Deciphering plant immunity against parasites
(University of Bonn) Nematodes are a huge threat to agriculture since they parasitize important crops such as wheat, soybean, and...
AI systems exhibit gender and racial biases when learning language
Loading video... Credit: Aaron Nathans, Princeton University As artificial intelligence systems "learn" language from existing texts, they exhibit the same...
Harnessing CRISPR for rapid detection of viral and bacterial infection
Loading video... Credit: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Researchers have created a version of CRISPR-Cas that can be used...
Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems
Credit: Princeton University In debates over the future of artificial intelligence, many experts think of the new systems as coldly...
Unveiling how nucleosome repositioning occurs to shed light on genetic diseases
Credit: Waseda University Tokyo, April 14 - A research group led by Hitoshi Kurumizaka, a professor of structural biology at...
Device pulls water from dry air, powered only by the sun
Credit: Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally, UC Berkeley. Harvester photos courtesy of MIT. Imagine a future in which...
Bacterial supermachine reveals streamlined protein assembly line
Credit: Image courtesy of Robert Landick MADISON, Wisconsin -- There are many processes that take place in cells that are...
How nature engineered the original rotary motor
Credit: Howard Berg, Harvard University The bacterial flagellum is one of nature's smallest motors, rotating at up to 60,000 revolutions...
Methane seeps in the Canadian high Arctic
Credit: Credit Stephen Grasby and Geological Society of America Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: Cretaceous climate warming led to a significant...
Policymakers ‘flying blind’ into the future of work
PITTSBURGH--Will a robot take away my job? Many people ask that question, yet policymakers don't have the kind of information...
With magnetic map, young eels catch a ‘free ride’ to Europe
Loading video... Credit: Naisbett-Jones Each year, young European eels make their way from breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea to...
Brain tissue from a petri dish
Credit: © ScienceRelations/University of Luxembourg The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity and, of...
Cancer occurrence among African-born blacks differs substantially from US-born blacks
The cancer profile of African-born blacks differs from that of United States-born blacks and varies by region of birth, according...
A battery prototype powered by atmospheric nitrogen
Credit: Zhang et. al. As the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, nitrogen has been an attractive option as a...
Green IT: New switching process in non-volatile spintronics devices
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie) Physicists achieved a robust and reliable magnetization switching process by domain wall displacement without...
New material could save time and money in medical imaging and environmental remediation
Credit: Samuel Dunning and David Steadman/University of Texas at Austin Chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed...
Nearly two billion people depend on imported food
Credit: Aalto University Researchers show empirically: when population pressure increases, food is imported The Earth's capacity to feed its growing...
New study emphasizes the relative scarcity of lake water
Credit: David Seekell What is the volume of water in lakes on Earth? Using a mathematical analysis, researcher David Seekell,...
Oxford University Press and Zhejiang University Press launch Food Quality and Safety
Oxford University Press (OUP), together with Zhejiang University Press (ZUP) in Hangzhou, China, has launched a new, peer reviewed open-access...
Scientists discover master switch to turn on silent biosynthetic gene clusters
Bacteria have supplied some of today's most indispensable anti-cancer and anti-bacterial drugs. Yet these compounds comprise only a fraction of...
