Dramatic loss of food plants for insects
Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Zurich investigated the 100-year development in the canton of ZurichCredit: © Foto: Eliane...
Rice wins fed grant to advance sickle cell disease therapy
Bioengineer Gang Bao studies genome-editing outcomes to enable a future clinical trialCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (April 24, 2020)...
Holistic approach best for tackling nonmedical drug use, study finds
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Health practitioners are constantly developing new ways to help those with...
Quantum electrodynamics experiment
Researchers see application in future quantum technologiesCredit: © Cellule The fundamental laws of physics are based on symmetries that, among...
Bose-Einstein condensate: Magnetic particles behave repulsively
New findings by physicists may be relevant for future information technologies; study in Nature CommunicationsCredit: I. V. Borisenko et al./...
An eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar discovered by FAST
Credit: ESA/Hubble Using the data obtained by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof....
Assessing El Niño’s impact on fisheries and aquaculture around the world
Credit: © IRD - Arnaud Bertrand While considerable resources are invested in seasonal forecasts and early-warning systems for food security,...
Fueling the world sustainably: Synthesizing ammonia using less energy
Credit: Irasutoya, Michikazu Hara Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed an improved catalyst by taking the...
Palaeontologists reveal ‘the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth
Credit: Artwork by Davide Bonadonna 100 million years ago, ferocious predators, including flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters, made the Sahara...
A ‘corset’ for the enzyme structure
University of Bonn: Structure of biocatalysts depends on whether they are in cells or in the test tubeCredit: © Foto:...
Diverse livelihoods helped resilient Levänluhta people survive a climate disaster
Credit: Anna Wessman A multidisciplinary research group coordinated by the University of Helsinki dated the bones of dozens of Iron...
Training instance segmentation neural network with synthetic datasets for seed phenotyping
Development of an efficient method to accelerate the development of machine learning models for plant phenotypingCredit: Issey Takahashi In the...
Brain insulin sensitivity determines body weight and fat distribution
Credit: IDM Just where fat is deposited in the body and to what degree a person may benefit from a...
Organic heterostructures composed of one- and two-dimensional polymorph
Credit: ©Science China Press Organic heterostructures (OHSs) with high spatial and angular precision are key component of the organic optoelectronics,...
Hubble celebrates its 30th anniversary with a tapestry of blazing starbirth
Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI Hubble Space Telescope's iconic images and scientific breakthroughs have redefined our view of the Universe....
Colliding solitons in optical microresonators
Credit: Weng Wenle/EPFL Solitons are self-reinforcing particle-like wave packets enabled by the balance between dispersion and nonlinearity. Occurring in hydrodynamics,...
USask VIDO-InterVac awarded $23 million for COVID-19 vaccine research
Credit: University of Saskatchewan The University of Saskatchewan's VIDO-InterVac (Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre) has been awarded $23...
Sanfilippo C syndrome: New brain cell models to evaluate therapies
Fighting degenerative diseasesCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA - CIBERER The Sanfilippo syndrome type C is a severe neurodegenerative disease which appearws...
Indiana State Department of Health, IU partner on COVID-19 study
Study to include random sample testing for SARS-CoV-2 viral infections, antibodiesCredit: James Brosher, Indiana University INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana State...
Feeling the pressure: How blood vessels sense their environment
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba identify the protein thrombospondin-1 as a novel extracellular mediator of mechanotransduction triggered by mechanical...
