Adaptation: Competition and predation may not be the driving force scientists thought
Study of local adaptation provides important insights into evolutionary forcesCredit: Photo credit: Anna Hargreaves Species adapt to their local climates, ...
Month: February 2020
Observation of non-trivial superconductivity on surface of type II Weyl semimetal TaIrTe4
Credit: ©Science China Press Topological superconductor, with bulk superconducting gap and Majorana fermion states on the surface or edge, is ...
Lights, camera, action… the super-fast world of droplet dynamics
Credit: University of Leeds Cameras shooting up to 25,000 frames a second have been used to capture the moment two ...
Tel Aviv University researchers discover unique non-oxygen breathing animal
The tiny relative of the jellyfish is parasitic and dwells in salmon tissueCredit: American Friends of Tel Aviv University Researchers ...
Powerful mantis shrimp pull punches in air for self-preservation
Credit: Kate Feller Mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) don't take kindly to captivity. 'They have a general baseline of being angry', ...
Myanmar to be 1st country in ASEAN Region to launch free and open national research portal
Credit: © National Institute of Informatics 21 February 2020, Yangon - Access to research in Myanmar will increase thanks to ...
Sustainable light sources: LEDs from bacterial production
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz The basis for this vision is being laid at the Institute of Biochemistry at ...
CaPtAs: A new noncentrosymmetric superconductor
Credit: ©Science China Press A research group from Zhejiang University in China has found that the noncentrosymmetric compound CaPtAs is ...
KIER realizes advancing into next-generation building fuel cell market
Commercialization of 5kW high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell system by establishing lab companyCredit: Korea Institute of Energy Research ...
Discovery of bacterial ancestor yields new insight on calcium channels
A new ion channel identified in bacteria fills a missing link in the evolutionary history of ion channels in mammalsCredit: ...
Simple self-charging battery offers power solutions for devices
Researchers use a ferroelectric glass electrolyte within an electrochemical cell to create batteriesCredit: Braga et al. WASHINGTON, February 25, 2020 ...
What makes an Airbnb host look trustworthy?
Hebrew University researchers crack the codeCredit: Hebrew University They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Nowhere is this ...
Lab-free infection test could eliminate guesswork for doctors
Credit: University of Southampton A new infection test, made up of sheets of paper patterned by lasers, has been developed ...
New metabolic engineering strategy for effective sugar utilization by microbes improves bioproduction of polymer raw materials
Credit: Kobe University A research group, consisting of doctoral student FUJIWARA Ryosuke, Associate Professor TANAKA Tsutomu (both of Kobe University's ...
The discovery of ancient Salmonella
Oldest reconstructed bacterial genomes link agriculture and herding with emergence of new diseaseCredit: Annette Günzel Using Salmonella enterica genomes recovered ...
Breaking the temperature barrier in small-scale materials testing
Credit: Photo by Steph Adams CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers have demonstrated a new method for testing microscopic aeronautical materials at ...
New pieces added to the molecular puzzle of rheumatoid arthritis
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have revealed new details about how joint ...
Successful transcatheter mitral valve repair that enhances postoperative recovery
Credit: Osaka University A group of researchers led by Professor Yoshiki SAWA of the Cardiovascular Group in the Graduate School ...
Medicine and flyfishing
Gilbert Thompson's Medicine My Vocation, Fishing My RecreationCredit: World Scientific What do medicine and flyfishing have in common? Gilbert Thompson's ...
Cook County’s short-lived ‘soda’ tax worked, says new study
Sweetened beverage sales decreased by 21% during tax implementationCredit: UIC A study of beverage sales in Cook County, Illinois, shows ...
