Examining how advanced materials should be safe and sustainable

In a joint recommendation, the German higher federal authorities draw a picture of how the development…

Gold solution to catalysis grand challenge

A simple, low-cost method of directly converting natural gas into useful chemicals and fuels, using the…

New insights into asthma drug development

Asthma is one of the most common chronic respiratory diseases worldwide and its prevalence is on…

Zoo air contains enough DNA to identify the animals inside

The air in a zoo is full of smells, from the fish used for feed to…

Unexpected hope for millions as bleached coral reefs continue to supply nutritious seafood

Researchers studying coral reefs damaged by rising sea temperatures have discovered an unexpected ‘bright spot’ of…

Fingerprint patterns are linked to limb development genes

In the most comprehensive analysis to date, researchers found that the shapes of fingerprints—whether they are…

'Simple' bacteria found to organize in elaborate patterns

Over the past several years, research from University of California San Diego biologist Gürol Süel’s laboratory…

Researchers detect two-dimensional kagome surface states

Kogome lattices have become a new focus in the study of condensed matter physics for their…

Terahertz light-driven spin-lattice control: A new potential path to faster and more efficient data storage

An international team of researchers from the University of Cologne (Germany), Radboud University Nijmegen (The Netherlands),…

Super-resolved imaging of a single cold atom on a nanosecond timescale

The team of academician Guo Guangcan of University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy…