Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)

  “The century’s biggest and most difficult scientific undertaking,”   While laser fusion has been touted as the Holy Grail of sustainable energy, set to free the world from the environmental and political problems of carbon-based alternatives, a recent report questioned whether scientists are on track. While the report in Physics Today painted a dim

At TEDxPeachtree, bioethicist Paul Root Wolpe describes an astonishing series of recent bio-engineering experiments, from hybrid pets to mice that grow human ears. He asks: isn’t it time to set some ground rules? Paul Root Wolpe directs the Center for Ethics at Emory University,  where he works on the biggest issues most of us face in

An international team of including the Lomonosov Moscow State University researchers discovered which enzyme enables Escherichia coli bacterium (E. coli) to breathe. The study is published in the Scientific Reports. There is a prospect of a new type of antibiotics “turning off” the oxygen only to the harmful bacteria cells, not to human cells. Scientists

3-D printing turns nanomachines into life-size workers Chenfeng Ke, CC BY-ND Chenfeng Ke, Dartmouth College Nanomachines are tiny molecules – more than 10,000 lined up side by side would be narrower than the diameter of a human hair – that can move when they receive an external stimulus. They can already deliver medication within a

Bioethanol from new lines of native perennial prairie grass could become less costly because of plant engineering by The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation and fermentation research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In a paper published in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe their transgenic version of switchgrass as one that produces about

The ephemeral now has value, at least for users of cellphones. More than 60 million photos or messages are sent each day through an app called Snapchat and then, after they are viewed for a few seconds, the missives vanish. That disappearing act — and a volume that is over a tenth of the well-established Facebook’s —

“We could potentially create new materials with unusual properties that have never existed,” By creating atomic chains in a two-dimensional crystal, researchers at Penn State believe they have found a way to control the direction of materials properties in two and three dimensional crystals with implications in sensing, optoelectronics and next-generation electronics applications. Whether an