The brain uses minimum effort to look for key information in text
By analysing brain activity, researchers found that the brain regulates its resource use and tries to identify the most essential ...
Angling for underwater WiFi
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Xavier Pita Aquatic internet that sends data through light beams could enable divers to instantly transmit ...
Clinical updates for diagnostic ultrasound during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
Patient and visitor screening, segregation and monitoring of staff, scan vetting, strict protocol adherence help prevent nosocomial transmission of COVID-19 ...
Can your gut microbes tell you how old you really are?
Credit: Insilico Highlights: In 2018 scientists from Gladyshev lab specializing in aging research started a collaboration with Insilico Medicine resulting ...
Bulgaria’s National Cardiac Society pioneers ARPHA’s top-to-bottom bilingual publishing
The first 2020 issue of the society's bilingual journal is already online on a brand new and user-friendly websiteCredit: Bulgarian ...
Danish researchers looking for rare enzyme that can break down plastics
Plastics really can be broken down, and researchers at Aarhus University have started to hunt for the unique enzymes that ...
Matrix imaging: An innovation for improving ultrasound resolution
Credit: Walter et al./PNAS In conventional ultrasounds, variations in soft tissue structure distort ultrasound wavefronts. They blur the image and ...
Tropical disease in medieval Europe revises the history of a pathogen related to syphilis
Genomic analysis of plague victims from a mass burial in Lithuania identifies a medieval woman who was also infected with ...
ModGraProDep: Artificial intelligence and probabilistic modelling in clinical oncology
Mathematic modelling: new frontiers in the fight against cancerCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE Improving the prediction ...
From bacteria to you: The biological reactions that sustain our rhythms
Clues emerge for a potential new treatment for methylation deficienciesCredit: Kyoto University/Jean-Michel Fustin Japan -- Every second of every day, ...
Substandard hand sanitizers readily available on market, confirm pharmacists
'...the general public are often unaware that such products cannot ensure disinfection and are not fit for use amid the ...
An ion channel senses cell swelling and helps cells to choose a response
Mechanosensitive channel transporting ions induces program of cell suicideCredit: (Washington University in St. Louis) After a dry spell, a rainy ...
Scientists develop low-cost, high power density vanadium flow battery stack
Credit: SHI Dingqin The development of renewable energies such as wind energy and solar energy is limited by their inherently ...
Protecting eels protects freshwater biodiversity
Eels serve as a surrogate species for the conservation of biodiversity in freshwater ecosystemsCredit: Kobe University An international research team ...
NUS engineers quintuple the efficiency of moving data bits in silicon chips
Credit: National University of Singapore The Green IC research team at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed an ...
Transforming spleen to liver brings new hope for organ regeneration
Credit: Lei Dong and Chunming Wang Scientists from Nanjing University and University of Macau have transformed the spleen into a ...
A compound unlike any other
Credit: WSU A compound discovered in the gills of wood-eating clams could be the solution to a group of parasites ...
Nation must prepare for COVID-19 related drug shortages
Credit: ATS June 11, 2020-- A new paper published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines the ...
Lack of mitochondria causes severe disease in children
Credit: Gustav Mårtensson Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered that excessive degradation of the power plants of our ...
Crop pathogens ‘remarkably adaptable’
Credit: Clare Thatcher Pathogens that attack agricultural crops show remarkable adaptability to new climates and new plant hosts, new research ...
