Material from Russia will triple the capacity of lithium-ion batteries
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS The scientists of the National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (NUST MISIS) being a part ...
Month: March 2021
Sharing shears: Conserved protein segment activates molecular DNA scissors for DNA repair
Credit: PNAS Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have uncovered mechanisms underlying the activation of the MRN complex-- ...
Study of mosquito protein could lead to treatments against life-threatening viruses
Credit: Geoffrey Mueller, Ph.D. The mosquito protein AEG12 strongly inhibits the family of viruses that cause yellow fever, dengue, West ...
Manure improves soil and microbe community
Credit: Lindsey Slaughter In the dry air and soil of Texas' Southern High Plains, improving soil health can be tough. ...
Fossils from “Vegetational Pompeii” Resolve Deep Palaeontology Mystery
Credit: NIGPAS A recent study on spectacular fossil plants preserved in a volcanic ash fall deposit--known as China's "vegetational Pompeii," ...
SUTD wins best paper at 35th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021
The researchers have developed a novel connection which can help in the design of more efficient multi-agent AI systems.Credit: SUTD ...
Air pollutant reductions could enhance global warming without greenhouse gas cuts
Modeling predicts that loss of cooling effect attributed to sulfate aerosols will increase surface air temperature if air pollution and ...
UVA Health’s Dr. Cynthia Yoshida honored for increasing colorectal cancer screenings
Credit: UVA Health UVA Health's Cynthia M. Yoshida, MD, is one of six winners of a national award recognizing healthcare ...
Bacteria and viruses: a network of intestinal relationships
Credit: Martial Marbouty / Romain Koszul The balance of human intestinal microbiota, consisting of hundreds of bacterial species and phages ...
NYITCOM researcher wins prestigious NSF CAREER grant
Research project aims to improve understanding of cranial birth defectsCredit: Akinobu Watanabe Old Westbury, NY--Akinobu "Aki" Watanabe, Ph.D., assistant professor ...
How a ladybug warps space-time
Vienna quantum physicists measure the smallest gravitational force yetCredit: © Tobias Westphal / Arkitek Scientific Gravity is the weakest of ...
Red Snapper in the Gulf show signs of stress
Credit: University of South Florida Nearly 100 percent of the red snapper sampled in the Gulf of Mexico over a ...
The important role of music in neurorehabilitation: Filling in critical gaps
Experts highlight current gaps in clinical applications of music therapy in this theme issue of NeuroRehabilitationCredit: Faculty of Music and ...
Demystifying the ‘Parkinson Protein’
Research team led by the physical chemist Professor Malte Drescher from Konstanz succeeds in directly observing the membrane binding of ...
Face masks are a ticking plastic bomb
Credit: Elvis Genbo Xu/SDU Recent studies estimate that we use an astounding 129 billion face masks globally every month - ...
Nano-mapping phase transitions in electronic materials
Credit: Duncan T.L. Alexander "Phase transitions" are a central phenomenon in physical sciences. Despite being technical-sounding, they are actually something ...
Unfavorable weather conditions were the main cause of the fog-haze events over the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region during the COVID-19 lockdown
Credit: GAO Yi At the end of December 2019, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) quickly spread throughout Hubei Province and other ...
Using artificial intelligence to generate 3D holograms in real-time
A new method called tensor holography could enable the creation of holograms for virtual reality, 3D printing, medical imaging, and ...
Bioaccumulation of phased-out fire retardants is slowly declining in bald eagles
Credit: Jim Campbell-Spickler Research published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry shows that the presence of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in ...
I ain’t afraid of no ghosts: people with mind-blindness not so easily spooked
The link between mental imagery and emotions may be closer than we thoughtCredit: Unsplash People with aphantasia - that is, ...
