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Is the past (and future) there when nobody looks?
Credit: © Aloop, IQOQI-Wien, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften In 1961, the Nobel prize winning theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner proposed what...
Earth’s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago
Ancient zircons from the jack hills of western Australia hone date of an event that was crucial to making the...
Sensors developed at URI can identify threats at the molecular level
More sensitive than a dog's nose and the sensors don't get tiredCredit: (Photo courtesy of Otto Gregory.) KINGSTON, R.I. -...
Ventilating the rectum to support respiration
Credit: Institute of Research,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - Oxygen is crucial to many forms of life. Its delivery to the organs...
Researchers pinpoint possible way to prevent permanent hearing loss caused by cancer drug
Deeper understanding of how the chemotherapy drug cisplatin works in the body may potentially eliminate the toxic side-effect in childhood...
Male hormones regulate stomach inflammation in mice
NIH research could lead to new treatment strategies for stomach cancerCredit: Jonathan Busada, Ph.D./NIEHS Scientists at the National Institutes of...
Maternal stress during pregnancy may shorten lifespans of male lizard offspring
Credit: Tracy Langkilde, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Mother fence lizards that experience stress during pregnancy give birth to...
First test of tropical seaweed farming for biofuels production begins off Puerto Rico
Credit: Loretta Roberson, MBL WOODS HOLE, Mass. and La Parguera, P.R. - A team of researchers led by Loretta Roberson...
Climate change threatens one-third of global food production
New estimates show that if greenhouse gases continue growing at current rates, large regions at risk of being pushed into...
Lockdown led to positive lifestyle changes in older people
Credit: University of Stirling The COVID-19 lockdown was a catalyst for many older people to embrace technology, reconnect with friends...
Using micro-sized cut metal wires, Japanese team forges path to new uses for terahertz waves
Credit: Takehito Suzuki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Japanese researchers successfully tested reflectionless, highly refractive index metasurface that may...
Researchers develop first-in-class inhibitors against key leukemia protein
Approach opens a new avenue to study the biology of acute leukemia and for the development new drugs.Credit: Grembecka /...
Nanophotonics enhanced coverslip for phase imaging in biology
Credit: by Lukas Wesemann, Jon Rickett, Jingchao Song, Jieqiong Lou, Elizabeth Hinde, Timothy J. Davis, and Ann Roberts The ability...
New research will improve safety and quality of Heparin
Credit: University of Nottingham A new method to analyse the blood thinning drug Heparin has been developed that can pinpoint...
Charting the expansion history of the universe with supernovae
Credit: NAOJ An international research team analyzed a database of more than 1000 supernova explosions and found that models for...
Yoga and breathing exercises aid children with ADHD to focus
Psychologists discovered long-term benefits from exerciseCredit: UrFU / Karina Golovanova. Yoga and breathing exercises have a positive effect on children...
Where on Earth is all the water?
There may be up to 70 times more hydrogen in Earth's core than in the oceansCredit: © 2021 Tagawa et...
Hanging by a thread: Imaging and probing chains of single atoms
Scientists develop a method to visualize monoatomic chains and measure the strength and conductance of single-atom bondsCredit: Yoshifumi Oshima Ishikawa,...
Nagoya University scientists reveal unprecedentedly versatile new DNA staining probe
New dye breaks new ground in versatility and capability, with applications in super high-resolution imaging and beyondCredit: Yoshikatsu Sato A...
NUS and Shell join hands to advance decarbonisation solutions
New S$4.6 million research programme aims to sustainably convert carbon dioxide into cleaner fuels and useful chemicalsCredit: National University of...
