Discovering candidate for reflex network of walking cats: Understanding animals with robots
Credit: Osaka University A group of researchers from Osaka University developed a quadruped robot platform that can reproduce the neuromuscular ...
Month: May 2021
Popcorn! Packaging for the future?
Forest scientists at Göttingen University develop plant-based, environmentally friendly materialCredit: Carolin Pertsch Modern packaging must do much more than simply ...
Study shows significant benefit of PolarCap® in recovery from sports-related concussions
Results published in the journal Concussion indicate that use of cooling technology hastened safe return to play for players of ...
Protecting local water has global benefits
New paper published May 11, 2021 in Nature CommunicationsCredit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory. 2019. ...
Researchers develop magnetic thin film for spin-thermoelectric energy conversion
Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has recently introduced a new class of magnetic materials for spin ...
In ‘minibrains,’ hindering key enzyme by different amounts has opposite growth effects
Credit: Sur Lab/MIT Picower Institute Like many around the world, the lab of Professor Mriganka Sur in The Picower Institute ...
Sex cells in parasites are doing their own thing
Credit: Dr Lori Peacock Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered how microbes responsible for human African sleeping sickness ...
Inhibition of proteins activated by nitric oxide reverses aortic aneurysm in Marfan syndrome
The researchers have demonstrated that silencing or inhibiting the activity of these proteins completely reverses the aortic disease in a ...
New genetic copycatchers detect efficient and precise CRISPR editing in a living organism
Proof-of-principle research shows that genes can be accurately edited in cells throughout the bodyCredit: Zhiqian Li Researchers at the University ...
Stabilizer residue in inks found to inhibit conductivity in 3D printed electronic
Credit: Gustavo Trindade Inks containing metal nanoparticles are among the most commonly-used conductive materials for printed electronics. Ink-jetting layers of ...
Boosting body heat production: A new approach for treating obesity
Credit: Garvan Institute A receptor that helps conserve energy when food is scarce may be the key to a safer ...
1.5°C degrowth scenarios suggest need for new mitigation pathways: Research
Wellbeing can be maintained in a degrowth transitionCredit: Lorenz Keyßer The first comprehensive comparison of 'degrowth' scenarios with established pathways ...
Low temperature physics gives insight into turbulence
Credit: Lancaster University A novel technique for studying vortices in quantum fluids has been developed by Lancaster physicists. Andrew Guthrie, ...
Hidden within African diamonds, a billion-plus years of deep-earth history
Scientists find a new way to tell ages of the stones, and what made themCredit: Yaakov Weiss Diamonds are sometimes ...
A beetle’s Achilles heel
Glyphosate inhibits symbiotic bacteria in the saw-toothed grain beetleCredit: Julian Kiefer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Saw-toothed grain beetles live in a ...
Horseradish flea beetle: Protected with the weapons of its food plant
Researchers elucidate how the insect regulates the accumulation of plant toxins via special transportersCredit: Anna Schroll When horseradish flea beetles ...
Cell reprogramming could aid spinal cord injury recovery
Credit: Chris Thelen, Freelance Photographer Cells called astrocytes normally support our neurons, and now scientists are working to reprogram the ...
New material to treat wounds can protect against resistant bacteria
First successful implementation of new antibacterial technologyCredit: Anna-Lena Lundqvist/Chalmers Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new ...
Mediterranean turtles recovering at different rates
Credit: Olkan Erguler Numbers of two Mediterranean turtle species have risen in the last three decades - but in Cyprus ...
The formation of the Amazon Basin influenced the distribution of manatees
Whole mitochondrial DNA sequencing of the three extant species of the aquatic mammal shows that they first split from their ...
