Propeller advance paves way for quiet, efficient electric aviation
Electrification is seen as having an important role to play in the fossil-free aviation of tomorrow. But electric aviation is ...
Month: March 2023
Robots can help improve mental wellbeing at work – as long as they look right
Robots can be useful as mental wellbeing coaches in the workplace – but perception of their effectiveness depends in large ...
STAR physicists track sequential ‘melting’ of upsilons
UPTON, NY—Scientists using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study some of the hottest matter ever created in a laboratory have ...
Researchers discover way to reverse infertility by reducing HDL cholesterol
Houston Methodist scientists reversed infertility in sterile mice by reducing high-circulating cholesterol with a bacterial protein, showing further evidence that ...
Princeton Chem, IAS uncover spatial patterns in distribution of galaxies
In late 2021, Salvatore Torquato, on sabbatical from Princeton’s Department of Chemistry, reached across the aisle as it were and ...
Researchers look to AI for decision-making in extreme situations
Imagine you are a doctor managing the emergency room of a large hospital. You suddenly get a call reporting a ...
Embedding aligned nanofibrous architectures within 3D-printed polycaprolactone scaffolds for directed cellular infiltration and tissue regeneration
The existing 3D-printed scaffolds commonly possess a thick feature size of hundreds of micrometers, which is too large for most ...
Ovarian development of yellow-spined bamboo locust sheds light on emergence and migratory nature of pest
Scientists from the Chinese MARA-CABI Joint Laboratory for Biosafety have created a model which can estimate adult emergence periods and ...
Ochsner Health announces new Aortic Center; subscribes to cutting-edge imaging with Cydar Technology
NEW ORLEANS, La. – Global death rates from aortic diseases have steadily increased over the past two decades. Studies show ...
Oncotarget | MTAP loss in metastatic breast cancer patients: Genomic landscape
“In breast cancer, MTAP downregulation activates ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) which in turn leads to formation of putrescine which promotes tumor ...
Global maternal Strep B vaccination program could save millions and prevent thousands of deaths worldwide
A global maternal immunization program for group B Streptococcus - strep B - would save millions in healthcare costs by ...
Pinpoint simulations provide perspective on universe structure
The universe is peppered with galaxies, which, on large scales, exhibit a filamentary pattern, referred to as the cosmic web. ...
Learning behavior differs between OCD and problem gambling
Shinsuke Suzuki at The University of Melbourne, Australia reports distinct patterns of reward-seeking behavior between obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and ...
Fighting intolerance with physics
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2023 – In a world experiencing growing inequality and intolerance, tools borrowed from science and mathematics could ...
Simulating cuts and burns reveals wound healing and clearing power of fibroblasts
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2023 – Burn wounds are notoriously prone to bacterial infection and typically lead to a larger amount ...
[Press Release] SMART researchers develop the world’s first microneedle-based drug delivery technique for plants
SMART researchers develop the world's first microneedle-based drug delivery technique for plantsCredit: Photo Credit: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology ...
Understanding the reproductive strategy in the endangered Chinese sturgeon
The Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis) is the largest anadromous fish in the Yangtze River and is considered a critically endangered ...
Observation of molecular self-assembly of peptides and understanding the mechanism of seamlessly bridging biology with a technological solid
What is a peptide, and how is it different than a protein? Just like a protein, a peptide also has ...
The ‘Rapunzel’ virus: an evolutionary oddity
A recent study in the Journal of Biological Chemistry has revealed the secret behind an evolutionary marvel: a bacteriophage with an extremely ...
Mirror-image molecules can modify signaling in neurons
With the aid of some sea slugs, University of Nebraska–Lincoln chemists have discovered that one of the smallest conceivable tweaks ...
