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Nondestructive characterization technique helps gallium nitride crystal developments
Researchers from Osaka University report a nondestructive method for identifying threading dislocations in GaN substrates that could help to improve...
Researchers identify the proteins that cause intestinal disease
How do bacteria take over intestinal cells? Now we knowCredit: Tel Aviv University Researchers from Tel Aviv University have created...
Genome sequencing delivers hope and warning for the survival of the Sumatran rhinoceros
Credit: Scuba Zoo A study led by researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm shows that the last remaining...
New research uncovers continental crust emerged 500 million years earlier than thought
Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI MUNICH -- The first emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth during the Archaean (4 billion...
Mapping the path to rewilding: the importance of landscape
Credit: Credit: David Mencin via Imaggeo MUNICH -- Rewilding--a hands-off approach to restoring and protecting biodiversity--is increasingly employed across the...
Discovery of an elusive cell type in fish sensory organs
Capturing highly motile and invasive neuromast-associated ionocytesCredit: Piotrowski Lab KANSAS CITY, MO--One of the evolutionary disadvantages for mammals, relative to...
Scientists have cultured the first stable coral cell lines
The ability to culture coral cells could usher in a new era in coral biology research.Credit: Reproduced from Researchers have...
Simple robots, smart algorithms
Credit: Shengkai Li, Georgia Tech Anyone with children knows that while controlling one child can be hard, controlling many at...
From toxic ions to single-atom copper
A more efficient, safer alternative to sourcing copper via bacteriaCredit: University of Houston Copper remains one of the single most...
Professor Amro M. Farid receives 2021 Fulbright Scholar Award to Australia
Credit: Robert Gill/Dartmouth Amro M. Farid, associate professor of engineering at Dartmouth and research affiliate in the department of mechanical...
US and Iranian researchers collaborate on Lake Urmia restoration
Credit: Somayeh Sima In a rare exchange, scientists and water resources engineers from Iran and Utah are collaborating on a...
COVID-19 vaccine responses to be studied in people with immune deficits
Enrollment begins at NIH Clinical CenterCredit: NIAID A study assessing how people with immune system deficiencies or dysregulations respond to...
Successful cancer therapy using artificial metalloenzymes to deliver drugs
Credit: RIKEN Researchers led by Katsunori Tanaka and Kenward Vong at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan...
From corals to crops: How life protects the plans for its cellular power stations
Credit: Gemma Lofthouse An international team of researchers led by the University of Bergen has uncovered how organisms from crops...
First description of a new octopus species without using a scalpel
Biologists at the University of Bonn use state-of-the-art non-destructive methods to study an octopus from the deep seaCredit: © Alexander...
Research shows pain relieving effects of CBD
A new study led by researchers at Syracuse University sheds light on the ability of CBD to reduce pain along...
Climate change impacts conservation sites across the Americas
Credit: Professor Stephen Willis A continental-scale network of conservation sites is likely to remain effective under future climate change scenarios,...
Fiber optic cable monitors microseismicity in Antarctica
Credit: Michael Kendall/ University of Oxford At the Seismological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting, researchers shared how they are...
International award for IPK scientist Nils Stein
Credit: IPK Leibniz Institute/ Andreas Bähring "Prof. Dr. Nils Stein will be awarded a medal from the Royal Physiographical Society...
Response options should be at the center of climate risk assessment and management
Credit: Simpson et al. 2021 (please hyperlink to paper) A team of researchers from the Africa Climate and Development Initiative...
