Making nanodiamonds out of bottle plastic
What goes on inside planets like Neptune and Uranus? To find out, an international team headed by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf ...
‘Diamond rain’ on giant icy planets could be more common than previously thought
Menlo Park, Calif. — A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant ...
EP-WXT pathfinder catches first wide-field snapshots of X-ray universe
EP-WXT Pathfinder, the experimental version of a module that will eventually be part of the wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT) aboard ...
Belimumab is efficacious for lupus nephritis in East Asian adults
This prespecified subgroup analysis of East Asian adults who participated in a phase 3 clinical trial of belimumab added to ...
New study confirms ‘rippled sheet’ protein structure predicted in 1953
An unusual protein structure known as a “rippled beta sheet,” first predicted in 1953, has now been created in the ...
nTIDE August 2022 Jobs Report: Employment indicators virtually unchanged for people with disabilities despite concerns about recession
East Hanover, NJ – September 2, 2022 – Despite concerns about the impact of inflation, employment indicators remained virtually unchanged, ...
Study reveals starring role for shape-shifting mitochondria in stem cell function
Mitochondria are remarkable shape-shifting organelles that have long been understood as the powerhouses inside our cells. But relatively little is ...
Researchers propose new and more effective model for automatic speech recognition
Popular voice assistants like Siri and Amazon Alexa have introduced automatic speech recognition (ASR) to the wider public. Though decades ...
Research unlocks secrets of native rodents’ rat race to new lands
New research from The Australian National University (ANU) has mapped the DNA from more than 150 species of native rodents ...
Development of a new end-functionalization technique in polymer synthesis
Vinyl polymerization (polymerization of vinyl compounds) is a useful method for preparing sp3-carbon-based main-chain polymers including commodity plastics, where the ...
Albert Einstein’s doctoral certificate returns to UZH
After traveling the world, Albert Einstein’s doctoral certificate has now returned to where it was issued, the University of Zurich. ...
Did primitive cetaceans feed like marine reptiles?
Did the first ancestors of whales pick up where the mosasaurs left off 66 million years ago, after the extinction ...
Dragons and brain evolution
These days, dragons are keeping Game of Thrones fans on their toes. But they are also providing important insights into ...
Spatiotemporal variation of mortality burden attributable to heatwaves in China, 1979-2020
This study is led by Dr. Cunrui Huang (Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University). Heatwaves impose heavy disease burden ...
Doctoral thesis studied factors supporting dual careers of young athletes
Stemming from holistic ecological approach, to better understand and support student-athletes development, a variety of factors and their interactions need ...
Quantum materials: entanglement of many atoms discovered for the first time
In physics, Schroedinger’s cat is an allegory for two of the most awe-inspiring effects of quantum mechanics: entanglement and superposition. ...
SPIE journal Neurophotonics publishes comprehensive status report on optical imaging methods for brain science
BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — The SPIE journal Neurophotonics has published the second part of a comprehensive two-part series that provides an extensive ...
How artificial intelligence can explain its decisions
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to recognise whether a tissue image contains a tumour. However, exactly how it makes ...
Conservation schemes for farmland birds in Europe – closing conference of the Birds@Farmland initiative
The Birds@Farmland Initiative developed 22 conservation schemes for birds inhabiting European farmland. These conservation schemes – among others – introduce ...
‘Plug-and-play’ plasmonic metafibers for ultrafast fibre lasers
Integrating plasmonic metasurfaces on optical fibre tips forming so-called metafibers enrichs the functionalities of an ordinary optical fibre, yielding a ...