Zinc batteries offer greater safety, but many improvements needed to compete with lithium
Zinc batteries potentially offer a much lower fire risk than their market-leading yet fire-prone lithium-ion cousins, but researchers have concluded ...
Month: December 2022
Kibble-Zurek mechanism for nonequilibrium phase transitions
Phase transitions describe various phenomena around us, from water turning into ice to magnetic transitions to the superconducting transition where ...
Is that turtle legal? Fighting wildlife trafficking with stable isotopes
Wildlife trafficking is a well-known threat to biodiversity, with many species imperiled by poachers working in the illegal pet trade. ...
Scientists reveal encouraging findings in first-in-human clinical trial evaluating HIV vaccine approach
NEW YORK and LA JOLLA, CA—While scientists have struggled in the past to create an effective vaccine against HIV, a ...
nTIDE November 2022 Jobs Report: People with disabilities continue to outperform people without disabilities in labor market
East Hanover, NJ – December 2, 2022 – Job numbers rose again for people with disabilities, in contrast to people ...
Palm e-tattoo can tell when you’re stressed out
Our palms tell us a lot about our emotional state, tending to get wet when people are excited or nervous. ...
Continued excellence in DNA repair and genome stability research
German Research Foundation renews Collaborative Research Center 1361 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz The German Research Foundation (DFG) announced the ...
Understanding cellular functions: New Collaborative Research Center combines life sciences and polymer research
The researchers of the new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1551, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), intend to apply ...
New Collaborative Research Center at University Medical Center Mainz to create basis for tailored immunotherapies
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved the establishment and funding of the Collaborative Research Center/Transregio (CRC/TRR) 355 "Heterogeneity and ...
Reliable planning tool for the emissions path to achieving the Paris temperature goal
The central aim of the Paris climate agreement is clear: Limiting man-made global warming to well below 2°C. This limit ...
Broken symmetries provide opportunities for thermal emission management
Radiative heat transfer is a ubiquitous physical process in our universe. Any object with a temperature above absolute zero exchanges ...
Cheetah marking trees are hotspots for communication also for other species
Marking trees are important hotspots of communication for cheetahs: Here they exchange information with and about other cheetahs via scent ...
Washington D.C. data dashboard comes to BikePed Portal
In a big step forward for nonmotorized planning, a dashboard with bike data from the Washington, D.C. metro area is ...
Systems analysis of kidney metabolism reveals unexpected links to viral protection
Our kidney filters 180 liters of blood every day and retains nutrients through a process called ‘endocytosis’ and through active ...
Canadian physician Gordon Guyatt and the Psychological Science Accelerator honored as this year’s recipients of the €500,000 prize for enhancing quality in research
The Einstein Foundation Berlin is to honor Canadian physician Gordon Guyatt and the Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) with this year’s ...
Study reveals extent of residual lung damage after COVID-19 hospitalization
Dec. 2, 2022─ In a new study published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical ...
Synchronized neural oscillations in the right brain induce empathic behavior
A research team led by Dr. SHIN Hee-Sup at the Center for Cognition and Sociality (CCS) within the Institute for ...
Capturing Ecology – Winning images from the British Ecological Society photography competition announced
Credit: Roberto Garcia Roa and British Ecological Society
New analysis approach could help boost sensitivity of large telescopes
WASHINGTON — Some of the largest and most sophisticated telescopes ever made are under construction at the Simons Observatory in ...
Scientists receive $4.8m to pursue gene therapy for ‘incurable’ disease
Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) is an inherited, degenerative neuromuscular disorder that initially impairs motor function, such as gait and coordination, but ...
