Charge-based strategy improves controlled delivery of therapeutic peptides from gelatin-based materials

Rice University engineers have developed a new strategy for controlling how therapeutic peptides are released from ...

Oldest known giant rock scallop bead suggests California coastal trade began millennia earlier

Archaeologists have discovered two giant rock scallop beads that push back the clock on the first appearance of these high-status ornaments. The discovery shows that these prized marine beads were ...

'Flying focus' laser overcomes key limitation in plasma-based particle accelerators

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers accelerated electrons to more than twice the energy predicted by the traditional ...

Pulsed radiofrequency magnetic fields may disorient migratory birds, experiments suggest

Every year, millions of migratory birds travel between different geographical regions on Earth to find food, escape cold ...

The asteroid that may be three worlds

Nysa, the honest answer until now has been that nobody knew. It is one of the brightest and largest E-type asteroids in the main belt, a class with a surface rich in enstatite, and its oddness has ...

Dodo birds more clever than we thought

The Mauritian dodo—a global symbol of human-caused extinction and one of the world's largest pigeons—may not have deserved ...

Dodos probably weren't as stupid as historians made them out to be: new research

The dodo has been extinct for more than 300 years, wiped out within decades of humans arriving on its home island of ...

How winter canola could profit Illinois farmers, improve sustainability

A new simulation study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign suggests winter canola could be profitable and ...

Reduced gravity pushes people toward simpler movement patterns, experiments suggest

From reaching for a cup of coffee to tying your shoelaces, gravity shapes nearly all human movement. So how do our bodies ...

Silver nanocatalysts switch reaction sites between power generation and hydrogen production

For the first time, researchers have discovered that the same silver (Ag) nanocatalyst operates at different reaction sites ...

Gut cells may measure hunger by how watery their insides become

Researchers led by Sa Kan Yoo at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have discovered that the ...

Researchers unlock high-res view of 2D materials by doing a microscopic twist

By rapidly twisting a microscopically small tip back and forth, researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have unlocked ...