Scientists improve pancreatic cancer diagnosis with multifunctional platinum nanoreactor

Metabolic analysis involves ongoing biological pathways and can be more distal than proteomic/genomic approaches to in…

Neutrino produced in a cosmic collider far away

The neutrino event IceCube 170922A, detected at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, appears…

Technology provides insight into the hunting behavior of white sharks

White sharks are top predators in the marine environment, but unlike their terrestrial counterparts, very little…

Can we peek at Schrodinger's cat without disturbing it?

Quantum physics is difficult and explaining it even more so. Associate Professor Holger F. Hofmann from…

Structural color printing of 3-D microscale objects by shrinking photonic crystals

In a report recently published in Nature Communications, a research group led by Associate Professor Joel…

'Ocean Cleanup' ship sweeps first Pacific plastic

A special ship designed to clean the oceans has harvested its first plastic from the Great…

A new act for opera

In November 1953, the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, Germany, staged a new opera, the composer Boris Blacher’s…

Unshackle schools from test results to give children the chance to form opinions

If political headlines globally are anything to go by, it seems democracy is at risk. Totalitarian…

Did a large meteorite hit the earth 12,800 years ago? Here's new evidence

Just less than 13,000 years ago, the climate cooled for a short while in many parts…

Why are there no animals with three legs?

If “Why?” is the first question in science, “Why not?” must be a close second. Sometimes…