Flying foxes in SA exposed to zoonotic viruses
Credit: Photo by Craig Greer University of Adelaide researchers have found that South Australia's population of Grey-headed flying foxes, which...
Who takes the temperature in our cells?
Baker's yeast cells provide information on how organisms could cope with global warming and other altered environmental factorsCredit: (c) TUD/BIOTEC...
Mathematics to keep farmers on track
Credit: Kenshi Sakai / TUAT Tokyo, Japan - Scientists at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) used nonlinear...
Water loss in northern peatlands threatens to intensify fires, global warming
Boreal climate change study features 59 authorsCredit: Manuel Helbig, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, May 11, 2020 - A group of...
Single-cell RNA seq developed to accurately quantify cell-specific drug effects in pancreatic islets
Credit: © Brenda Marquina-Sánchez and Nikolaus Fortelny / CeMM The pancreas is an abdominal organ that produces digestive enzymes as...
Photosynthesis in a droplet
Researchers develop an artificial chloroplastCredit: Max Planck Institute for terrestrial Microbiology/Erb For hundreds of millions of years plants have had...
GCS centres support research to mitigate impact of COVID-19 pandemic
High-performance computing provides essential tools for drug discovery and epidemiological modeling in the fight against the global pandemicCredit: Barbarossa, et...
Belt and Road’s financiers fall short on biodiversity
Credit: The University of Queensland Most financiers of international infrastructure program, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), are falling short...
Future information technologies: 3D quantum spin liquid revealed
Credit: HZB They found spin liquid behaviour in 3D, due to a so called hyper hyperkagome lattice. The experimental data...
New OA Journal of European Landscapes by Amsterdam University Press launched on ARPHA
By crossing traditional disciplinary and regional borders, this innovative peer-reviewed journal will document landscape studies and project results while inspiring...
Rich interface defects accelerate the electro-oxidation of 5-HMF
Credit: ©Science China Press 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), which is produced by oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), is the crucial precursor for...
Artificial synapses on design
Tiny material differences are crucial for the functional behavior of memristive devicesCredit: Copyright: RWTH Aachen / Peter Winandy Scientists around...
Material manufacturing from particles takes a giant step forward
A team led by Aalto University has now shown another remarkable property of nanocelluloses: Their strong binding properties to form...
A tale of two kinds of volcanoes
Credit: Ms Therese van Wyk, University of Johannesburg At an idyllic island in the Mediterranean Sea, ocean covers up the...
Blood test a potential new tool for controlling infections
Credit: Mayeta Clark, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia A new technique could provide vital information about a community's immunity...
Unraveling the magnetism of a graphene triangular flake
Credit: CIC nanoGUNE Graphene is a diamagnetic material, this is, unable of becoming magnetic. However, a triangular piece of graphene...
Peptides that can be taken as a pill
Credit: C. Heinis (EPFL) Peptides are short chains of amino acids that occur in our body, in plants or bacteria...
Hayabusa2 reveals more secrets from Ryugu
Ryugu's interaction with the sun changes what we know about asteroid historyCredit: © 2020 Morota et al. In February and...
The oldest Upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens in Europe
Major cultural transition in Europe took place earlier than previously thoughtCredit: Tsenka Tsanova, License: CC-BY-SA 2.0 Two studies report new...
Moisture-sucking gels give solar panels the chills
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Youssef A. Khalil A cooling system developed at KAUST has improved the efficiency of a prototype...
