Catnip’s chemical attractant is new twist on old family tradition
Credit: Alex Abair GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Catnip is most famous for its ability to launch felines into a euphoric frenzy, ...
Month: May 2020
Satellites eye typhoon Vongfong landfall in the Philippines
Credit: Credit: NOAA/William Straka III, Univ. of Wisconsin Madison NASA and NOAA satellites have been providing forecasters with satellite data ...
New study to assess the efficacy of ivermectin against COVID-19
Clínica Universidad de Navarra and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health launch a clinical trial to determine the efficacy of ...
BladeSense research advances rotor blade health monitoring
UK Government-funded helicopter project yields promising resultsCredit: Airbus Helicopters in the UK Airbus Helicopters in the UK is exploring future ...
Coping after breast cancer
UD researchers study how fear of cancer recurrence impacts a couple's quality of lifeCredit: Illustration by Jeffrey Chase To recur ...
KIT procures new supercomputer
'Horeka' hybrid system expected to be among ten most powerful computers in Europe in 2021Credit: Graphics: SCC/KIT From the energy ...
Digital health in the COVID-19 pandemic
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 13, 2020--Artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and other key digital ...
The carnivorous plant lifestyle is gene costly
Credit: (Picture: Dirk Becker and Sönke Scherzer / University of Würzburg) Plants can produce energy-rich biomass with the help of ...
Making quantum ‘waves’ in ultrathin materials
Study co-led by Berkeley Lab reveals how wavelike plasmons could power up a new class of sensing and photochemical technologies ...
Critical window for re-infection with HIV after stem cell transplantation
Credit: NIAID Some people with HIV need to undergo an allogeneic stem cell transplantation in order to treat different types ...
Beads made of boa bones identified in lesser Antilles
The first identifications of Boa on Martinique, Basse-Terre and La Désirade islands point to the snake's significance for pre-Columbian AmerindiansCredit: ...
Unlocking the gate to the millisecond CT
Credit: Tohoku University Many will undergo a CT scan at some point in their lifetime - being slid in and ...
Patients prefer their consent to share their data and to manage it digitally
Credit: Dovetail/WMG, University of Warwick A group of patients with diabetes were surveyed on their understanding of the consent process ...
The exposome: When our environment drives health and disease
Take two: Science publishes two papers on effects of unknown chemicalsCredit: University of Luxembourg Science, has published in its January ...
New functions of a protein may improve biocontrol methods in sustainable agriculture
The study has been conducted at 'BacBio', a laboratory of the University of Malaga (UMA) that specializes in the research ...
The revolt of the plants: The arctic melts when plants stop breathing
Credit: Jong-Seong Kug (POSTECH) The vapor that plants emit when they breathe serves to lower the land surface temperature, much ...
TRAPPIST-1 planetary orbits not misaligned
First scientific result by the new spectrograph on the Subaru telescopeCredit: NAOJ Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that ...
Cahokia’s rise parallels onset of corn agriculture
Credit: Graphic by Diana Yates CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest ...
General descriptor sparks advancements in dye chemistry
SUTD collaborates with international researchers to move away from inefficient trial-and-error developments in dye chemistry and quantitatively design luminescent materialsCredit: ...
Reptile poaching in Balochistan (Pakistan) is on a decreasing trend but still troublesome
Credit: Rafaqat Masroor Since 2013, following strict enforcement of provincial wildlife legislation in the less studied regions of Asia, the ...
