Riddle of Kondo effect solved in ultimately thin wires

A research team has now directly measured the so-called Kondo effect, which governs the behavior of…

Surveilling wetlands for infectious bird flu — and finding it

Recently, morning omelets and holiday dinners have gotten more expensive. One likely cause is bird flu,…

Climate engineering could slow Antarctic ice loss

A study reports that scattering sunlight-reflecting particles in the atmosphere — a theoretical form of climate…

Scientists 3D-print hair follicles in lab-grown skin

Scientists have 3D-printed hair follicles in human skin tissue cultured in the lab. This marks the…

Printed robots with bones, ligaments, and tendons

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and…

Novel C. diff structures are required for infection, offer new therapeutic targets

Newly discovered iron storage ‘ferrosomes’ inside the bacterium C. diff — the leading cause of hospital-acquired…

James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor, sulfur dioxide and sand clouds in the atmosphere of a nearby exoplanet

Astronomers have used recent observations made with the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmosphere…

New laser setup probes metamaterial structures with ultrafast pulses

A new technique offers a safe, reliable, and high-throughput way to dynamically characterize microscale metamaterials. The method could…

This 3D printer can watch itself fabricate objects

Engineers have developed a high-throughput, multimaterial 3D inkjet printer that uses computer vision to rapidly and…

Not so silver lining: Microplastics found in clouds could affect the weather

From the depths of the seas to snow on mountains and even the air above cities,…