Global climate change concerns for Africa’s Lake Victoria
UH researcher develops model to project lake levels in world's largest tropical lakeCredit: Emily Beverly Global climate change could cause ...
Month: November 2019
Breakthrough in malaria research
Credit: Institut für Zellbiologie, Universität Bern Despite great efforts in medicine and science, more than 400,000 people worldwide are still ...
Bottlebrushes rise up to control coatings
Rice University engineers find bottlebrush copolymers can be tailored for applicationsCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 14, 2019) - ...
A turbocharger for the supercomputer JUWELS
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Atos and ParTec with NVIDIA and Mellanox plan expansion of the Jülich supercomputerCredit: Copyright: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Ralf-Uwe ...
A step closer to cancer precision medicine
Credit: University of Helsinki Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM) at the University ...
New material breaks world record turning heat into electricity
A new type of material generates electrical current very efficiently from temperature differences. This allows sensors and small processors to ...
Sociable crows are healthier — new research
Study shows link between health and size of social groupCredit: Photo by Dr Claudia Wascher, Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) A ...
Architecture of a bacterial power plant decrypted
Credit: Rudolf-Virchow-Zentrum / University of Würzburg Both humans and many other creatures need oxygen for survival. In the conversion of ...
FEFU scientists obtained new compounds with potential antitumor effect from sea sponge
Credit: FEFU press office Chemists from Far Eastern Federal University's School of Natural Sciences (SNS FEFU) developed a new method ...
Tailor-made carbon helps pinpoint hereditary diseases and correct medication dosage
A new method of analysis is speeding up the researchCredit: Anja Aarva / Aalto University Sensors manufactured with carbon-based materials ...
Observing changes in the chirality of molecules in real time
Credit: ETH Zurich / Joachim Schnabl Some molecules can exist in two mirror-image forms, similar to our hands. Although such ...
Simulation reveals how bacterial organelle converts sunlight to chemical energy
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists have simulated every atom of a light-harvesting structure in a ...
Typhoons and marine eutrophication are probably the missing source of organic nitrogen in ecosystems
Credit: Ming Chang Atmospheric nitrogen deposition has a significant impact on both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and alterations in its ...
Research award for project on heart transplantation
Credit: Steven Kohl Heart failure is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In the most severe ...
Bacteria in the gut may alter ageing process, finds NTU Singapore study
Credit: NTU Singapore An international research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has found that microorganisms living ...
Crystal coatings could help solve mystery of fracture patterns
Credit: Lander et al. Fractures are everywhere. They are the cracks in the sidewalk. The rifts in roadcuts. The spidery ...
New study casts doubt on China’s organ donation data
Credit: Benjamin John Keough, ANU The Chinese government may have been systematically misreporting the number of organs it claims it ...
Turning waste heat into hydrogen fuel
Using waste heat helps cut cost of producing hydrogenCredit: Illustration: NTNU In June, the International Energy Agency confirmed what most ...
Gallium-based solvating agent efficiently analyzes optically active alcohols
Credit: KAIST A KAIST research team has developed a gallium-based metal complex enabling the rapid chiral analysis of alcohols. A ...
Space-based radar suggests North Korean nuke equivalent to ’17 Hiroshimas’
Credit: ESA / ATG medialab North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It ...
