OCR4all: Modern tool for old texts

Historians and other humanities’ scholars often have to deal with difficult research objects: centuries-old printed works…

Scientists develop low-cost energy-efficient materials

An international team of scientists from the National University of Science and Technology “MISIS” (NUST MISIS),…

Uncovering Polynya: Research unravels 43-year-old mystery in Antarctica

A study led by NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Research Scientist Diana Francis has unraveled the four…

NASA's InSight detects first likely 'quake' on Mars

NASA’s Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely ‘marsquake’.…

Study shows British and Japanese people have very similar touching rules

A team of researchers with members from Finland, Japan, the U.K., Germany and Singapore has found…

Plant signals trigger remarkable bacterial transformation

The cycad Cycas revoluta is a palm-like plant that grows on rocky coastal cliffs in the…

Field trial with neonicotinoids: Honeybees are much more robust than bumblebees

The insecticide clothianidin affects different species of bees in different ways. While it has no demonstrably…

New chemical tool to block endocytosis in plants identified

Plant cells absorb many important substances through a process called endocytosis. In plants, endocytosis is essential…

Quantum gas turns supersolid

Researchers led by Francesca Ferlaino from the University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Academy of Sciences…

Can we solve the riddle of the coral reef halos?

Patches of coral reef are often surrounded by very large ‘halos’ of bare sand that are…