Only the nose knows: New international network explores how odors lead to actions
Credit: Glenn Asakawa, CU Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder will lead a groundbreaking new international research network dubbed Odor2Action...
Farmers’ quick sale of poultry during outbreaks may increase deadly virus transmission
Credit: Alexis Delabouglise, CIRAD/Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Small-scale poultry farmers in Vietnam tend to respond to viral outbreaks...
Researchers dramatically downsize technology for fingerprinting drugs and other chemicals
Tiny photonic chip could fit comfortably within the tip of a fingerCredit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering As new...
Tungsten isotope helps study how to armor future fusion reactors
Credit: Jaimee Janiga/ORNL The inside of future nuclear fusion energy reactors will be among the harshest environments ever produced on...
Cellular energy audit reveals energy producers and consumers
A team at Gladstone Institutes screened the human genome for genes that play a role in making or consuming cellular...
Capturing big picture connection of macro- and micro-evolution – NSF grant
Credit: Virginia Tech Scientists know a lot about evolution. And like, evolution, this knowledge is always changing, growing, becoming stronger....
What did the katydids do when picking up bat sounds?
When predator and non-predator cues are similar in the same habitatCredit: Laurel Symes Ithaca, N.Y.--Ecosystems can be incredibly complex, with...
Researchers explore how retail drone delivery may change logistics networks
Credit: UT Dallas Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas say drone technology has the potential to be a...
Maternal insecticide use during pregnancy and neonatal jaundice
Credit: Copyright © 2020, Springer Nature The data of 61,751 pregnant women, out of approximately 100,000 collected by the Japan...
The “gold” in breast milk
Alarmins have a positive post-natal impact on the development of intestinal flora and the immune systemCredit: © Sven Döring für...
Researcher receives NIH grant to study noninvasive treatment for metastatic breast tumors
Credit: Laura McWhinney for Virginia Tech Eli Vlaisavljevich, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics at Virginia Tech, received...
A novel salvinia-like slippery surface
Credit: ©Science China Press Superhydrophobic surfaces are widely used in many industrial settings, which mainly consist of rough solid protrusions...
Preventing infection, facilitating healing: New biomaterials from spider silk
New biomaterials developed at the University of Bayreuth prevent colonization by bacteria and fungi, but at the same time proactively...
How bacteria adhere to fiber in the gut
Molecular mechanics of bacterial superglueCredit: University of Basel, Department of Chemistry Researchers have revealed a new molecular mechanism by which...
Failures of Germany’s largest cliff coast sensed by seismometers
Dry summers are increasing the risk of large cliff collapsesCredit: photo: Kristen Cook, GFZ The ten km long, bright white...
A young scientist of Samara Polytech invented a glove for the deaf
A unique invention will help people with profound hearing loss to get a better spatial awarenessCredit: @Samara Polytech Today, the...
Optical imaging enters sub-nanometer era
Credit: YANG Ben, HUANG Wen et al. Prof. DONG Zhenchao and Prof. HOU Jianguo from University of Science and Technology...
Round nanoparticles improve quality factors of surface lattice resonances: Study
Credit: SIAT Plasmonic surface lattice resonances (SLRs) supported by metal nanoparticle arrays have many merits such as strong field enhancements...
Observation charge accumulation at nanocavity on plasmonic photocatalyst
Credit: ©Science China Press Strong interaction between plasmonic nanoparticles and free-space light induced the evanescently confined modes on the nanoparticle...
The northern quoll: An amazingly versatile survivor?
Credit: Nellie Pease The northern quoll, one of Australia's most adorable and endangered native carnivores, appears to be adapted to...
