Archaeopteryx fossil provides insights into the origins of flight
Research reveals earliest flight-related moulting strategy in 150-million-year ancient bird Credit: Kaye et al. 2020 Flying birds moult their feathers ...
Month: December 2020
New blended solar cells yield high power conversion efficiencies
Credit: Itaru Osaka, Hiroshima University Researchers at Hiroshima University in Japan have blended together various polymer and molecular semiconductors as ...
NTU, Surbana Jurong and ENGIE to partner for sustainable liquid air energy storage researc
Credit: NTU Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), Surbana Jurong (SJ), and ENGIE will be collaborating to develop an ...
Shining a light on what’s really happening in perovskite solar cells
University of Tsukuba researchers take a molecular-level look at what happens in perovskite solar cells when they are operating, to ...
How does eye position affect ‘cocktail party’ listening?
Eye position has a modest but measurable impact on speech intelligibility within a cocktail party setting.Credit: Virginia Best MELVILLE, N.Y., ...
Physicians don’t always recognize patients’ radiation therapy side effects
A new study finds that significant symptoms in young and Black patients are more likely to be under-recognized Credit: University ...
A colossal step for electronics
Scientists at Osaka University develop a new method for controlling the hydrogen content and conductivity of thin-film perovskite rare-earth nickelate ...
NUS engineers discover new microbe for simpler, cheaper and greener wastewater treatment
The new strain of bacterium can remove both nitrogen and phosphorous from sewageCredit: National University of Singapore Researchers from the ...
PhD thesis introduces new possibilities of electronic warfare to Estonian Defence Forces
Credit: TalTech Modern warfare is day by day shifting away from man-to-man combat towards electronic warfare. The end result of ...
Let the sunshine in: self-cleaning membrane under visible light treatment
Complete removal of microbial contaminant layer accumulated on the membrane surface by sunlight irradiation. Providing a foundation for the development ...
Tomatoes offer affordable source of Parkinson’s disease drug
Credit: Phil Robinson Scientists have produced a tomato enriched in the Parkinson's disease drug L-DOPA in what could become a ...
Using light, red blood cells and a honey bee peptide to deliver therapeutic proteins
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.0c01151 Protein therapies are often more potent and selective toward their biochemical ...
Protein may protect healthy cells during cancer treatment
Credit: Kim Ratliff, Production Coordinator, Augusta University A key way radiation therapy and chemotherapy work is by making highly lethal ...
Microbes and plants: A dynamic duo
Credit: Devin Coleman-Derr Drought stress has been a major roadblock in crop success, and this obstacle will not disappear anytime ...
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