Month: June 2020

Credit: ©Science China Press Hybrid sodium-ion capacitors (SICs) bridge the gap between supercapacitors (SCs) and batteries and have huge potential ...

Tracking Australia’s gigantic carnivorous dinosaurs

Credit: Dr Anthony Romilio North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus - ...

New nanoparticle drug combination for atherosclerosis

Credit: Professor Ji-Ho Park, KAIST Physicochemical cargo-switching nanoparticles (CSNP) designed by KAIST can help significantly reduce cholesterol and macrophage foam ...

Red squirrels making comeback as return of pine marten spells bad news for invasive grey squirrel

NUI Galway study finds Ireland's native species recovering and returning to natural habitatsCredit: Poshey Aherne The number of red squirrels ...

Nanofiber masks can be sterilized multiple times without filter performance deterioration

Bouillon fortified with a new iron compound could help reduce iron deficiency

Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Iron fortification of food is a cost-effective method of preventing iron deficiency. But finding ...

Researchers develop a compact 28 GHz transceiver supporting dual-polarized MIMO

Study contributes to driving advances in 5GCredit: 2020 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology ...

Cellular nanosponges could soak up SARS-CoV-2

Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02278 Scientists are working overtime to find an effective treatment for COVID-19, the ...

Half of the world’s population exposed to increasing air pollution, study shows

Credit: Professor Gavin Shaddick/University of Exeter Half of the world's population is exposed to increasing air pollution, new research has ...

Fish evolution in action: Land fish forced to adapt after leap out of water

Credit: Terry Ord, UNSW Sydney A diverse diet and flexible behaviour may have empowered blenny fish to make a dramatic ...

CMU method makes more data available for training self-driving cars

Additional data boosts accuracy of tracking other cars, pedestriansCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--For safety's sake, a self-driving car must accurately ...

Young people with early psychosis may not require antipsychotic medications to recover

Credit: Photo: Orygen Researchers at Orygen have found that some young people with early stage first episode psychosis (FEP) can ...

Crop residue decisions affect soil life

Credit: Rachel Schutte In some ways, farming is like cooking. Cooking would be much easier if we could leave the ...

New structural ‘map’ solves mysteries of gigantic gene regulator

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Structural biology has been used to 'map' part of a protein called SMCHD1, ...

How fish got onto land, and stayed there

Credit: Terry Ord Research on blennies, a family of fish that have repeatedly left the sea for land, suggests that ...

The Lancet Infectious Diseases: UK modelling study finds case isolation and contact tracing vital to COVID-19 epidemic control

Combining self-isolation and contact tracing with moderate physical distancing measures, such as limiting social gatherings and remote working, could enable ...

Study evaluates stress level of rehabilitated sea turtles during transport

Credit: Connie Merigo/New England Aquarium BOSTON, MASS. (June 16, 2020) - A new study co-authored by six scientists with the ...

Thinking small: New ideas in the search for dark matter

Physicists propose a new table-top experiment for detecting dark matterCredit: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) ...

A $26.9-million project to create better psychiatric medications without side effects

Credit: UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC - June 16, 2020 - Rapidly acting drugs to treat depression, anxiety, ...

Off-the-shelf tool for making mouse models of COVID-19