Improving skills would boost growth and job creation in France
France’s economy is growing and the labour market is gradually improving. However, the share of people out of work for more than 12 months remains high and many young people are on temporary contracts, with weak long-term job prospects and little...
First Light for ESPRESSO — the Next Generation Planet Hunter
The Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) has successfully made its first...
Researchers advance technique to detect ovarian cancer: Rice, MD Anderson use fluorescent carbon nanotube probes to achieve first in vivo success
Rice University and MD Anderson researchers have developed a technique that uses fluorescent nanotube-based probes to locate specific...
Going swimmingly: Biotemplates breakthrough paves way for cheaper nanobots: By using bacterial flagella as a template for silica, researchers have demonstrated an easier way to make propulsion systems for nanoscale swimming robots
Trajectory of a templated helical silica nanoswimmer manually controlled to move in an approximate figure-eight pattern; scale bar is 5 μm...
MUSE Probes Uncharted Depths of Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey...
A transistor of graphene nanoribbons: Breakthrough in Nanoelectronics
The microscopic ribbons lie criss-crossed on the gold substrate.
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Drug-delivering nanoparticles seek and destroy elusive cancer stem cells
Illinois researchers developed nanoparticles that can target cancer stem cells (yellow), the rare cells within a tumor (blue) that can...
NASA Builds its Next Mars Rover Mission
his artist's rendition depicts NASA's Mars 2020 rover studying a Mars rock outrcrop. The mission will not only seek...
