Surprise on Mars
Credit: NASA / JPL An observer standing on Mars would see the planet's moon Phobos cross the sky from west ...
Blood breakdown product commandeers important enzyme
Researchers at the University of Bonn discover unexpected interaction between the protein APC and hemeCredit: (c) Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn The ...
Scientists propose nano-confinement strategy to form sub-nanometer reactors
Credit: LIANG Ji Single-atom catalysts (SACs) are promising in electrocatalysis processes due to their maximum utilization of active species. However, ...
EU research funding in the millions for Saarbrücken-based computational linguist
Credit: Thorsten Mohr, Saarland Universität People infer things beyond what is literally said - and everyone makes his or her ...
Unconventional T cells in severe COVID-19 patients could predict disease outcome
Credit: © 2020 Jouan et al. Originally published in Journal of Experimental Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20200872 Researchers in France have discovered that ...
Nanoearthquakes control spin centers in SiC
Credit: A. Hernandez-Minguez Researchers from the Paul-Drude-Institut in Berlin, the Helmholtz-Zentrum in Dresden and the Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg ...
Autophagy: the beginning of the end
Scientists reveal key steps in the formation of the recycling centers of the cellCredit: © Verena Baumann Autophagosomes first form ...
Japan’s geologic history in question after discovery of metamorphic rock microdiamonds
a: Geological zone in western Japan. The blue-green part is the Sanbagawa belt that crosses mainland Japan. The Nishisonogi metamorphic ...
A chemist from RUDN developed a green catalyst for pharmaceutical and industrial chemistry
Credit: RUDN University Many production facilities (e.g. plastic manufacturers, pharma companies, and others) use nanocatalysts that contain palladium--an expensive component ...
The potential of green infrastructure in mitigating flood impacts: Focused on the mobility of low income and minority comunities
Credit: Photo by Eugene Lee Short-term flooding from extreme storm events poses a serious transportation challenge in U.S. cities. This ...
Quantum leap for speed limit bounds
Rice physicists set far-more-accurate limits on speed of quantum informationCredit: Image courtesy of Zhiyuan Wang/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 3, ...
Do big tadpoles turn into big frogs? It’s complicated, study finds
According to the first research study addressing evolutionary rates of larval and adult life stages at a large scale, the ...
SUTD develops intelligent model simulator that maps complex phenomena of memristor memory
Credit: SUTD Memristor memory technology is set to revolutionise computers the world over as it is touted as one of ...
Coaxing single stem cells into specialized cells
New gel deposition technique developed at UICCredit: Jae-Won Shin and Sing Wan Wong Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago ...
Electric current is manipulated by light in an organic superconductor
An ultrashort pulse laser opens a new pathway toward petahertz electron technologyCredit: NINS/IMS In modern information technology (IT), data are ...
Repulsion mechanism between neurons governs fly brain structure
Credit: Kanazawa University The brain's structure has columnar features, which are hypothesized to arise from nerve cells (neurons) stemming from ...
Fatty acid receptor involved in temperature-induced sex reversal of Japanese medaka fish
The newly discovered sex determination mechanism may lead to improved fish farming techniquesHeat stress activates the PPARα signal in gonadal ...
Offspring of mice fed imbalanced diets shown to be neurologically ‘programmed’ for obesity
Credit: Nobuyuki Sakayori, Hiroshima University Pregnant mice fed a diet high in omega-6 fats and low in omega-3 fats produce ...
Why lime juice burns your skin in the sun (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, September 4, 2020 -- Did you know that making margaritas and then heading to ...
Misaligned planet-forming rings around triple young stars
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Bi et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...
