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Tech Xplore / Novel OLED design doubles screen brightness while preserving flat display structure
Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are widely used in smartphones and TVs thanks to their excellent color reproduction and thin, flexible planar structure. However, internal light loss has limited further improvements ...
Phys.org / Nightingales strike right chord in territorial singing duels
During conversation, people sometimes synchronize their voices in ways that often go completely unnoticed. Talking speeds converge, sentence lengths shift, turn-taking rhythms fall into sync. New research from the Max Planck ...
Phys.org / High-speed AFM imaging reveals how brain enzyme forms a dodecameric ring structure
Scientists at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation.
Medical Xpress / Mechanism behind persistent autoimmune joint destruction revealed in new study
Nearly 1.5 million Americans and nearly 5% of women over the age of 55 have rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an incurable autoimmune disease marked by joint inflammation and subsequent damage. Despite advances in treatment, such ...
Phys.org / Genomic study uncovers button mushroom's evolutionary and domestication history
A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus), one of the most widely cultivated edible fungi in the world.
Phys.org / El Niño events projected to cut life expectancy gains and cost trillions by 2100
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the planet's greatest driver of year-to-year climate swings, shapes temperature, rainfall, and extreme weather around the world. Its impact ranges from heat waves and floods to air ...
Medical Xpress / A new tool could tell us how consciousness works
Consciousness is famously a "hard problem" of science: We don't precisely know how the physical matter in our brains translates into thoughts, sensations, and feelings. But an emerging research tool called transcranial focused ...
Phys.org / Surprise discovery reveals silica's hidden potential in flat optics
An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, to make optical metasurfaces—ultra-thin, flat structures that control light at the nanoscale and ...
Phys.org / Major gaps in global satellite maps of forests raise policy concerns
For decades, global efforts to combat climate change and protect biodiversity have relied on a high-tech promise: that satellite-derived maps can tell us exactly where the world's forests are.
Medical Xpress / Little-known enzyme could supercharge immune cells to tackle cancer
Supercharging immune cells could provide an effective way to tackle cancer, according to new research by scientists in Scotland.
Phys.org / Queen conch's hopping behavior helps set new conservation guidance
A new study published in Conservation Biology examines the behavior and distribution of queen conch (Aliger gigas) to guide conservation management for the threatened sea snail.
Medical Xpress / X-raying auditory ossicles: New technique reveals structures in record time
Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have refined an X-ray diffraction technique for detecting biological structures from nanometers to millimeters—reducing the time needed to make the measurement from around one ...
