Local community involvement crucial to restoring tropical peatlands
Local community involvement is vital in efforts to raise water levels to help restore Indonesia's tropical peatlands, a new study ...
Month: March 2020
Artificial intelligence identifies optimal material formula
Material researchCredit: © Lars Banko Porous or dense, columns or fibres During the manufacture of thin films, numerous control variables ...
Discovering the diet of the fossil Theropithecus oswaldi found in Cueva Victoria in Spain
The long journey of the African baboonCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA A study published in Journal of Human Evolution reveals for ...
Quantum phenomenon governs organic solar cells
Vibronic coherence contributes to photocurrent generation in organic semiconductor heterojunction diodesCredit: Thor Balkhed Researchers at Linköping University have discovered a ...
International team discover new species of flying reptiles
Credit: Nizar Ibrahim, University of Detroit Mercy A community of flying reptiles that inhabited the Sahara 100 million years ago ...
New feathered dinosaur was one of the last surviving raptors
Credit: Sergey Krasovskiy A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the ...
Deleting a gene prevents Type 1 diabetes in mice by disguising insulin-producing cells
Credit: Courtesy of Hugo Lee MADISON, Wis. -- Removing a gene from the cells that produce insulin prevents mice from ...
The genetic quest to understand COVID-19
Unlocking the genetic code of the novel coronavirus will help us prevent other diseasesCredit: University of Sydney How the novel ...
Samara Polytech scientist designs wind-powered generator
The unique device has no analogues in the worldCredit: @SamaraPolytech Professor of the Department of Theoretical and Basic Electrical Engineering ...
Artificial intelligence for very young brains
Credit: CHU Sainte-Justine Canadian scientists have developed an innovative new technique that uses artificial intelligence to better define the different ...
Jumping genes help make neurons in a dish
Credit: © 2020 Della Valle et al. The process of making functional brain cells in a lab dish requires the ...
Intense form of radiation slows disease progression in some men with prostate cancer
Highly focused radiation can cause systemic immune response for men with limited spread of prostate cancerCredit: Phuoc Tran, M.D., Ph.D. ...
Under extreme heat and drought, trees hardly benefit from an increased CO2 level
Studies of Aleppo Pines reveal: The increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere does not compensate the negative ...
Astronomers use slime mould to map the universe’s largest structures
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Burchett and O. Elek (UC Santa Cruz) The single-cell organism known as slime mould (Physarum ...
Making sense of cells
Credit: OIST Our body's ability to detect disease, foreign material, and the location of food sources and toxins is all ...
Census 2020: Understanding the Issues
Springer book covers the US Census from its Constitutional founding through the upcoming 2020 count, discusses the unique significance of ...
Flavor research for consumer protection
Flavorings containing benzaldehyde can develop benzene under the influence of lightCredit: Gisela Olias / Leibniz-LSB In 2013, the German Stiftung ...
COVID-19 preventative vaccine trial for healthcare workers
Credit: MCRI Professor Kathryn North AC, Director of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, has announced its infectious ...
Why life can get better as we age — study
Mindfulness helps wellbeing at all agesCredit: Flinders University People say life gets better with age. Now research suggests this may ...
Holographic cosmological model and thermodynamics on the horizon of the universe
A Kanazawa University researcher proposes a novel cosmological model to study thermodynamics on the horizon of the universeCredit: Kanazawa University ...
