New high-capacity sodium-ion could replace lithium in rechargeable batteries

Scientists are paving the way to swap the lithium in lithium-ion batteries with sodium, according to…

Toward an ‘ultra-personalized’ therapy for melanoma

With new immunotherapy treatments for melanoma, recovery rates have risen dramatically, in some cases to around…

A prehistoric thirst for craft beer

Evidence suggests that stone mortars from Raqefet Cave, Israel, were used in brewing cereal-based beer millennia…

How key cancer-related enzyme functions

In a new study, researchers have discovered how an enzyme that plays a key role in…

Heart attack: Substitute muscle thanks to stem cells

Scientists have for the first time succeeded in generating beating cardiac muscle cells from special stem…

Cocaine addiction traced to increase in number of orexin neurons

A new study identifies a critical role of the orexin system in the expression of an…

In drought and heavy rains, ecosystems function like information communication networks

How is a telecommunications network like an ecosystem? Tree canopies and the running streams below, or…

Sensors that are literally ‘music to one’s ears’

Researchers have found a new use for a 3,000-year-old African musical instrument: detecting toxic substances and…

Detecting hydrogen using the extraordinary Hall effect in cobalt-palladium thin films

Researchers have conducted the first systematic study of hydrogen detection through the extraordinary Hall effect in…

A wearable device for regrowing hair

Although some people embrace the saying 'bald is beautiful,' for others, alopecia, or excessive hair loss,…