Giant comet found in outer solar system by Dark Energy Survey

A giant comet from the outskirts of our solar system has been discovered in six years…

Smart wound dressings with built-in healing sensors

Researchers have developed smart wound dressings with built-in nanosensors that glow to alert patients when a…

An atlas of the bumblebee brain

The buff-tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris is one of the most common bumblebee species in Europe. It…

Deep machine learning completes information about one million bioactive molecules

The Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology laboratory, led by ICREA Researcher Dr. Patrick Aloy, has completed…

Could life exist in the atmosphere of a sub-Neptune planet?

Earth is perfectly suited for organic life. It stands to reason then that similar worlds orbiting…

Advances in intracellular spaces with de novo designed peptide

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have set out to harness the potential of…

History of Antarctic ice sheets holds clues for our future

A new study from researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) on how the world’s largest…

Synthesizing green gold nanoparticles for cancer therapy with biomolecules

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have designed an eco-friendly protocol for synthesizing gold…

Astronauts Can't Do Laundry In Space — But That Could Change Soon

Astronauts just throw out dirty clothes. NASA and Procter & Gamble are creating experimental cleaning products…

Unique use of ESA spacecraft ‘housekeeping’ data reveals cosmic ray behaviour

Using data originally gathered for spacecraft ‘housekeeping’ aboard ESA’s Rosetta and Mars Express missions, scientists have…