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Feral colonies provide clues for enhancing honey bee tolerance to pathogens
Credit: Katy Evans, Penn State Understanding the genetic and environmental factors that enable some feral honey bee colonies to tolerate...
Lasers create miniature robots from bubbles (video)
Credit: Video credit belongs to the American Chemical Society. Robots are widely used to build cars, paint airplanes and sew...
European eels – one gene pool fits all
Credit: Anders Asp, SLU European eels spawn in the subtropical Sargasso Sea but spend most of their adult life in...
Novel effector biology research provides insights into devastating citrus greening disease
Credit: Kelley J. Clark, Zhiqian Pang, Jessica Trinh, Nian Wang, and Wenbo Ma Citrus greening disease, also known as Huanglongbing...
NUST MISIS scientists develop fastest-ever quantum random number generator
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS An international research team has developed a fast and affordable quantum random number generator. The device...
Type 2 Diabetes: New Evidence Underlines the Role of Obesity in Late Complications
Credit: Source: DIfE Successful weight loss is considered to be an integral part of the therapy for type 2 diabetes....
A critical review of graphene quantum dots and their application in biosensors
Credit: Authors In a paper published in NANO, researchers from Hubei, China discuss the top-down and bottom-up strategies for the...
Brazilian dam collapse could have been predicted with right monitoring technology
Credit: Google Earth One of Brazil's worst environmental disasters - a dam collapse that also killed more than 200 people...
OHIO researchers ID potential target for anti-viral drugs to battle COVID
OHIO researchers published the first structural biology analysis of a section of the COVID-19 viral RNA called the stem-loop II...
Mechanism that produces rapid acceleration in clicking beetles identified
Credit: Virginia Tech Did you know that fleas, ants, and click beetles are capable of blazingly fast accelerations, with some...
Balancing brain cell activity
Specialized sites within nerve cells are responsible for a rapid balancing of the amount of activity in the brain.Credit: Netherlands...
Researchers develop a new approach to detect pancreatic cancer
Credit: ACS Pharmacol. Transl. Sci. Nov./Dec. 2020 (3, 6), © 2020 American Chemical Society A protein found commonly in human...
Getting shapes into numbers
A mathematical framework enables accurate characterization of shapesCredit: MPI-MP, Jacqueline Nowak In nature, many things have evolved that differ in...
Boosted photocatalysis for hydrogen evolution: Reactant supply thru phosphonate groups
Credit: Copyright © 2020 Yosuke Kageshima, Shinshu University Water splitting research for solar hydrogen production has focused on physical processes...
Climate-related species extinction possibly mitigated by newly discovered effect
According to a new study, future climate-related species extinction could be less severe than predictions based only on the current...
Two-photon polymerization of PEGda hydrogel microstructure with low threshold power with green laser
Credit: by Haoyi Yu, Haibo Ding, Qiming Zhang, Zhongze Gu, and Min Gu Three-dimensional (3D) direct laser writing (DLW) based...
New tool for assessing the benefits, risks and sustainability of the consumption of fish
Researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona) have optimised the website FishChoice, which helps to consume fish and seafood...
Fighting respiratory virus outbreaks through ‘nano-popcorn’ sensor-based rapid detection
Researchers develop novel sensor for the improved detection of influenza A viruses, with high reproducibilityCredit: Arek Socha from Pixabay Viral...
Fish sex organs boosted under high-CO2
Credit: Southern Seas Ecology Laborator Research from the University of Adelaide has found that some species of fish will have...
Teamwork in a molecule
Chemists at University of Jena (Germany) harness synergy effect of galliumCredit: Jens Meyer/University of Jena "Such reactions are usually carried...
