Australian GPs widely offering placebos, new study finds
Active and inactive alternatives offered to patientsCredit: University of Sydney Most Australian GPs have used a placebo in practice at ...
EMBL and Leica sign open innovation collaboration agreement
Credit: Massimo del Prete/EMBL EMBL often cooperates with industry partners, and has cooperated successfully with Leica for many years. Based ...
Evidence: Antarctica’s thinning ice shelves causing more ice to move from land into sea
Researchers have produced the first physics-based quantifiable evidence that thinning ice shelves in Antarctica are causing more ice to flow ...
Satellite imagery shows Typhoon Kammuri’s center obscured
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP or S-NPP satellite passed over the Philippine Sea in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean ...
Protein defect leaves sperm chasing their tails
A team led by researchers from Osaka University identify a protein required for electrical signal sensing, which, when defective, causes ...
E4 Ecography Award for Ludmilla Figueiredo
Credit: Photo: Robert Emmerich / University of Wuerzburg Calcareous grasslands are dry, nutrient-poor habitats that occur frequently in the north ...
Sweet potato uses a single odor to warn its neighbors of insect attack
Odor induces a defense response in sweet potatoes to herbivores and protects other plants against potential invaders.Credit: Anja Meents, Max ...
NASA-NOAA satellite analyzes a strengthening Typhoon Kammuri
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/UWM-SSEC-CIMSS, William Straka III NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with infrared and nighttime views of Typhoon Kammuri ...
Researchers at IRB Barcelona study how altered protein degradation contributes to the development of tumors
Credit: Francisco MartÃnez, IRB Barcelona. To understand the molecular bases of cancer, it is imperative to determine the genetic alterations ...
Decades old debate settled: Golgi key to maintenance of molecule-sorting station in cells
New mechanism to explain how the cell organelle that sorts and distributes substances entering a cell is formed and maintainedCredit: ...
The tone of voice varies when cells communicate
Credit: Anna Larsson How cells communicate is the focus of a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg. "By studying ...
Frankfurt archaeologists investigate ‘lost cities’ in Oman
Early career researcher Stephanie Döpper awarded funding by Gerda Henkel Foundation to study abandoned mud-brick settlements in OmanCredit: Stephanie Döpper ...
1940s blood samples reveal historical spread of malaria
Credit: Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) DNA from 75-year old eradicated European malaria parasites uncovers the historical spread of one ...
Transregional research center examines the formation of Earth
The German Research Foundation funds a joint Collaborative Research Center between Freie Universität Berlin and Münster UniversityCredit: privat A Transregional ...
Scientist leads international team to crack 60-year-old mystery of Sun’s magnetic waves
Credit: Queen's University Belfast A Queen's University Belfast scientist has led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery of why ...
Solving the thermoelectric ‘trade-off’ conundrum with metallic carbon nanotubes
Strategy to bypass trade-off between thermoelectric voltage and conductivityCredit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo, Japan - Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University ...
LJI researchers reveal unexpected versatility of an ancient DNA repair factor
Based on its history, HMCES could be the most important protein you've never heard ofCredit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology ...
Strategic collaboration agreement signed between ScienceOpen and Pensoft
Credit: ScienceOpen and Pensoft The research discovery platform ScienceOpen and Pensoft Publishers have entered into a strategic collaboration partnership with ...
First electrons turn in the new ESRF-EBS Storage Ring
Credit: ESRF/stef Cande 2 December 2019 - The first electrons have been injected in the new ESRF Extremely Brilliant Source ...
Significant developments in gamut mapping for the film industry
Presented in an article published on Nov. 14 in the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine IntelligenceCredit: UPF ...
