In the past, microelectronics were essentially a two-dimensional affair based upon flat integrated circuit chips connected to each other. Then, engineers opened up the third dimension, with integrated circuit chips stacked ...
General Physics
Sep 25, 2014
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A team of scientists found how to make pregnancy tests more sensitive and cheaper. Thanks to neutrons, they could investigate the interaction between antibody and antigens and the importance of a blocking protein, present ...
Biochemistry
Sep 25, 2014
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A European collaboration is developing an atmospheric plasma deposition system to produce Boron-10 layers to cope with the Hellium-3 shortage.
Plasma Physics
Sep 25, 2014
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A software engineer from Florida recently captured an image of the day-old supermoon in September that clearly conveys color variations across its surface. Such variations are often imperceptible, but the brightness and ...
Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2014
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The International Space Station has been called a stepping stone to other worlds.
Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2014
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Have you ever sat outside on a starry night and just watched the stars move slowly above you? Here's a video that shows what it is like to sit back on a spaceship and gaze at the ever-changing sky above.
Space Exploration
Sep 25, 2014
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Few agronomists are familiar with Rhamphicarpa fistulosa, a fragile weed with white flowers, from the broomrape family. Yet this root parasite is increasingly affecting rice cultivation in Africa. This has become clear from ...
Ecology
Sep 25, 2014
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The IPK has been the global standard for mass for the last 125 years; it was sanctioned at the first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) on 7-9 September 1889 in Paris. This is likely to be the last landmark ...
General Physics
Sep 25, 2014
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Google launched its Android One initiative this summer, with the aim of bringing smartphones, apps and the whole mobile internet to the five billion people around the world who do not yet have access to a smartphone. The ...
Business
Sep 25, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Millions of migratory birds that fly tens of thousands of kilometres between their homes in Australia and Siberia are facing annihilation as development destroys the vital feeding grounds they rely on during ...
Ecology
Sep 25, 2014
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