Amino acid detected in space
The detection of glycine in the Milky Way could help us understand the origins of life in the universe
‘Gecko tape’ sticks with polymer fibres
Physicists have made adhesive tape that does not rely on glue
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Insects stay cool with thermoelectricity
Israeli researchers have found the first natural heat pump in a living creature
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Tinnitus treatment tones up
Physicists have devised a new model that could help sufferers of tinnitus
Physicists investigate brain power
Israeli researchers have created electrically active networks of neurons in the lab
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Light flashes investigated on Mir
Physicists have come closer to explaining the causes of light-flashes in space
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MEMs see the light
Electrode implants could provide a cure for blindness
Geckos’ feet get sticky from static
Van der Waals forces – not capillary action – allow the lizards to walk on the ceiling
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Innovations boost disabled literacy
Physicists have developed tools to help disabled people to write and blind people to read
DNA goes spintronic
The molecules that carry genetic data notch up another surprising property
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