New catalyst recycles greenhouse gases into fuel and hydrogen gas
Credit: Cafer T. Yavuz, KAIST Scientists have taken a major step toward a circular carbon economy by developing a long-lasting, ...
Month: February 2020
New high-throughput method to study gene splicing at an unprecedented scale
A new technique to follow the splicing of thousands of genes shows that it may occur far more often than ...
Highly sensitive sensors show promise in enhancing human touch
Ultrathin crack-based sensors operate on a principle similar to a spider's sense organ and display remarkable sensitivity to movementCredit: Rongrong ...
Scientists unlock low-cost material from solar cells to manipulate light for industry
Perovskites have been discovered to be a cheap alternative for Faraday rotatorsCredit: Stefanie Zingsheim/University of Sydney Researchers in Australia have ...
LTE vulnerability: Attackers can impersonate other mobile phone users
They can thus start a subscription at the expense of others or publish secret company documents under someone else's identityCredit: ...
Neuroscience opens the black box of artificial intelligence
Computer scientists use brain research methods for a better understanding of AICredit: Jana Dünnhaupt/University of Magdeburg Computer scientists at Otto ...
New artificial neural network model bests MaxEnt in inverse problem example
New artificial neural network model may serve as a basis for solving inverse problemsCredit: @EPFL Numerical simulations, generally based on ...
What induces sleep? For fruit flies it’s stress at the cellular level
Researchers reveal that fruit fly sleep is induced by cellular oxidative stress, which may explain why chronic lack of sleep ...
Ultrasound device improves charge time and run time in lithium batteries
The device brings lithium metal batteries one step closer to commercial viabilityCredit: David Baillot/University of California San Diego Researchers at ...
A new way to monitor cancer radiation therapy doses
A new gel-based nanosensor for radiation dose monitoring can be used on skin and is relatively inexpensiveCredit: Image credit Subhadeep ...
University of Guam, Northern Mariana Islands collaborate on watershed management
Credit: Photo courtesy of University of Guam The University of Guam and natural resource officials in Saipan and Rota exchanged ...
The dinosaur in the cupboard under the stairs
Credit: Dr Anthony Romilio The mystery surrounding dinosaur footprints on a cave ceiling in Central Queensland has been solved after ...
Environmental solutions to go global
Polymers clean up mercury and oil spills, nitrogen runoff, and moreCredit: Flinders University / SA Government New Australian technology that ...
The functional diversity in a noxious heat and chemical sensor among mosquito species
Researchers in the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Japan discovered functional differences in TRPA1 which serves as a receptor ...
How countries respond to weather change
Credit: Source: IPCC AR5, 2014 A two degree Centigrade increase in global average temperature will lead to catastrophic consequences for ...
Scientists discover that human cell function removes extracellular amyloid protein
Credit: Eisuke Itakura The accumulation of aberrant proteins in the body will cause various neurodegenerative diseases. Amyloid β, one of ...
Researchers discover how cells clear misfolded proteins from tissues
Credit: Itakura et al., 2020 Researchers in Japan have identified a new quality control system that allows cells to remove ...
Despite a marked reduction in the prevalence of dementia, the number of people with dementia is set to double by 2050 according to new Alzheimer Europe report
Credit: Alzheimer Europe Brussels, 18 February 2020 - Today, at a European Parliament lunch debate hosted by Christophe Hansen MEP ...
Discovery at ‘flower burial’ site could unravel mystery of Neanderthal death rites
Credit: Graeme Barker    The first articulated Neanderthal skeleton to come out of the ground for over 20 ...
IVF-conceived children have somewhat higher mortality risk in their first weeks of life
Credit: Anders Norderman Children conceived with assisted reproductive techniques including in vitro fertilization (IVF) have a somewhat higher mortality risk ...
