ESO telescope images stunning central region of Milky Way, finds ancient star burst
Credit: ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al. ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has observed the central part of the Milky Way with spectacular ...
Month: December 2019
Birds’ seasonal migrations shift earlier as climate changes, new research shows
UMass Amherst, Colorado State, Cornell study analyzed 2 decades of migration dataCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In what the ...
New system transmits high-speed unrepeated signal over 520 kilometers
Credit: T8 Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have partnered up with engineers from Corning Inc., U.S., ...
Scientist breaks down chemistry in iconic cartoons: SpongeBob SquarePants and Popeye
Are bananas actually that slippery? Could spinach give you superhuman strength? And what the heck is Toon Acid? This week, ...
Plastic biosensor finds sweet success
Credit: © 2019 KAUST; Heno Hwang An electronic biosensor powered using the glucose in bodily fluids has been developed by ...
Climate change could make RSV respiratory infection outbreaks less severe, more common
Credit: Pixabay One of the first studies to examine the effect of climate change on diseases such as influenza that ...
New way to make biomedical devices from silk yields better products with tunable qualities
Using methods common to plastics manufacturing, properties of silk-based devices can be tuned for strength, flexibility, molecular function and biodegradabilityCredit: ...
Visual neurons don’t work the way scientists thought, study finds
Less than 10% of neurons in the mouse visual system behave the way scientists thought most such cells work to ...
From cancer medication to antibiotic
Modified cancer drug effective against multi-resistant bacteriaCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasingly the source of deadly infections. ...
Evolutionarily novel genes work in tumors
Scientists studied the tumor specifically expressed, evolutionarily novel (TSEEN) genesCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University A team of scientists ...
New heat model may help electronic devices last longer
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A University of Illinois-based team of engineers has found that the ...
Personalized medicine for atrial fibrillation
Cardiac electric activity can be used to predict individual progression of atrial fibrillationCredit: CNIC Patients with atrial fibrillation, the most ...
Southern white rhinos are threatened by incest and habitat fragmentation
Targeted measures can help to avert this dangerCredit: Robynne Prinsloo The fragmentation of natural habitats by fences and human settlements ...
New platform to help SMEs get started with cyber-physical systems
Small and medium-sized enterprises need better opportunities to exploit the benefits of computer-based models for cyber-physical systems; this is the ...
Physics through fiction — string theory and divine intervention
Credit: Springer Nature In his book, Mark Alpert reimagines Saint Joan of Arc as a teenage math whiz from New ...
University of Tartu researchers are developing translation programme with Mozilla Firefox
Credit: geralt (pixabay.com) Reading about the project from English media, you will learn that it involves a machine translation programme ...
It’s always a good hair day for Leptothrix cholodnii
Researchers led by a team at the University of Tsukuba find that hair-like structures on the surface of aquatic bacterium ...
Get ready for a new periodic table
Researchers at Hebrew University combine quantum dot 'atoms' and create new 'molecules'Credit: Meirav Oded and Somnath Koley. Are you ready ...
The rare genetic disorder identified in only 3 people worldwide
Condition causes severe neuro degeneration in infantsCredit: University of South Australia A team of South Australian researchers has cracked a ...
Fish consumption and mercury exposure in pregnant women in coastal Florida
Study evaluates fish consumption, sources, risk, knowledge and mercury concentrations in vulnerable populationCredit: Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Mercury contamination ...
