Plastic pollution can kill variety of ocean embryos
High levels of plastic pollution can kill the embryos of a wide range of ocean animals, new research shows.Credit: Dr ...
Year: 2024
An enzyme makes mushrooms “magical”
The psychoactive substance psilocybin is the most important natural product of so-called “magic mushrooms” of the genus Psilocybe, which makes ...
Older males out-compete young males when it comes to extra-marital breeding
Young male blue tits are less successful in fathering offspring outside their breeding pair, not because of a lack of ...
Analyzing isotopes for nitrate in sake for combating beverage fraud in Japan
The demand for sake—a Japanese alcoholic drink—has increased globally. However, the rise in the popularity of sake has the potential ...
NASA’s Fermi mission sees no gamma rays from nearby supernova
A nearby supernova in 2023 offered astrophysicists an excellent opportunity to test ideas about how these types of explosions boost particles, called cosmic ...
Electrical control of magnetism by electric field and current-induced torques
In a recent review article published in Reviews of Modern Physics, Fèlix Casanova from the Nanodevices group at CIC nanoGUNE, ...
Quantum electronics: Charge travels like light in bilayer graphene
An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has demonstrated experimentally that electrons in naturally occurring double-layer graphene ...
Oregon State researchers advance pigment chemistry with moon-inspired reddish magentas
CORVALLIS, Oregon – An Oregon State University researcher who made color history in 2009 with a vivid blue pigment has ...
Novel therapeutic bispecific antibodies for B-cell lymphoma
“Our results indicate that IgM-dependent bispecific antibodies are potent therapeutic agents for B-cell malignancies.”Credit: 2024 Ohashi et al. “Our results ...
EuBiologics’ simplified OCV achieves WHO PQ
- Euvichol-S, developed jointly by EuBiologics and IVI, improves productivity by approximately 40% over Euvichol-Plus®Credit: EuBiologics - Euvichol-S, developed jointly ...
Florida Wildlife Corridor eases worst impacts of climate change
From rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns to intense weather events such as hurricanes, Florida is experiencing significant climate-related challenges ...
A nematode gel to protect crops in Africa and Asia
The fall armyworm is a destructive corn pest, which recently arrived in Africa and Asia from the Americas and began ...
Breakthrough in benzofuran synthesis: New method enables complex molecule creation
In the field of organic chemistry, scientists are always looking out for new types of reactions to unlock synthesis routes ...
A single atom layer of gold – LiU researchers create goldene
For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. The material ...
Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found
Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was ...
Can animals count?
HONG KONG (16 April 2024)—A groundbreaking discovery that appears to confirm the existence of discrete number sense in rats has ...
Illuminating the path to hearing recovery
Professor Yunje Cho’s research team from the Department of Life Sciences at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH, Republic ...
ERC Advanced Grant for cutting-edge research on the cell’s immune response
FRANKFURT. The cell’s outer shell determines whether the human adaptive immune system identifies pathogens or not. Figuratively speaking, the cell ...
NIH awards $3.4 million to Wayne State University to investigate biomarkers for better reproductive success
DETROIT - The diagnosis of male fertility has not changed in decades and primarily relies on conventional semen parameter analyses ...
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute team unpacking genetic mysteries of childhood epilepsies
Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes recurring seizures. Credit: Amy Shore/Virginia Tech Epilepsy is a brain disorder that causes recurring ...
