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Rice rolls out next-gen nanocars
Chemists prepare single-molecule racecars in anticipation of 2022 competitionCredit: Alexis van Venrooy/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 26, 2020) - Nanomechanics...
Can scientists take the STING out of common respiratory viruses?
Led by Stan Lemon, MD, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and GSK colleagues discovered that the majority of...
Bridges with limb-inspired architecture can withstand earthquakes, cut repair costs
Using expert feedback, Texas A&M researchers quantify the benefits of their new bridge designCredit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering...
Dog training methods help JHU teach robots to learn new tricks
Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, Johns Hopkins...
Neuron-based gene expression study reveals insights on fear and its regulation
Researchers identify potential therapeutic target for fear-based psychiatric illnessesCredit: McLean Hospital Highlights The expression of a gene called CREB in...
How to figure out what you don’t know
Credit: Mikhail Genkin/Engel lab Increasingly, biologists are turning to computational modeling to make sense of complex systems. In neuroscience, researchers...
Modern computational tools may open a new era for fossil pollen research
Credit: Doug Peterson One of the best sources of information on the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and plant diversity over...
A molecular break for root growth
Length of plant roots is controlled by hormonesCredit: U. Benz / TUM Roots are essential for reaching water and nutrients,...
Odds are good for unique 2D compound
Perovskites synthesized at Rice University show potential for valleytronics applicationsCredit: Lou Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 26, 2020) - Engineers...
Emery N. Brown wins SfN’s Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
Credit: MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory The Society for Neuroscience announced today that it has awarded the Swartz...
How cells use mechanical tension sensors to interact with their environment
Credit: Laboratory of Structural Biophysics and Mechanobiology/The Rockefeller University Actin is among the most abundant proteins in cells, and it...
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation announces Thesis Prize winners
Physicists develop tools to study biological processesCredit: Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Tools that may make it possible to noninvasively...
Making biodiesel from dirty old cooking oil just got way easier
New ultra-efficient catalyst can recycle old cooking oil into biodiesel and turn food scraps into high-value complex moleculesCredit: RMIT University...
Timeline of early eukaryotic evolution unveiled
Credit: Utrecht University, IRB Barcelona. One of the most important and puzzling events in the evolution of life has been...
New app to helps voters locate ballot drop boxes
George Mason University cybersecurity experts develops app to help votersCredit: Photo courtesy of George Mason University Mason Engineering cybersecurity researcher...
New lead screening method zooms in on highest-risk areas in Georgia
The method could be applied to any area in the United StatesScreening index scores for low-level lead exposure in Georgia....
Estimating risk of airborne COVID-19 with mask usage, social distancing
The Contagion Airborne Transmission inequality model illustrates correlation between physical distancing and protection, the efficacy of face masks and the...
Powering the future: new insights into how alkali-metal doped flexible solar cells work
Scientists place another piece of the puzzle on how introducing alkali metals into crystals of thin-film flexible solar cells improves...
Real-time opioid overdose tracking system helps show rise after COVID-19’s arrival
Suspected overdose deaths and naloxone rescue attempts by EMS up sharply in Michigan compared with 2019; first responders and public...
Hidden losses deep in the Amazon rainforest
Credit: Vitek Jirinec, LSU Few places on Earth are as rich in biodiversity and removed from human influence as the...