Drought-induced mortality of conifers
Credit: Manuela Schwendener / University of Basel The extreme summer drought of 2018 was a special situation for both nature ...
Discount on charging electric cars helps to solve traffic jams
Credit: C. Cenedese Charging electric cars can put a strain on the electricity grid. And commuting to work by car ...
Researcher uses bat-inspired design to develop new approach to sound location
Credit: Virginia Tech Inspired by the workings of a bat's ear, Rolf Mueller, a professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia ...
Researchers unveil new ‘time machine’ technique to measure cells
Using a new single-cell technique, WEHI researchers have uncovered a way to understand the programming behind how stem cells make ...
Betting on drones as smart agricultural tools for pesticide use in farms
Researchers assess whether drones can spray pesticides better than conventional technologies in terms of cost, capacity, and management efficiencyCredit: Yuna ...
COVID-19 reduces access to opioid dependency treatment for new patients
Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University COVID-19 has been associated with increases in opioid overdose deaths, which may be in part ...
Designing better antibody drugs with artificial intelligence
Credit: ETH Zurich Antibodies are not only produced by our immune cells to fight viruses and other pathogens in the ...
Confirmed: Island gigantism and dwarfism result of evolutionary island rule
Credit: Frank Glaw, Jörn Köhler, Ted M. Townsend, Miguel Vences, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons It is an old-standing ...
Researchers generate human-monkey chimeric embryos
Credit: Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Investigators in China and the United States have injected human stem ...
Transparent nanolayers for more solar power
Nanostructured material and a new cell design pave the way for the production of silicon solar cells with more than ...
New type of cell contributes to increased understanding of ALS
Credit: Ulf Sirborn The causes of the serious muscle disease ALS still remain unknown. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and ...
Coral reefs prevent more than $5.3 billion in potential flood damage for US property owners
Credit: Map by Chris Lowrie and Jessica Kendall-Bar Coral reefs provide many services to coastal communities, including critical protection from ...
CityU biologists discover super-enhancers that switch on breast cancer genes
Credit: City University of Hong Kong Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive type of breast cancer with a high ...
With impressive accuracy, dogs can sniff out coronavirus
In a proof-of-concept study led by the University of Pennsylvania, dogs identified positive samples with 96% accuracyCredit: Pat Nolan Many ...
Patients who are overweight or obese at risk of more severe COVID-19
Credit: i yunmai Patients who are overweight or obese have more severe COVID-19 and are highly likely to require invasive ...
Saving the planet, and ourselves
A philosopher for our troubled times: Brian MedlinCredit: Flinders University 2020 began with Australia ablaze, forests from Brazil to Siberia ...
Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B Volume 11, Issue 3 publishes
Credit: Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/acta-pharmaceutica-sinica-b/vol/11/issue/3 The Journal of the Institute of Materia Medica, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences ...
Making waves in oceanography
New research finds upwelling defies prior theoriesCredit: Jochen Kaempf, Flinders University A new scientific discovery in Australia by Flinders University ...
Keep calm! How blood vessels are kept in check
Credit: BIH/Michael Potente The inner surface of blood vessels is lined by a wafer-thin layer of cells known as the ...
Classification scheme developed for newly identified multiple sclerosis-like disease
Credit: Tohoku University Researchers in the Department of Neurology at Tohoku University, which is led by professor Masashi Aoki, have ...
