New findings unveil a missing piece of human prehistory
A joint research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...
Novel risk score for predicting blood cancer relapse
Medical researchers in China develop a new risk score to predict relapse of leukemia Leukemia is a group of blood ...
Glial cells help mitigate neurological damage in Huntington’s disease
Credit: Dr. J Botas/eLife, 2021 The brain is not a passive recipient of injury or disease. Research has shown that ...
Cosmic hand hitting a wall
Motions of a remarkable cosmic structure have been measured for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The blast ...
The job you want vs. the job you get
Research connects dream jobs with the future of work When it comes to career aspirations for teenagers, a University of ...
Decoding humans’ survival from coronaviruses
An international team of researchers co-led by the University of Adelaide and the University of Arizona has analysed the genomes ...
Spreading of infections = need for collaboration between biology and physics
Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, together with epidemiologist Lone Simonsen from Roskilde University form part of ...
Coronavirus crisis and social citizenship in India
German Research Foundation funds new project at the University of Göttingen The initial spread of the coronavirus in India led ...
Versatile, fast and reliable SARS-CoV-2 antibody assay
Automated microarray rapid test for detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies During the continued progression of the Corona pandemic, rapid, inexpensive, and reliable ...
Membrane proteins of bacteria and humans show surprising similarities
Research cooperation uncovers structure and function of PspA and discovers evolutionary link of a bacterial protein to human ESCRT-III proteins ...
New findings on body axis formation
Heidelberg researchers discover an enzyme that prevents the formation of multiple heads and axes in the freshwater polyp Hydra In ...
Elephant seal diving mystery solved: 24-hour feeding could be climate change sentinel
Female elephant seal weigh on average 350 kg, and dive continuously to the ocean's mesopelagic zone, about 200 to 1,000 ...
Light-sensitive protein in eye of birds is magnetic sensitive as well
Recently, a collaboration of researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Universities of Oldenburg (Germany) and Oxford (UK) ...
South Korean team to develop nanofilm-based “cell cage” technology
A research team, led by Prof. Nathaniel S. Hwang and Prof. Byung-gee Kim, from Seoul National University (SNU) and Prof. ...
Non-invasive potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease
Ultrasound can overcome some of the detrimental effects of ageing and dementia without the need to cross the blood-brain barrier, ...
Theoretical proof that a strong force can create light-weight subatomic particles
Using only a pen and paper, a theoretical physicist has proved a decades-old claim that a strong force called Quantum ...
New two-step algorithm could prove “a paradigm shift” in cloud data confidentiality
The central goal of cloud computing is to provide fast, easy-to-use computing and data storage services at a low cost. ...
Updated analysis of US COVID-19 deaths shows drops, disparities in average lifespans
In the US, COVID-19 reduced overall life expectancy by over 1.3 years, with the effects on Black and Latino populations ...
Ultralight material withstands supersonic microparticle impacts
The new carbon-based material could be a basis for lighter, tougher alternatives to Kevlar and steel A new study by ...
Preventing the break-in of the toxoplasmosis parasite
Scientists from the universities of Geneva and Zurich and the PSI have identified the structure and functions of RON13, an ...