Rejuvenating the brain’s disposal system
Heidelberg, 21 December 2016 - A characteristic feature of Alzheimer's disease is the presence of so called amyloid plaques in...
Artificial leaf as mini-factory for drugs
Credit: Bart van Overbeeke To produce drugs sustainably and cheaply, anywhere you want. Whether in the middle of the jungle...
The dirt on packaged rhino beetles
Credit: Aubrey Moore Bags of potting soil have become love hotels and nurseries for the highly invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle...
133 new species described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2016
Credit: © Luiz Rocha SAN FRANCISCO (December 21, 2016) -- In 2016, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added...
New instrumentation for research
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is funding new instrumentation for various fields of knowledge-driven research through two calls....
Chemistry research breakthrough that could improve nuclear waste recycling technologies
Researchers from The University of Manchester have taken a major step forward by describing the quantitative modelling of the electronic...
New ultrasound technique is first to image inside live cells
Credit: University of Nottingham Researchers at The University of Nottingham have developed a break-through technique that uses sound rather than...
Magnetic force pulls baby reef fish back home
Baby reef fish have an internal magnetic 'compass' that directs them home at night, world-first research has revealed. Professor Mike...
Researchers reveal the secret code language of bacteria
Credit: Associate Professor Ditlev E. Brodersen Antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria is a growing global challenge. Danish researchers have now...
Hawaii’s newest species named in honor of President Obama
Credit: Brian Skerry / National Geographic Today, scientists from the Bishop Museum, NOAA, and the Association for Marine Exploration published...
Biomarker for oxidative stress plays a major role in hepatic inflammation
Credit: CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Diet-related diseases like non-alcoholic fatty liver disease...
The luxury of causality: Parallel Intelligence, a proposed move toward the intelligent future
Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning - from the real world. Nine months ago, a computer beat one of the world's...
ANU helps find supercluster of galaxies near Milky Way
Credit: Supplied by the research team The Australian National University (ANU) is part of an international team of astronomers that...
Epigenetic changes promoting cancer metastasis identified
Latest research from New Zealand's University of Otago is shedding new light on why and how cancer cells spread from...
Calculating 1 billion plasma particles in a supercomputer
Credit: Dr. Hiroki Hasegawa Background to the Research The generation of fusion energy utilizes the fusion reaction that occurs inside...
FASEB announces new database of research organism providers
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) launched a new tool to help biomedical and life science investigators...
High-severity wildfires complicate natural regeneration for California conifers
Credit: Hugh Safford/USDA Forest Service A study spanning 10 national forests and 14 burned areas in California found that conifer...
Nanoarray sniffs out and distinguishes multiple diseases
Before modern medical lab techniques became available, doctors diagnosed some diseases by smelling a patient's breath. Scientists have been working...
Flame retardant exposure linked to income, BMI and household smoking
A class of flame retardants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been phased out of production in the U.S....
First light for band 5 at ALMA
The compound view shows a new ALMA Band 5 view of the colliding galaxy system Arp 220 (in red) on...