Ancient Paper Art Kirigami May Be Key to Improving Smart Clothing
Like a yoga novice, electronic components don’t stretch easily. But that’s changing thanks to a variation of origami, known as kirigami, that involves cutti...
Is Food Packaging Affecting Nutrient Absorption in Your Body? Maybe
Food packaging may be be having an impact on your body's nutrient absorption. “We found that zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles at doses that are relevant to what...
Ultrafast Laser Beam Steering for Autonomous Cars
Researchers at Purdue University and Stanford University believe they have found a novel laser light sensing technology that is more robust and less expensiv...
The Not So Healthy Toxins Produced by E-Cigarettes
The flavor of e-cigarettes may affect more than a consumer’s taste buds, according to Penn State researchers, who say the chemicals that make up different fla...
New Method to Harvest Water From Desert Air
There is a new method to harvest water from desert air. It seems like getting something for nothing, but you really can get drinkable water right out of the dri...
Neutrino Experiment Delivers an Unprecedented Measurement
A tiny particle known as a neutrino is an excellent tool to study the inner workings of atomic nuclei. Unlike electrons or protons, neutrinos have no electric c...
You May Have Cocaine or Heroin on Your Fingerprints: Here’s Why
Scientists have found that drugs are now so prevalent that 13 per cent of those taking part in a test were found to have traces of class A drugs on their finger...
Cocoa Bean Roasting Can Preserve Both Health Benefits and Taste
Manipulating the temperature and the length of time for cocoa bean roasting can simultaneously preserve and even boost the potency of some bioactive and antioxi...
Scientists Discover Junk DNA Not So Junk
Researchers at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have determined how satellite DNA, considered to be "j...
The Pacific Ocean Takes the Hit From Tiangong-1
The Chinese space lab, Tiangong-1, was in the news for all the wrong reasons. The media frenzy over the school bus-sized space station suggested that bits of it...
