Month: January 2021

Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. ¬- Illinois residents value efforts to reduce watershed pollution, and they ...

Studying and treating COVID-19’s long-term impact

Rush leads new CDC-funded study, launches post-COVID clinicCredit: INSPIRE for COVID-19 COVID-19 has wreaked havoc around the globe, causing nearly ...

Giant 2D atlas of the universe helps dark energy spectroscopic survey

Credit: DESI website The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) team of National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and ...

A highly sensitive technique for measuring the state of a cytoskeleton

Credit: Associate Professor Takumi Higaki A research group from Kumamoto University, Japan has developed a highly sensitive technique to quantitatively ...

A scanning transmission X-ray microscope for analysis of chemical states of lithium

Credit: NINS/IMS Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are widely used for daily products in our life, such as hybrid cars, cell phone, ...

New algorithm mimics electrosensing in fish

Credit: Figure courtesy of Lorenzo Baldassari and Andrea Scapin. While humans may struggle to navigate a murky, turbid underwater environment, ...

Giving the hydrogen economy an acid test

Credit: University of Tsukuba Scientists at the University of Tsukuba show that using a layer of graphene just one atom ...

Bees respond to wildfire aftermath by producing more female offspring

Credit: Jim Rivers, OSU College of Forestry CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University have found that the blue ...

Scientists discover the secret of Galápagos’ rich ecosystem

Credit: Alexander Forryan New research has unlocked the mystery of how the Galápagos Islands, a rocky, volcanic outcrop, with only ...

Low cost chlorine dispensing device improves tap water safety in low-resource regions

Engineers invent device that requires no electricity or moving parts, lets users collect water as they usually doCredit: Amy Pickering ...

A climate in crisis calls for investment in direct air capture, news research finds

Wartime-level funding for a fleet of CO2 scrubbers could slow warming, but stopping climate change still requires deep cuts in ...

Honeybees reveal how our floral landscape has changed over the last 65 years

Honeybees have been helping researchers from the National Botanic Garden of Wales track how the UK's fields, hedgerows, wild spaces ...

Climate change is hurting children’s diets, global study finds

Rising temperatures contribute to child malnutrition and reduced diet qualityCredit: C. Shubert (CCAFS) A first-of-its-kind, international study of 107,000 children ...

Water and gender equality

Stanford researchers find installing piped water near homes promotes gender equality and improves well-being in rural ZambiaCredit: James Winter Water ...

Chemotherapy with light; only one injection required

Chemotherapy with only one injection, repeated phototherapy, and no side effects. Development of a cancer-targeted single component supramolecular peptide phototherapeutic ...

How the brain paralyzes you while you sleep

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have discovered a group of neurons in the mouse brainstem that suppress ...

Building a giant 2D map of the universe to prepare for the largest 3D map

Nearly 200 researchers pitched in to gather, process, and stitch together images for half of the sky to prepare for ...

Shining a new light on dark energy

Dark Energy Survey releases catalog of 700 million objectsElliptical galaxies are generally characterized by their relatively smooth appearance when compared ...

Pulsed ultraviolet light technology to improve egg safety, help poultry industry

Novel decontamination method can be used with both table and hatching eggsCredit: Penn State Pulsed ultraviolet light can be an ...

Elevated equipment: DoD awards $50 million for defense-related scientific research