One day, medical compounds could be introduced into cells with the help of bacterial toxins Pathogens can use a range of toxins to damage their host organism. Bacteria, such as those respons... Read more
A new algorithm allows video editors to modify talking head videos as if they were editing text – copying, pasting, or adding and deleting words. In television and film, actors often flub sm... Read more
A hydrogen-rich material becomes superconductive under high pressure and at minus 23 degrees Celsius Fewer power plants, less greenhouse gases and lower costs: enormous amounts of electricit... Read more
A species of fish, the cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus), responds to its reflection and attempts to remove marks on its body during the mirror test — a method held as the gold sta... Read more
Neural networks enable learning of error correction strategies for computers based on quantum physics Quantum computers could solve complex tasks that are beyond the capabilities of conventi... Read more
A project by a research agency of the US Department of Defense could easily be misused for developing biological weapons Owing to present-day armed conflicts, the general public is well awar... Read more
The International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space, or ICARUS, will be flying closer to the sun than ever when a pair of Russian cosmonauts installs the antennae for its state-of-... Read more
Max Planck researchers develop sustainable alternative to the most widely used antibodies and their controversial production in animals Antibodies are indispensable in biological research an... Read more
Using a mouse model, scientists from the RIKEN-Max Planck Joint Research Center for Systems Chemical Biology and a number of other institutes have identified a sugar molecule that reduced th... Read more
Electrical currents can be now be switched on and off at the smallest conceivable scale enabling a new generation of ‘green electronics’ with the potential for great impact on th... Read more