An astronaut smart glove to explore the moon, Mars and beyond

The NASA Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) and collaborating organizations SETI Institute, Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center,…

Ancient gas cloud shows that the first stars must have formed very quickly

Astronomers led by Eduardo Bañados of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered a gas…

The largest seabirds in the North Atlantic travel hundreds of miles just to catch food

Gannets, the largest seabirds in the North Atlantic, can travel hundreds of miles from their homes…

Cage molecules act as molecular sieves for hydrogen isotope separation

A new hybrid material developed by scientists at the University of Liverpool may bring the dream…

Researchers build a silicon-graphene-germanium transistor for future THz operation

In 1947, the first transistor, a bipolar junction transistor (BJT), was invented in the Bell Laboratory…

Artificial cell division a step closer to reality

Researchers at TU Delft have succeeded in replicating a biological mechanism that is essential for cell…

Soil bacteria found to use several approaches in 'suppressive soils' to protect plants

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in The Netherlands and two in Brazil has…

Echolocation found to be cheap for deep-diving whales

A new international study led by Aarhus University in Denmark, in collaboration with the Universities of…

New monitoring technque lets your remotely operated vehicle do the snorkelling

They have been trialling their new method, which involves using Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) as a…

Differences in human and non-human primate saliva may be caused by diet

Humans are known to be genetically similar to our primate relatives. But major differences can be…