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Credit: RUB, Marquard In the brain, more than a hundred molecular substances act as transmitters that control communication pathways between...

Hubble captures giant star on the edge of destruction

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed...

VR visualization supports research on molecular networks

A new VR platform enables the display of huge amounts of data. This can be helpful in the study of...

Toward new solar cells with active learning

Credit: © Kunkel/FHI How can I prepare myself for something I do not yet know? Scientists from the Fritz Haber...

Fight or flight response may hinge on protein in skeletal muscular system

University of Cincinnati researchers hope to advance the understanding of skeletal muscular disordersCredit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati Researchers at the...

Inhibitory effect of strawberry geranium on inflammatory response in skin keratinocytes

Credit: Maruzen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd Strawberry geranium (Saxifraga stolonifera) has been used in Japan as a herbal medicine to treat...

Red Sea is no longer a baby ocean

Hidden structures reveal 13 million years of seafloor spreadingCredit: GEOMAR It is 2,250 kilometers long, but only 355 kilometers wide...

Engineering single-molecule fluorescence with asymmetric nano-antennas

Credit: by Wenqi Zhao, Xiaochaoran Tian, Zhening Fang, Shiyi Xiao, Meng Qiu, Qiong He, Wei Feng, Fuyou Li, Yuanbo Zhang,...

Recreating the earliest stages of life

Scientists generate synthetic mouse embryos containing the three fundamental cell types normally found in pre-implantation embryosCredit: Gladstone Institutes SAN FRANCISCO,...

Patching up your health

Researchers at Osaka University and JOANNEUM RESEARCH develop ultrathin self-powered e-health patches that can monitor a user's pulse and blood...

Climate-friendly microbes chomp dead plants without releasing heat-trapping methane

Credit: Jian-Yu Jiao/Sun Yat-Sen University The tree of life just got a little bigger: A team of scientists from the...

Successful research development approach helps cancer patients using mobile tech

Research sustainability at the UVA Center for Engineering in MedicineCredit: Dan Addison for UVA Communications, contributed photo from UVA Health...

Army-funded research paves way for improved lasers, communications

Credit: Courtesy University of Pennsylvania RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- New photonics research paves the way for improved lasers, high-speed...

Silver ions hurry up, then wait as they disperse

Rice chemists show ions' staged release from gold-silver nanoparticles could be useful propertyCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (April 22, 2021)...

C-Path opens access to Duchenne Regulatory Science Consortium database

Database will allow sharing of individual-level data with the goal of accelerating therapy development for Duchenne muscular dystrophyCredit: C-Path TUCSON,...

Ancient Indigenous forest gardens promote a healthy ecosystem: SFU study

The researchers say this study marks the first time forest gardens have been studied in North AmericaCredit: SFU A new...

Study paves the way for new photosensitive materials

Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Photocatalysts are useful materials, with a myriad of environmental and energy applications,...

Hungry fruit flies are extreme ultramarathon fliers

In search of food, a fly can travel six million times its body lengthCredit: Floris van Breugel In 2005, an...

Serious play: Tablet-based video games may help people with mild cognitive impairment

UMass Amherst researcher awarded NIH grant to measure effects of mobile game-playingCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst biomedical...

MERS DNA vaccine induces immunity, protects from virus challenge in preclinical model