Understanding variable stability and mechanical resilience in streptavidin-biotin binding

Recent research by Rafael C. Bernardi at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign examines why a common…

Dig for artifacts confirms New Guinea's Neolithic period

It is well known that agriculture developed independently in New Guinea 7000 years ago, but evidence…

Revisiting decades-old Voyager 2 data, scientists find one more secret about Uranus

Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 2…

A new approach to achieving stable, high-repetition-rate laser pulses

High-repetition-rate pulsed lasers serve a wide range of applications, from optical communications to microwave photonics and…

Bats depend on teamwork when foraging over farmland

Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) have reported in a paper…

New carbon dot-based method for increasing the efficiency of solar cells and LEDs

An international group of scientists, including some from ITMO University, has proposed a method that allows…

In cellular biology, mistakes can be good

Mistakes are rarely rewarded. Intuitively, one would imagine that a shoddy typist at an office who…

Experiments in mice and human cells shed light on best way to deliver nanoparticle therapy for cancer

Researchers in the cancer nanomedicine community debate whether use of tiny structures, called nanoparticles, can best…

COVID-19 – AMSAT-UK Online Shop Remains Open

Folks, it’s everywhere, and affecting everybody. We have carefully examined our processes and determined that, given…

Uncorrected Design Flaws, Cyber-Vulnerabilities, and Unreliability Plague the F-35 Program

As the F-35 program limps toward the end of its much-delayed operational testing period and subsequent…