Frustration led to revelation when Rice University scientists determined how graphene might be made useful for high-capacity batteries.

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

May 16, 2013 4.8 / 5 (12) 3 |

Three years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, crude oil toxicity continues to sicken a sentinel Gulf Coast fish species, according to new findings from a research team that includes a University ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 01, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

(Phys.org) —By introducing individual silicon atom 'defects' using a scanning tunnelling microscope, scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have coupled single atoms to form quantum states.

Physics - Quantum Physics

Apr 03, 2013 4.8 / 5 (6) 1 |

What genes are responsible for the development of breast cancer? What are the brain cell mutations that lead to the onset of Alzheimer's? To find new therapies, scientists have to understand how diseases ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 02, 2013 not rated yet 0

Using a highly sensitive method of measurement, HZB physicists have managed to localize defects in amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells. Now, for the first time ever, using computer simulations ...

Physics - General Physics

Mar 27, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Modern medicine is largely based on treating patients with "small-molecule" drugs, which include pain relievers like aspirin and antibiotics such as penicillin.

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Mar 11, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 0

(Phys.org)—In nanoscience, the ultimate goal is to design better materials and devices by controlling the positions of the atoms, molecules, and molecular clusters on a substrate with exact precision. In ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Feb 27, 2013 4.9 / 5 (8) 0 |

Gene wars rage inside our cells, with invading DNA regularly threatening to subvert our human blueprint. Now, building on Nobel-Prize-winning findings, UC San Francisco researchers have discovered a molecular machine that ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 14, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Little penguins, also known as fairy penguins, usually have a white belly and dark blue back to camouflage them from predatory eagles above and their fish prey below.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jan 31, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 2

UWA scientists have explained the photochromic behaviour of the pink diamond in an attempt to uncover why they possess their pink colouration.

Physics - Condensed Matter

Jan 08, 2013 4.2 / 5 (5) 15 |

(Phys.org)—A simple, precise and inexpensive method for cutting DNA to insert genes into human cells could transform genetic medicine, making routine what now are expensive, complicated and rare procedures ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jan 08, 2013 5 / 5 (9) 0 |

(Phys.org)—Directed assembly is a growing field of research in nanotechnology in which scientists and engineers aim to manufacture structures on the smallest scales without having to individually manipulate ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

Jan 02, 2013 4.8 / 5 (5) 0 |

Waves do not spread in a disordered medium if there is less than one wavelength between two defects. Physicists from the universities of Zurich and Constance have now proved Nobel Prize winner Philip W. Anderson's ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Dec 20, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 2 |

Topological defects in space may have developed fractions of a second after the Big Bang. Simulations of these wormlike entities and a comparison of the simulations with cosmic background radiation measurements ...

Physics - General Physics

Dec 19, 2012 4.8 / 5 (10) 1 |

(Phys.org)—A research team from the University of California has identified two reprogramming events that occur during the development of oocytes and sperm leading to the formation of gametes in humans. In studying aborted ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Dec 17, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |