Study indicates São Tomé island has two species of caecilians found nowhere else on Earth
Research adds evidence to century-long scientific debate and reveals how volcanic activity may have driven divergence of the limbless amphibiansCredit: ...
Month: May 2021
Rapid lifestyle changes during early COVID-19 pandemic had no impact on climate change
Household carbon footprints did not significantly change during the first state of emergency in JapanCredit: Image by Yin Long, first ...
Researchers in Sweden develop light emitters for quantum circuits
Credit: Ali Elshaair The promise of a quantum internet depends on the complexities of harnessing light to transmit quantum information ...
Treating cerebral aneurysms with a new filling method
Credit: POSTECH Cerebral aneurysms are malformations caused by abnormalities on the walls of blood vessels in the brain. When these ...
Blocking lipoxygenase leads to impaired cardiac repair in acute heart failure
University of South Florida Health preclinical study finds that inhibiting lipoxygenase with a drug alters innate inflammatory response, delaying heart ...
THz emission spectroscopy reveals optical response of GaInN/GaN multiple quantum wells
Towards nano-seismology of wide bandgap quantum devicesCredit: Osaka University A team of researchers at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka ...
Firefighting chemical found in sea lion and fur seal pups
PFAS detected in endangered sea lion in SA and in Australian fur seals in VICCredit: Louise Cooper, University of Sydney. ...
Materials research says yes to wood
Credit: © TU Graz / BPTI As a renewable resource, wood offers great potential in the fight against the climate ...
Flower size correlates with pollinator size, evolved independently among mountains
Credit: Tsubasa Toji, Shinshu University The morphological compatibility between flowers and insects was given in the famous textbook example of ...
Researchers achieve 50dB noiseless at all optical isolation
Credit: HU Xinxin et al. Chinese researchers achieved 51.5dB nonreciprocal isolation in the atomic ensemble, which is the highest isolation ...
Engineering diseased human skin in vitro
Credit: POSTECH The skin, which covers the surface of the human body, is its largest organ. It is the first ...
Reaching your life goals as a single-celled organism
How do simple creatures manage to move to a specific place? Artificial intelligence and a physical model from TU Wien ...
Successful completion of 10,000 Ulsan Genomes Project
Credit: UNIST On April 26, UNIST and Ulsan City officially announced that their ambitious 10,000 Genome Project has finally reached ...
UNIST recognized for design excellence at iF Design Award 2021
Credit: UNIST The Department of Design at UNIST has once again been recognized for design excellence, worldwide. They announced that ...
Feds back probe of understudied gut nervous system
Uribe wins NIH grant to study enteric nervous system developmentCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 10, 2021) ...
Male infertility scoring using AI-assisted image classification requiring no programming
Clinicians at Toho University in Japan developed an AI-based scoring model for testis images to assess patients with severe male ...
Research results challenge a decades-old mechanism of how we hear sounds
Credit: Sanna Hedin Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have made several discoveries on the functioning mechanisms of the inner hair ...
Serotonin transporters increase when depression fades, study shows
Credit: Lou Almskog Low levels of serotonin in the brain are seen as a possible cause of depression and many ...
Parallel universes cross in Flatland
Physicists at the University of Bath in the UK observe modified energy landscapes at the intersection of 2D materials.Credit: Ventsislav ...
Could wider use of gene reserves protect rare species?
Credit: Melissa Minter, University of York UK landowners and conservationists welcome wider-spread use of Gene Conservation Units (GCUs) to help ...
