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UNIST embarks on journey to develop ultrafast train
Credit: UNIST Earlier today, UNIST has signed a multi-year strategic partnership agreement with seven research institutes to accelerate the realization...
Limited window to change commuting habits
San Antonio, Texas - Over 128 million daily commuters in the U.S. and 75% report they drive alone. From improving...
Scientists develop first catalysed reaction using iron salts
Credit: University of Huddersfield SCIENTISTS at the University of Huddersfield have developed a new chemical reaction that is catalysed using...
The Large Hadron Collider — the greatest adventure in town
Credit: World Scientific, 2017 Particle Physics usually only hits the headlines when a new particle is discovered or some similar...
New ‘immunoprofiler’ initiative will advance drug discovery
UC San Francisco scientists have formed an innovative research alliance with three global pharmaceutical companies to improve patients' responses to...
Electrocatalysis can advance green transition
Credit: Jakob Kibsgaard, DTU Physics The world population is growing, as is energy demand, and we have long been able...
A new invisibility cloak to conceal objects in diffusive atmospheres is devised
As Carlos García-Meca of the UPV's Centre for Nanophotonic Technology explained, diffusive environments are those in which the light is...
Discovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known
Credit: Yiping Shu (NAOC) and Gabi Perez (SMM/IAC). An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
Snap, digest, respire
Credit: Photo: Lukas Fasbender The Venus flytrap captures insects for more than just nutritional purposes: A research team lead by...
The role of size in development of mucosal liposome-lipopeptide vaccine
Credit: Khairunnisa A. Ghaffar et al , Bentham Science Publishers Group A Streptococcus (GAS), or Streptococcus pyogenes is an exclusivel...
VTT develops raw materials for meatballs and falafel from mealworms and crickets
Credit: VTT VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed food ingredients from mealworms and crickets which, due to their...
New mouse model helps in search for better COPD and CF treatments
Credit: Associate Professor Tsuyoshi Shuto Researchers from Kumamoto University, Japan have succeeded in producing a mouse model that faithfully reproduces...
Melting solid below the freezing point
Credit: Chuanlong Lin and Guoyin Shen, Carnegie Institution Phase transitions surround us--for instance, liquid water changes to ice when frozen...
Cervical cancer mortality rates may be underestimated
A new analysis reveals that for most women, the risk of dying from cervical cancer is higher than previously thought....
E-cigarettes are expanding tobacco product use among youth
E-cigarettes - thought by some to be responsible for a decline in youth cigarette smoking - are actually attracting a...
Cervical cancer death rates higher among older and black women
A woman's risk of dying of cervical cancer is higher than long believed, particularly among older and black women, new...
Novel regulatory mechanism controls how plants defend themselves against pathogens
Credit: The Sainsbury Laboratory Together with collaborators in Austria, scientists at The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) in Norwich (UK) are unravelling...
Bodyguards in the gut have a chemical weapon
Credit: Yongqi Shao, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Beneficial bacteria in the gut of moth larvae produce an antimicrobial agent that...
Bodywide immune response important for fighting cancer, Stanford researchers say
Fighting off cancer requires the concerted efforts of immune molecules throughout the body, rather than just in the tumor itself,...
Roots of related genetic diseases found in cell powerhouses
Scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered the mechanisms behind a genetic change known to cause a set of...
