How that preprint about a ‘more contagious strain’ of coronavirus changed in peer review
Credit: Korber et al. / Cell On May 5, 2020, news broke about a reportedly more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2--the ...
A loving ‘outsider’s’ bird’s eye-view of China’s transformation
World Scientific publishes 'China's Millennium Transformation, the Belt and Road Initiative,' an unusual book by Da Hsuan FengCredit: World Scientific ...
Targeting deep areas of the skeletal muscles effectively alleviates postoperative pain
In a clinical trial, the NETOIMS method rapidly reduced pain resulting from open abdominal surgery, according to Journal of American ...
Unprecedented ground-based discovery of 2 strongly interacting exoplanets
Credit: Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, Mark A. Garlick Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new ...
A scientific measure of dog years
Credit: Ideker Lab, UC San Diego How old is your tail-wagging bundle of joy in human years? According to the ...
Marine alga from the Kiel Fjord discovered as a remedy against infections and skin cancer
GEOMAR research group successfully applies bioinformatics methods and machine learning in marine drug discoveryCredit: Larissa Büdenbender Healing with the help ...
Typhoon changed earthquake patterns
Intensive erosion influenced seismicityCredit: NASA/LANDSAT The Earth's crust is under constant stress. Every now and then this stress is discharged ...
Algae as living biocatalysts for a green industry
Credit: RUB, Marquard Better still: living algae can be used as biocatalysts for certain substances, and they bring the co-substrate ...
A novel sperm selection technology to increase success rates of in vitro fertilization
LEFT: Mouse sperm collected by a conventional cell sorter. Motility cannot be maintained and sperm cannot advance. Motile sperm are ...
The lightest shielding material in the world
Protection against electromagnetic interferenceCredit: Empa Electric motors and electronic devices generate electromagnetic fields that sometimes have to be shielded in ...
New research examines links between religion and parental support from non-family members
Credit: University of Otago "Be fruitful and multiply" says the Bible, and worldwide religious people tend to have more children ...
Science fiction becomes fact — Teleportation helps to create live musical performance
Credit: University of Plymouth Teleportation is most commonly the stuff of science fiction and, for many, would conjure up the ...
Understanding the circadian clocks of individual cells
Two new studies suggest cellular rhythms are guided both by heritable and nonheritable componentsCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - ...
New candidate for raw material synthesis through gene transfer
"Natural gene transfer" into a multicellular cyanobacterium: Phormidium lacuna lends itself to fun-damental research and biotechnical applicationsCredit: Photo: Amadeus Bramsiepe, ...
Cause of abnormal groundwater rise after large earthquake
How a mountain aquifer affected the local hydrological environment after a large earthquakePrior to the earthquake, Kumamoto City area groundwater ...
The COVID-19 Kidney / Transplant Listening & Resource Center
New call center to answer questions, educate, and support the dialysis and transplant community.Credit: Coral Von Zumwalt The Transplant Research ...
Thermophones offer new route to radically simplify array design, research shows
Credit: David Tatnell Scientists have pioneered a new technique to produce arrays of sound produced entirely by heat. The team ...
Fluorine enables separation-free ‘chiral chromatographic analysis’
Credit: ZHAO Yanchun Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently developed a ...
In the Arctic, spring snowmelt triggers fresh CO2 production
The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the world and snowmelt is speeding it up with rapid soil ...
Global e-waste surging: Up 21% in 5 years
A record 53.6 million tons (Mt) of e-waste was produced globally in 2019, the weight of 350 cruise ships the ...
