The Hunga TongaHunga Haapai volcano eruption on 15 January produced the largest atmospheric explosion in recorded history.Credit: NASA/GOES/NOAA/NESDIS Researchers are starting to piece together why… [+6328 chars]
Clouds of ultralight particles can form around rotating black holes. A team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam and Harvard University now show that these clouds would leave a characterist… [+3008 chars]
Corals react to changes in their environment. This is true for tropical as well as cold-water corals and includes, among others, changes in temperature, salinity and pH values. MARUM researchers, in … [+3546 chars]
An international team of astronomers, led by Yamila Miguel (SRON/Leiden Observatory), has found that Jupiter’s gaseous envelope doesn’t have a homogeneous distribution. The inner part has more metals… [+3271 chars]
The interaction between a heated oil bath and water droplets commonly occurs in the kitchen. It has essential implications for cooking, fire safety, and indoor air pollution. In a new study, scienti… [+2420 chars]
Shortly after dinosaurs got their start during the Triassic period, little furry mammals began scurrying underfoot, using their powerful teeth to chomp down on plants, insects and even — eventually —… [+15999 chars]
Scientists have recently developed a nanoprobe using red blood cell membrane-coated ultrasmall NaGdF4 nanoparticles. The nanoprobe exhibited improved longitudinal molar relaxivity compared to the cli… [+6154 chars]
Bacteria temporarily live without their cell wall if dangerous viruses are near. A remarkable feature, as the cell wall is a sturdy barrier against threats. Still, the discovery has a logical explana… [+3047 chars]
Enlarge/ The new research hasn't made a breakthrough, but it has shrunk the size of the question mark a bit. 71 with 47 posters participating How can we understand environments that can't be replic… [+4258 chars]
A study integrating biological ideas and new computer science tools has uncovered novel associations between genetic coding and protein structure, which could potentially change the way we think abou… [+5343 chars]
Bacteria temporarily live without their cell wall if dangerous viruses are near. A remarkable feature, as the cell wall is a sturdy barrier against threats. Still, the discovery has a logical explana… [+3047 chars]
Solid-state nanofluidic channels are promising tools for selective sensing of analytes. However, delayed interaction of recognition moieties with analytes hinders their application in rapid detection… [+6072 chars]
