Scientists quantify global volcanic CO2 venting; estimate total carbon on Earth

Volcanoes, colliding and spreading continental and oceanic plates, and other phenomena re-studied with innovative high-tech tools,…

How to bend flat glass perfectly around corners

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM have developed a new process that…

New method improves measurement of animal behavior using deep learning

A new toolkit goes beyond existing machine learning methods by measuring body posture in animals with…

Lab-made blood vessels: Mechanics matters

Biodegradable tubes that turn into living blood vessels once implanted in the human body. In an…

Researchers open a new path to end citric fruit alternate bearing

Researchers of Valencia’s Polytechnic University and international collaborators have established the epigenetic mechanism through which citrus…

A metronome for quantum particles

A new measurement protocol, developed at TU Wien (Vienna), makes it possible to measure the quantum…

High-value chemicals for pharmaceuticals could be made cheaper and greener by new catalysts

High value chemicals used to make pharmaceuticals could be made much cheaper and quicker thanks to…

High-resolution RNA-sequencing enables detection of disease at its earliest stages

Researchers in Sweden and the U.S. have devised a new method for studying individual cells in…

Physicist suggests 'quantum foam' may explain away huge cosmic energy

Steven Carlip, a physicist at the University of California, has come up with a theory to…

Rotation on an eight-shaped path

Chemical engineers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany, have developed the first molecular motor that enables…