Understanding the evaporation process of binary sessile droplets is essential for optimizing various technical processes, such as inkjet printing or heat transfer. Liquid mixtures whose evaporation ...

As the gradient decays, the position of this threshold value moves at varying speed along the membrane, depending on the cell shape. Thus, via this hierarchy of protein concentration profiles, the ...

Gradients of chemical signal are thought to be important in conveying positional information both in individual cells and in whole organisms. Two papers recently published in Developmental Cell show ...

In a ground-breaking study, researchers report a new technique that allows them to visualize the distribution of retinoic acid in a live zebrafish embryo, in real-time. This technique enabled them to ...

The surface flux of nitric oxide from a wheat field was investigated from 23 March to 29 May 1997 in the Kerzersmoos, Switzerland. A plot fertilised with 19 kg N ha⁻¹ in cattle slurry and 40 kg N ha⁻¹ ...

Scientists have developed a novel approach that can help create safer and long-lasting lithium-ion batteries. Combined with an automated reactor system, the mathematical x-framework allows unlimited ...

Biophysicists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munch have developed a new theory, which accounts for the observation that cells can perceive their own shapes, and use this information to ...