If you were a honeybee, how would you choose where to find flowers? Imagine your first…
Iron nanorobots go undercover to do surveillance on living cells in real time
Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance—their location and migration noninvasively tracked in…
Supercomputer model simulations reveal cause of Neanderthal extinction
Climate scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics discover that, contrary to previously held beliefs,…
Breaking down stubborn cellulose in timelapse
Researchers at TU Graz in Austria have for the first time ever succeeded in visualizing at…
DY Centauri: Stellar evolution while you watch
In 1930, Dorrit Hoffleit reported that star number #4749 in the Harvard List of variables had…
Endangered cultural heritage on the seafloor: Underwater archaeology in the North and Baltic Seas
n many regions of the world, the seafloor contains a fascinating archive of human history. This…
Estimating the sex of the youngest individuals from Sima de los Huesos via dentition
thanks to the analysis of 32 dental pieces using micro-computed tomography a team led by Cecilia…
Researchers discover high-performance biocatalyst for the production of naturally derived drugs
In the bioeconomy, biotechnological processes are replacing processes that rely on fossil resources. Microorganisms and enzymes…
New integrated device for nanometer-scale sensing
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a new, integrated optical sensor that provides increased…
Meet Africa's first pygmy seahorse species
An international research team has discovered a new pygmy seahorse species in Sodwana Bay in South…