Bees latch on to similarly-sized nectarless flowers to unpick pollen – like keys fitting into…
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Scientific discovery may change treatment of Parkinson
When monitoring Parkinson’s disease, SPECT imaging of the brain is used for acquiring information on…
New rare muscle disorder discovered
A new rare muscle disorder has been identified by researchers. This hereditary disease is caused…
New Hope for the Saiga Antelope?
The Saiga Antelope, which is currently threatened with extinction, used to be much more flexible…
People afraid of robots are much more likely to fear losing their jobs and suffer anxiety-related mental health issues, study finds
“Technophobes” — people who fear robots, artificial intelligence and new technology that they don’t understand…
Producing radioisotopes for medical imaging, disease treatment
Accelerators built to explore the building blocks of matter help to feed the nation’s need…
A new model for capillary rise in nano-channels offers insights into improved hydraulic fracturing (fracking)
With fracking, scientists have calculated the expected level of capillary rise with the Lucas-Washburn equation,…
Spintronic technology advances with newly designed magnetic tunnel junctions
Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) have played a central role in spintronic devices, and researchers are…
Revealing the microscopic mechanisms in perovskite solar cells
In just a few years, researchers have achieved remarkable power conversion efficiency with materials with…
Estimating the glass transition temperature for polymers in ‘confined geometries’
Polystyrene has a glass transition temperature of about 100 C — at room temperature it…