The stiffest porous lightweight materials ever

Researchers have developed and manufactured a family of architectures that maximizes the stiffness of porous lightweight…

Light-induced modification of a carboxylic acid with an aminocyclopropenone

Researchers report that carboxylic acids, functional groups contained in biomolecules, drugs, and materials can be readily…

New foldable drone flies through narrow holes in rescue missions

A research team has developed a new drone that can retract its propeller arms in flight…

Researchers reverse engineer way pine trees produce green chemicals worth billions

Researchers have reverse engineered the way a pine tree produces a resin, which could serve as…

Development of world’s first vertical Ga2O3 transistor through ion implantation doping

Researchers at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and Tokyo University of Agriculture…

New method for studying ALS more effectively

The neurodegenerative disease ALS causes motor neuron death and paralysis. However, long before the cells die,…

New model in the fight against African swine fever

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published a new scientific report on the current status…

Your weight history may predict your heart failure risk

In a medical records analysis of information gathered on more than 6,000 people, researchers conclude that…

‘Eavesdropping’ on groupers’ mating calls key to survival

Many fish produce sounds for courtship and mating, navigation, and defending their territories. Scientists analyze these…

Declining snowpack over Western US mapped at a finer scale

Researchers mapped the changes in snow mass from 1982 to 2016 onto a grid of squares…