"Simulated Arrakihs mock image of a galaxy halo". Credit: Alex Camazón (IEEC), AMC The European Space Agency (ESA) has formally adopted its Arrakihs mission, a project designed to study faint galaxy haloes and uncover the…
From fungi to humans, ‘smart valves’ assist communication…
[caption id="attachment_14298" align="alignnone" width="620"] The new research relied on an apparatus devised by Edwin Chapman and his colleagues that can, for the first time, record exactly when the fusion pore opens and closes. PHOTO: DAVID…
HKBU study reveals human skin flakes lead to…
Skin squames are a source of food for the bacteria found in air-cooling units, which produce odours even in a dust-free air-conditioning system, a research by Hong Kong Baptist University scholars revealed. [caption id="attachment_14290" align="alignnone"…
Two-stage gas sensor reports on soil dynamics
Rice University's next-level, nondisruptive biosensor delivers robust report on microbes' health, activity [caption id="attachment_14286" align="alignnone" width="947"] Rice University graduate student Hsiao-Ying (Shelly) Cheng led a project to develop two-stage microbial sensors that can observe and…
Tunis wetlands
[caption id="attachment_14283" align="alignnone" width="657"] Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2017), processed by ESA[/caption] This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image features Tunisia’s capital Tunis, in North Africa, and highlights some of the country’s important wetlands. Captured on…