Designing viral diagnostic tests for point-of-care use involves many trade-offs. Yet ease of use, low cost and accuracy shouldnt be compromised. An ideal point-of-care test to check for infection (o… [+7681 chars]
The Oklahoma gigantic jet of light. (Photo: Chris Holmes) You've probably seen some spectacular bolts of lightning descend from roiling thunder clouds, but did you know that these powerful electrica… [+3828 chars]
This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. Anyone who has ever had a pesky pet hair stuck to their clothes can sympathize with the situation NASA's Perseverance Mar… [+2036 chars]
<li>Ahmedt-Aristizabal, D., Armin, M. A., Denman, S., Fookes, C. & Petersson, L. A survey on graph-based deep learning for computational histopathology. Comput. Med. Imaging Graph.95, 102027 (202… [+1116 chars]
Debris from the most spectacular comet outburst ever is visible from Earth this month and astronomers hope the observations might shed some light on the puzzling event that brightened up the sky in 2… [+3571 chars]
Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made progress in the preparation of mixture-based quarter-wave plate laser beam splitter (… [+2874 chars]
The asteroid Ryugu is located roughly 300 million kilometers from Earth. It completes an orbit around the Sun every 16 months, and many believe an asteroid like it helped fuel the origin of water on … [+2430 chars]
My heart is broken. I received a phone call this past Tuesday (Aug. 9) from Michele Machholz, informing me that her husband Don died early that morning. Donald Edward Machholz, born Oct. 7, 1952 … [+4327 chars]
image: External views of mouse embryos after 10.5 days of embryonic development. The embryos on the left show a technique for revealing where individual genes are expressed (Wnt1, Wnt5a and Wnt11). T… [+4436 chars]
The NASA-built James Webb satellite telescope is mostly used for infrared astronomy. It can study objects that are too early, far away, or dark for the Hubble Orbit Telescope, the largest optical tel… [+1264 chars]
Soft and bumpy: work on soft airwater interfaces was pioneered over 10 years ago. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Grayson) Scientists in the US have found evidence that the surface of liquid water, even at … [+4049 chars]
The initial tsunami wave created by the eruption of the underwater Hunga Tonga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga in January 2022 reached 90 metres in height, around nine times taller than that from the highly… [+4320 chars]