Children who overreact to stressors may be at risk of becoming overweight or obese, according…
Month: February 2013
Highly flexible organic semiconductors: Research paves way for thin-sheet plastic displays or wearable electronics
Physicists have demonstrated extremely flexible organic semiconductors that withstood multiple bending cycles in which the…
Engineers are catching rainbows: Material that slows light opens new possibilities in solar energy, other fields
Engineers have created a more efficient way to catch rainbows, an advancement in photonics that…
Shifting sands: Force is the key to granular state-shifting
Ever wonder why sand can both run through an hourglass like a liquid and be…
‘Bionic proteins’: Nano-machines recreate protein activities
Physicists have developed nano-machines which recreate principal activities of proteins. They present the first versatile…
New insect: Spectacular forcepfly species discovered for the first time in South America
Austromerope is a genus of forcepflies, whose representatives are rare and mostly restricted in distribution….
Breakthrough architecture for quantum computers proposed
Scientists have proposed a new computational model that may become the architecture for a scalable…
Researchers find potential new therapeutic target for treating non-small cell lung cancer
Researchers have found a potential targeted therapy for patients with tobacco-associated non-small cell lung cancer….
Bisphenol A exposure in humans may be too low to cause problems by mimicking estrogen
A controversial component of plastic bottles and canned food linings that have helped make a…
Modern life may cause sun exposure, skin pigmentation mismatch
As people move more often and become more urbanized, skin color — an adaptation that…