New composite material revs up pursuit of advanced electric vehicles
Credit: Andrew Sproles, ORNL/U.S. Department of Energy Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory used new techniques to create a composite ...
Month: September 2020
Climate: risks and future strategies in Italy
Credit: Fondazione CMCC It could be worth up to 8% of GDP per capita, exacerbate the differences between north and ...
Dino teeth research prove giant predatory dinosaur lived in water
Portsmouth Palaeontologists establish Spinosaurus was a real life 'river monster'Credit: Davide Bonadonna A discovery of more than a thousand dinosaur ...
Genomic adaptations to a rice-based diet mitigate the risk of obesity and diabetes
Credit: Evolutionary Applications The traditional rice-based diet of some east-Asian population has brought to a number of genomic adaptations that ...
Highly efficient perovskite solar cells with enhanced stability and minimised lead leakage
Credit: City University of Hong Kong While the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) - a future of ...
Why is the West Coast sky orange? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2020 -- California wildfires are, unfortunately, nothing new -- but that bright ...
Engineers imitate human hands to make better sensors
Credit: Cheng Laboratory/Ye Qiu An international research team has developed "electronic skin" sensors capable of mimicking the dynamic process of ...
Computational study of famous fossil reveals evolution of locomotion in ‘ruling reptiles’
New modelling of ancient fossil movement reveals important step in the evolution of posture in the ancestors of dinosaurs and ...
NASA sees Wilfred degenerate into a trough
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Former Tropical Storm Wilfred weakened in the Central ...
Older people have become younger
Physical and cognitive function have improved meaningfully in 30 yearsCredit: Mostphotos, Doug Olson The functional ability of older people is ...
Technique permits convenient, precise optical imaging of individual proteins
Credit: Graphic by Shireen Dooling Often considered the workhorses of the body, proteins are among the most important biomolecules critical ...
NASA satellite found Post-Tropical Storm Alpha fizzle over Portugal and Spain
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Former Subtropical Storm Alpha was a short-lived storm ...
Awareness of COVID-19 in severe dementia patients
Awareness of the COVID-19 outbreak and resultant depressive tendencies in patients with severe Alzheimer diseaseCredit: Department of Geriatric Medicine, Tokyo ...
New insights into how the drug pomalidomide fights cancer
Credit: Tokyo Tech Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the white blood cells, and patients diagnosed with this disease commonly ...
Bio-based inhibition of gas hydrate formation
Innovative research by Kazan Federal University was publicized in early access in EnergyCredit: Kazan Federal University Copper stearate was used ...
HHRI awarded continuation of SRTR contract
The Chronic Disease Research Group (CDRG) of the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI) has renewed its federal contract to operate ...
New discovery to have huge impact on development of future battery cathodes
Credit: Diamond Light Source & University of Oxford A new paper published today in Nature Energy reveals how a collaborative ...
Argonne National Laboratory and AT&T extend climate resiliency project nationwide
Credit: (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) Argonne and AT&T expand transformative partnership analyzing climate risks. For over a year, the U.S. ...
VCU study shows the experimental drug AR-12 could be a promising COVID-19 treatment
Credit: VCU Massey Cancer Center A team of scientists led by Paul Dent, Ph.D., at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer ...
Cosmic X-rays reveal an indubitable signature of black holes
Credit: Srimanta Banerjee, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Marat Gilfanov An international team of astrophysicists has found distinctive signatures of black hole event ...
