Lessons in chemistry: Guo aims at fundamental understanding of emerging semiconductor material
Metal halide perovskites have emerged in recent years as a low-cost, highly efficient semiconducting material for solar energy, solid-state lighting ...
How to ensure biodiversity data are FAIR, linked, open and future-proof? Policy makers and research funders receive expert recommendations from the BiCIKL project
Within the Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) project, 14 European institutions from ten countries, spent the last three years ...
Discovery of the first ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs
Who were the earliest ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs? A PhD student from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), ...
Bitter makes the stomach acidic, but how?
In the stomach, so-called parietal cells are responsible for acid production. They react not only to the body's own messenger ...
Distinct population of ‘troublemaker’ platelet cells appear with aging, lead to blood clotting, disease
As people age, they become more prone to blood clotting diseases, when blood cells called platelets clump together when they ...
Courtship through flute song in Indigenous Southern Plains culture #ASA186
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 14, 2024 – Every love story is unique, and in traditional Indigenous Southern Plains culture, it begins ...
SwRI investigating unusual substorm in Earth’s magnetotail using MMS data
SAN ANTONIO — May 14, 2024 —Southwest Research Institute is investigating an unusual event in the Earth’s magnetotail, the elongated ...
Mislabelled shark meat rampant in Australian markets, study finds
Researchers at Macquarie University have found a significant portion of shark meat sold in Australian fish markets and takeaway shops ...
90% of Floridians believe climate change is happening
The latest edition of Florida Atlantic University’s “Florida Climate Resilience Survey,” found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change ...
Using artificial intelligence to speed up and improve the most computationally-intensive aspects of plasma physics in fusion
The intricate dance of atoms fusing and releasing energy has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, human ingenuity and artificial intelligence ...
A bionanomachine for green chemistry
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time precisely characterised the enzyme styrene oxide isomerase, which ...
New transit station in Japan significantly reduced cumulative health expenditures
The declining population in Osaka is related to an aging society that is driving up health expenditures. Dr. Haruka Kato, ...
Metalens expands Its reach from light to sound
Junsuk Rho from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Chemical Engineering, and the Department of Electrical Engineering, Dr. ...
Mount Sinai study identifies genetic link between inflammatory bowel disease and Parkinson’s disease
— Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have made a significant discovery, identifying genetic connections between ...
Derivatives of the thalidomide compound drive resistant cancer cells to their deaths
FRANKFURT. Hardly any other molecule has a more turbulent past than thalidomide. It was the central ingredient in a drug ...
UTA receives Innovation and Economic Prosperity designation
UTA has recently received the Innovation and Economic Prosperity (IEP) designation from APLU, the Association of Public and Land Grant ...
Catch and release can give sea turtles the bends #ASA186
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 13, 2024 – Six out of seven sea turtle species are endangered, and humans are primarily responsible. ...
Evolutionary history shapes variation of wood density
Ecology and evolutionary biology suggest that closely related species are more likely to exhibit morphological and functional similarities compared to ...
Machine learning and AI aiding in the prediction of chemical reaction outcomes
There are few problems now that AI and machine learning cannot help overcome. Researchers from the Yokohama National University use ...
In a reservoir in Southeast Brazil, introduction of a fish native to the Amazon has reduced native species diversity
The Silver croaker (Plagioscion squamosissimus), a fish native to the Amazon (corvina or pescada-branca in Portuguese), is the most probable cause of a ...
