wind power has been demonstrated in Europe, China, and parts of the United States New estimates of the potential for wind power and the research that backs the est... Read more
Responding to an urgent need for better antibacterial coatings on surgical sutures, scientists are reporting the discovery of a new coating that is almost 1,000 times more effective than the... Read more
A robot that can change colour to either blend in with or stand out from its surroundings has been created by scientists. The machine, designed by researchers at Harvard University, was insp... Read more
The biggest challenge has been quickly examining billions of rapidly moving blood cells in a sample Cells that break away from a cancerous tumor and circulate in the bloodstream are a seriou... Read more
A statistical analysis shows how things really are heating up ARE heatwaves more common than they used to be? That is the question addressed by James Hansen and his colleagues in a paper jus... Read more
It’s relatively easy to collect massive amounts of data on microbes. But the files are so large that it takes days to simply transmit them to other researchers and months to analyze once the... Read more
Slippery technology shown to prevent more than 99% of harmful bacterial slime from forming on surfaces. Biofilms may no longer have any solid ground upon which to stand. A team of Harvard sc... Read more
The Holy Grail of nanotherapy University of Florida researchers have moved a step closer to treating diseases on a cellular level by creating a tiny particle that can be programmed to shut d... Read more
Convert cord blood (CB) cells into neuron-like cells that may prove valuable for the treatment of a wide range of neurological conditions For more than 20 years, doctors have been using cell... Read more
Early targets of the novel treatment are melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma “Getting under your skin” takes on a brave new meaning thanks to Northwestern University research that could tra... Read more
Advance provides genetic options for controlling spread of deadly disease Mosquitoes bred to be unable to infect people with the malaria parasite are an attractive approach to helping curb o... Read more
The drug stops the destructive cells migrating to the joints A drug that “blindfolds” white blood cells could provide a new way of treating rheumatoid arthritis, new research has... Read more
There are not enough beakers to do all the experiments required Tiny substances called nanomaterials have moved into the marketplace over the last decade, in products as varied as cos... Read more
Physicists at UC San Diego have developed a new kind of X-ray microscope that can penetrate deep within materials like Superman’s fabled X-ray vision and see minute details at the scal... Read more