Northern lakes at risk of losing ice cover permanently, impacting drinking water
Credit: York University Postdoctoral Fellow Alessandro Filazzola TORONTO, Jan. 13, 2021 - Close to 5,700 lakes in the Northern Hemisphere ...
Compound from medicinal herb kills brain-eating amoebae in lab studies
Credit: Adapted from ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00685 Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly disease caused by the "brain-eating ...
Raman spectroscopy shows promise for diagnosing oral cancer
Technology could enable non-invasive cancer screening in the dentist's chairCredit: Levi Matthies, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf WASHINGTON -- In a ...
The cancer microbiome reveals which bacteria live in tumors
Researchers clean up data to identify the bugs betterCredit: Anders Dohlman, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke ...
Superheroes, foods and apps bring a modern twist to the periodic table
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Chemical Education 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c01143 Many students, especially non-science majors, dread chemistry. The first lesson ...
Pollinators not getting the ‘buzz’ they need in news coverage
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A dramatic decline in bees and other pollinating insects presents a ...
DOD funding helps expand study of investigational drug to prevent ARDS in COVID
Credit: Cody Duty/UTHealth Researchers evaluating whether an investigational oral drug, vadadustat, can help prevent acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in ...
Error protected quantum bits entangled
A milestone in the development of fault-tolerant quantum computerCredit: Uni Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch Even computers can miscalculate. Already small disturbances change ...
Flashing plastic ash completes recycling
Rice lab's turns pyrolyzed ash into graphene for improving concrete, other compoundsCredit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 13, 2021) ...
A fly’s eye view of evolution
Research team led by Göttingen University investigates molecular basis of eye size variation in insectsCredit: Georg Bullinger The fascinating compound ...
Researchers at Brazil’s space institute discover why lightning branches and flickers
Analysis of the first super slow motion recordings of upward flashes suggests a possible explanation for the formation of luminous ...
NIH scientists study salmonella swimming behavior as clues to infection
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium bacteria (S. Typhimurium) commonly cause human gastroenteritis, inflammation of the lining of the ...
High-sensitivity nanophotonic sensors with passive trapping of analyte molecules in hot-spots
Credit: by Xianglong Miao, Lingyue Yan, Yun Wu and Peter Q. Liu Optical sensors can quantitatively analyze chemical and biological ...
Scientists find antibody that blocks dengue virus
Credit: Rajani Arora, University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute A team of researchers led by the University of California, Berkeley ...
The compound that makes chili peppers spicy also boosts perovskite solar cell performance
Credit: Jin Yang Scientists in China and Sweden have determined that a pinch of capsaicin, the chemical compound that gives ...
Columbia engineers first to observe avalanches in nanoparticles
Researchers develop the first nanomaterial that demonstrates "photon avalanching;" finding could lead to new applications in sensing, imaging, and light ...
Shine on: Avalanching nanoparticles break barriers to imaging cells in real time
Study co-led by Berkeley Lab and Columbia Engineering could lead to simple, high-resolution bioimaging in real time by overcoming a ...
How to keep drones flying when a motor fails
Credit: UZH As anxious passengers are often reassured, commercial aircrafts can easily continue to fly even if one of the ...
Inferring human genomes at a fraction of the cost promises to boost biomedical research
Credit: Delaneau Group Thousands of genetic markers have already been robustly associated with complex human traits, such as Alzheimer's disease, ...
Catalysts: worth taking a closer look
Why do metal oxide surfaces behave differently? At TU Wien, a new research method was found to answer important questions.Credit: ...