89% of the Moscow University Herbarium have been digitised in the last three years
Credit: Moscow University Herbarium A senior researcher of the Moscow University Herbarium published in Taxon journal the results of his...
Researchers identify bacteria and viruses ejected from the ocean
Credit: Christina McCluskey/Colorado St. Univ. Certain types of bacteria and viruses are readily ejected into the atmosphere when waves break...
How do insects survive on a sugary diet?
Credit: DANIEL VILLAFRUELA (CC BY 4.0) RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- There's a reason parents tell their kids to lay off the...
Low-cost membrane cleans up light and heavy oils in a single step
Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a low-cost membrane that effectively separates oil and water on demand...
NSF-Simons centers to search for the Rules of Life
Credit: Northwestern University The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the Simons Foundation, has launched four new centers to...
Biosensor technologies to offer more effective approaches to disease treatment
Credit: Steve Morton Every cell in our bodies is shaped by its outer coating, or biomembrane. This incredible, naturally created...
Why bioelectrodes for energy conversion are not stable
Credit: RUB, Kramer Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have discovered why bioelectrodes containing the photosynthesis protein complex photosystem I are...
Faster genome evolution methods to transform yeast for industrial biotechnology
Credit: DAI Junbiao Scientists have created a new way of speeding up the genome evolution of baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae,...
Why do we need one pair of genome?
Credit: Yaguchi K., et al., Journal of Cell Biology, April 30, 2018 Scientists have unraveled how the cell replication process...
Bumblebees confused by iridescent colors
Credit: Karin Kjernsmo Iridescence is a form of structural colour which uses regular repeating nanostructures to reflect light at slightly...
Indigenous communities moving away from government utilities
Indigenous communities are rejecting non-indigenous energy projects in favour of community-led sustainable energy infrastructure. The switch has led to some...
Minneapolis Clinical Trials Program wins Innovative Healthcare Award
MINNEAPOLIS --May 25, 2018--Earlier this month, Minneapolis-based non-profit Be The Match® was presented the Innovative Programs award at the 2018...
UNIST’s design school recognized worldwide
Credit: UNIST The Graduate School of Creative Design Engineering at UNIST has once again received global recognition for its design...
UMD food scientist guides students towards revelatory findings in women’s health
College Park, MD -- In an effort to sustain and educate the next generation of food safety experts in the...
Heart doctors call for permission to provide therapy to stroke patients
Paris, France - 25 May 2018: Heart doctors from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council on Stroke are calling...
Regulatory mutations missed in standard genetic screening lead to congenital diseases
Researchers have identified a type of genetic aberration to be the cause of certain neurodevelopmental disorders and congenital diseases, such...
An elastic fiber filled with electrodes set to revolutionize smart clothes
Credit: EPFL It's a whole new way of thinking about sensors. The tiny fibers developed at EPFL are made of...
New chromosome study can lead to personalised counselling of pregnant women
Foetuses with a so-called new balanced chromosomal aberration have a higher risk of developing brain disorders such as autism and...
USTC reveals the mechanism how moderate sunlight exposure improves learning and memory
USTC researchers have shed new lights on the correlation between sunlight exposure and related neurobehaviors. Combining single-cell mass spectrometry isotopic...
A new guide for explorers of the submicroscopic world inside us
Credit: Courtesy Wladek Minor Researchers from the University of Virginia have established new guidelines for scientists mapping out the body...
