Releasing brakes: Potential new methods for Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapies
Credit: Courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Researchers identified a group of small molecules that may open the door to ...
A simple retrofit transforms electron microscopes into high-speed atom-scale cameras
Patented 'beam chopper' provides cost-effective way to investigate super-fast processes important for tomorrow's technologyCredit: N. Hanacek/NIST Researchers at the National ...
Boost soybean yields by adapting photosynthesis to fleeting shadows, according to model
Credit: Claire Benjamin/RIPE project CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Komorebi is a Japanese word that describes how light filters through leaves--creating shifting, ...
The seismicity of Mars
Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech On 26 November 2018, the NASA InSight lander successfully set down on Mars in ...
Solar storms could scramble whales’ navigational sense
Gray whales 4.3 times more likely to strand during a cosmic burst of radio staticCredit: Nicholas Metheny NOAA DURHAM, N.C. ...
CRISPR gene cuts may offer new way to chart human genome
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine In search of new ways to sequence human genomes and read critical alterations in DNA, researchers ...
Study puts spin into quantum technologies
The ability to control the spin of atom-like impurities in 2D material hexagonal boron-nitride demonstratedCredit: Dr M. Kianinia A team ...
Why Edgar Allan Poe probably did not kill himself
Credit: Lancaster University A computational analysis of language used by the writer Edgar Allan Poe has revealed that his mysterious ...
Going super small to get super strong metals
Credit: Zhou et al You can't see them, but most of the metals around you--coins, silverware, even the steel beams ...
When coronavirus is not alone
Team of complexity scientists present 'meme' model for multiple diseasesCredit: Joshua Brown/UVM Interacting contagious diseases like influenza and pneumonia follow ...
Researchers analyze influenza epidemiologic supervision and children cases in Catalonia
Credit: UB The viral infections of the upper respiratory tract are an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and, ...
An ‘exceptionally stable’ single-atom catalyst
Single platinum atoms stabilized in C12A7 crystalsCredit: Nature Communications Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have shown that ...
New method gives glaucoma researchers control over eye pressure
Credit: University of South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (February 24, 2020)- Neuroscientists at the University of South Florida have become the ...
Scientists develop a composite membrane for long-life zinc-based flow batteries
Credit: HU Jing Researchers led by Profs. LI Xianfeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese ...
Extra chromosomes in cancers can be good or bad
Credit: Sheltzer lab/CSHL, 2020 Cancer cells are notorious for their genetic disarray. A tumor cell can contain an abundance of ...
Columbia team discovers new way to control the phase of light using 2D materials
Researchers use atomically thin materials -- 1/100,000 the size of a human hair -- to manipulate the phase of light ...
Transport protein efficiently uses three independent lifts to shuttle the goods
Scheme of the transport cycle of glutamate transporters. Four states enclosed in dashed blocks represent structures observed in this work. ...
Rice scientists simplify access to drug building block
László Kürti and team develop one-step process to make crucial precursorCredit: Kürti Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Feb. 24, 2020) ...
Short film of a magnetic nano-vortex
Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Claire Donnelly For the first time, researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have recorded a "3D ...
Mirrored chip could enable handheld dark-field microscopes
Simple chip powered by quantum dots allows standard microscopes to visualize difficult-to-image biological organismsCredit: Image: Cecile Chazot Do a Google ...
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