A 7.5-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia on 28 September, destroying homes and hundreds of lives.…
Month: October 2018
One in five Australian honey samples adulterated
Following the recent high-profile fake honey scandal, new and independent research from Macquarie University in collaboration…
Protein dynamics: Molecular machines at work
Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have used a special fluorescence-based imaging technique to track the…
Understanding natural fungicide synthesis—the pathway to strobilurins revealed at last
Scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Hannover studying a naturally-produced compound that inspired the biggest…
Remarkable flares from the galactic center
Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy,…
Nanopore technology with DNA computing easily detects microRNA patterns of lung cancer
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is very aggressive, as the cancer cells quickly grow and easily…
Nanoplatform developed with three molecular imaging modalities for tumor diagnosis
Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have developed a hybrid nanoplatform that locates tumours…
Rapid response needed to limit global warming
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of…
Economists win Nobel for work on climate and growth
William Nordhaus and Paul Romer win prize for research on how climate and technology affect the…
Hubble Space Telescope taken out of action by faulty gyroscopes
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been temporarily shut down as technical faults have hampered its ability to…