New way to wrap liquid drops could improve drug delivery

Researchers have developed a faster, cheaper way to coat liquid medication, an invention that could improve…

Ants: Jam-free traffic champions

Whether they occur on holiday routes or the daily commute, traffic jams affect cars as well…

Lead isotopes a new tool for tracking coal ash

Inhaling dust that contains fly ash particles from coal combustion has been linked to lung and…

By cutting out one gene, researchers remove a tadpole's ability to regenerate

Tadpoles of frogs that can typically regrow amputated tails or limbs lost their ability to regenerate…

3-D printing, bioinks create implantable blood vessels

A biomimetic blood vessel was fabricated using a modified 3-D cell printing technique and bioinks, which…

Much of the Earth is still wild, but threatened by fragmentation

Half of the Earth’s land surface not covered with ice remains relatively wild—but many of these…

Scientists discover mechanisms that protect tapeworms from being digested by their host

A team of scientists from Tyumen together with colleagues found and described previously unknown tapeworm proteins…

Snap! How the camera took over the world

Photographs tell a story beyond words. They can entertain, scandalise, educate and generate emotion. Billions of…

Mix master: Modeling magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasma

Many of the most dramatic events in the solar system—the spectacle of the Northern Lights, the…

Neural network technique identifies mechanisms of ferroelectric switching

Innovations in material science are as essential to modern life as indoor plumbing—and go about as…