The one ring — to track your finger’s location
Credit: Dennis Wise/University of Washington Smart technology keeps getting smaller. There are smartphones, smartwatches and now, smart rings, devices that ...
Month: February 2020
Fireflies face global threats
Credit: Jason Steel - www.jason-steel.co.uk Worldwide declines in insect populations have sparked considerable concern among researchers and members of the ...
How’s the weather up there? WVU engineer aims to enhance space weather forecasting
Credit: NASA Usually, the Earth's magnetic field shields us from the misadventures of our nearest star, the mighty sun. But ...
One single primitive turtle resisted mass extinction in the northern hemisphere
Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) Sixty-six million years ago, in the emerged lands of Laurasia -now the northern hemisphere- a ...
Hospital websites lack usability for non-English speakers
Credit: WSU SPOKANE, Wash. -- English proficiency shouldn't be a barrier to health care. That's why the federal government requires ...
Life in dead wood
Credit: (Photo: Elisa Stengel) Waldsterben 2.0 - this term has made the rounds in Germany. It refers to the death ...
Natural herb kratom may have therapeutic effects and relatively low potential for abuse or harm, according to a user survey
Researchers say findings underscore need for research and regulation, but not an outright ban on salesCredit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Using ...
How and when spines changed in mammalian evolution
Harvard-led study examines functional diversity in mammalian backbonesCredit: Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology. A new study from Harvard University ...
New study links autism to specific cell, paves way for potential approach to treatment
Postmortem brain tissue from autism patients reveals impairment of 'myelination' process that ensures neurons can communicate; efforts now turn to ...
A material benefit to society, Sandia scientist elected AAAS fellow
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories A perennial inventor of advanced materials has been elected fellow of the American Association for the ...
The sleeping Sigma-Factor
A previously unknown mechanism enables bacterial antibiotic resistanceCredit: Max Planck Institute for terrestrial Microbiology/Iyer Researchers from the Max Planck Institute ...
How nature tells us its formulas
Developing a quantum description for a many-body system is extremely hard; TU Wien (Vienna) and Heidelberg University found a way ...
French mathematician and spider aficionado Cédric Villani honoured with a new orb-weaver
With their astonishingly precise spiral webs, orb-weaving spiders are the arachnid analogy of first-class mathematicians, note the researchers behind the ...
Designing an emergency stop switch for immunotherapies
Credit: © Alain Herzog 2020 EPFL Immunotherapy, unlike chemotherapy and radiotherapy, arms the body's immune system to attack cancer cells. ...
Scientists discover new non-sticky gels
Credit: University of Bristol Scientists from the University of Bristol and Université Paris-Saclay have discovered a new class of material ...
Ancient Greek tholos-like architecture composed of archaeal proteins
A unique archaeal protein complex having a spacious center surrounded by five columnsCredit: © Biomolecular Organization Research Group Proteins often ...
Showing how the tiniest particles in our universe saved us from complete annihilation
Credit: Original credit: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL, NASA, and ESA Credit: Kavli IPMU - Kavli IPMU modified this figure based on the ...
Seeing the invisible — A novel gas imaging system
Credit: Department of Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation,TMDU Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University develop a novel gas imaging system ...
Hepatitis B: New therapeutic approach may help to cure chronic hepatitis B infection
Credit: Helmholtz Zentrum München Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the German Center for Infection ...
Blue sky inking: How nanomaterials could lower retail waste and speed up the stock take
Credit: University of Sussex As part of the new £8 million ESRC investment in Digital Futures at Work Research Centre, ...
