Plants & Animals
May 5, 2021
Large bumblebees start work earlier
Larger bumblebees are more likely to go out foraging in the low light of dawn, new research shows.
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Economics & Business
Apr 29, 2021
Reliability of digital tags measuring clothing durability results in positive consumer attitudes
The Sustainability Consortium released Wednesday, April 28, the report "Project WearEver: Demonstrating the Feasibility of Using Digital Tags to Measure Clothing Use," in collaboration with Arizona State University, North ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2021
Great tits change their traditions for the better
Researchers at the University of Konstanz and Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior in Germany have found that birds are able to change their culture to become more efficient. Populations of great tits were able to switch ...
Nanophysics
Feb 4, 2021
Newly discovered graphene property could impact next-generation computing
MIT researchers and colleagues have discovered an important—and unexpected—electronic property of graphene, a material discovered only about 17 years ago that continues to surprise scientists with its interesting physics. ...
Nanophysics
Dec 8, 2020
Nanoelectromechanical tags for tamper-proof product identification and authentication
Researchers in cybersecurity aim to realize truly unclonable identification and authentication tags to defend global systems from ever-increasing counterfeit attacks. In a new report now published on Nature: Microsystems ...
General Physics
Sep 22, 2020
Physicists develop printable organic transistors
Scientists at the Institute of Applied Physics at TU Dresden have come a step closer to the vision of a broad application of flexible, printable electronics. The team around Dr. Hans Kleemann has succeeded for the first time ...
Economics & Business
May 13, 2020
Blockchain: forget the criminal record, it might just save your life: study
Blockchain, the technology that underpins digital currency and has acquired a slightly tainted reputation as a useful tool for organised crime, is coming out of the shadows and is set to become a friend to consumers, protecting ...
Materials Science
Apr 14, 2020
A new material to print mechanically robust and shape-shifting structures
In recent years, 3-D printing has opened up interesting new possibilities for the large-scale production of electronic components, as well as of a variety of other objects. To this end, research teams worldwide have been ...
Materials Science
Mar 10, 2020
Making more MXene: Researchers unveil a scalable production system for the promising, 2-D nanomaterials
For more than a decade, two-dimensional nanomaterials, such as graphene, have been touted as the key to making better microchips, batteries, antennas and many other devices. But a significant challenge of using these atom-thin ...
Space Exploration
Nov 6, 2019
132 grams to communicate with Mars
Dust storms, ionising cosmic radiation, extreme cold at night ... Mars is not very hospitable! It's for these extreme conditions that the research team of Christophe Craeye, a professor at the UCLouvain Louvain School of ...
