Researchers in Japan have adopted a new design method that optimizes both fiber thickness and orientation, achieving weight reduction in reinforced plastic and opening doors to lighter aircrafts and automobiles

Study: Mutations associated with autism can inhibit the release of the bonding hormone oxytocin and cause abnormal social behavior in mice

New screening method could lead to microbe-based replacements for chemical pesticides

Minty-Fresh: Using a Menthol-Like Compound to Activate Plant Immune Mechanisms

Scientists from Japan have successfully developed and tested a wearable biofuel cell array that generates electric power from the lactate in the wearer's sweat, opening doors to electronic health monitoring powered by nothing but bodily fluids

Scientists have developed novel hydrogels to effectively deliver drugs to tumor sites in response to temperature & pH changes

Researchers in Japan have developed a method to visualize distribution of lipids in liver using a near-infrared spectral imaging technique that incorporates machine learning

Scientists Discover Target for Stroke Therapy in Blood-Brain Barrier

Researchers from Japan have developed a novel minimally invasive and accurate method using infrared imaging and machine learning to distinguish between normal tissue and tumor areas

Scientists develop new biosensing device to chemically monitor the state of muscles during physical exercise

How a Cancer Drug Carrier's Structure Can Help Selectively Target Cancer Cells

Fertilizer made from urine could enable space agriculture

Scientists have found an energy-efficient method to fabricate a hard carbon electrode with enormously high sodium storage capacity

Scientists in Japan have succeeded in developing a new targeted cancer therapy and their method may be effective against intractable cancers

Scientists have developed a strategy for identifying criminals from a single strand of hair, leveraging the fact that hair dyes are becoming common

Scientists from the Tokyo University of Science have made a breakthrough in the development of potential drugs that can kill cancer cells

Scientists develop an energy-efficient strategy to reversibly change "spin orientation" or magnetization direction in magnetite at room temperature

Researchers have devised a strategy to produce large area moth-eye transparent films that greatly reduce reflectance and improve transmittance

Scientists design a novel quantum circuit that calculates the fast Fourier transform, an indispensable tool in engineering

Scientists from Japan have shed light on the effects of impurities at the atomic level, taking us closer to arriving at a practical way of efficiently harvesting waste heat from cars and thermal power plants to produce clean energy.

A New Way of Modulating Color Emissions from Transparent Films

Scientists from Japan have discovered that a natural food pigment can replace synthetic dyes in cell viability assays for three widely varied types of cells

Scientists explore a novel approach that can be used to early detect the onset of flutter, solving one of the main problems that has been holding back the design of turbines

Giant viruses, like the recently discovered medusavirus, may hold the key to deciphering the evolutionary mystery of the eukaryotic nucleus.

Scientists, including an undergraduate student, develop a novel method to produce an alkaline hydrogel that could be applied to healing wounds better

New study shows how infrared lasers destroy harmful protein aggregates in Alzheimer's

"Love Hormone" oxytocin could be used to treat cognitive disorders like Alzheimer's

A team of scientists at Japan's Tokyo University of Science has developed a fully automated chip that can quickly and reliably determine a patient's blood type

Scientists in Japan have developed a novel laser-based strategy for the effective degradation of cellulose into useful products

Researchers develop cryptographic scheme that completely hides personal information from third parties when using single sign-on systems

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