New graphene-based device is first step toward ultrasensitive biosensors

Researchers have developed a unique new device using the wonder material graphene that provides the first…

Mouse model validates how ‘good’ and ‘bad’ bacteria affect acne

Researchers have generated a new mouse model that mimics human acne for the first time, and…

Zero-emission diesel combustion using a non-equilibrium-plasma-assisted MnO<sub>2</sub> filter

Engineers have used ozone from an atmospheric-pressure non-equilibrium plasma together with the desulfurization catalyst MnO2 to…

Tiny DNA reader to advance development of anticancer drugs

Researchers have developed a novel method to determine exactly where anticancer drug molecules are incorporated into…

Embryogenesis: Elucidating cellular responses to force

Accumulated evidence suggests that physical force plays an important role in various developmental processes of fertilized…

Child’s elevated mental ill-health risk if mother treated for infection during pregnancy

Risks for autism and depression are higher if one's mother was in hospital with an infection…

Insects in decline: On farmland, latecomers lose out

Wild bees in Europe are in trouble -- more than 50 percent of local species are…

Shifting away from coal is key to cutting greenhouse gas emissions

The United States could fulfill its greenhouse gas emission pledge under the Paris Climate Agreement by…

Crucial milestone for critically endangered bird

A team led by a conservation biologist has successfully relocated threatened Seychelles paradise flycatchers (Terpsiphone corvina)…

When semiconductors stick together, materials go quantum

Researchers have developed a simple method that could turn ordinary semiconducting materials into quantum machines --…