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Cleaner air brings a wetter high mountain Asia
High Mountain Asia (HMA), encompassing the Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding Hindu Kush, Karakoram, and Himalayan ranges, harbors the world's...
Doubling down on known protein families
Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam....
Cover crops reduce carbon loss in the soil of Mediterranean olive groves by more than 75%
Agricultural soils sustain life by producing food, but they also play an essential role in climate change, functioning as carbon...
Journal honors pioneering scientist with new series
While scientific advances are made daily, foundational breakthroughs are rare and require exceptional researchers with unique points of view and...
Gene discoveries could help prevent deadly coronary artery disease
An international team of scientists has identified nearly a dozen genes that contribute to calcium buildup in our coronary arteries...
Scientists raised key questions of solar wind–moon interaction
As the nearest celestial body to Earth, Moon’s space environment is distinctive to Earth’s mainly because of lack of a...
New research unveils intricate mechanism behind immune system’s ability to differentiate between self and non-self antigens
A groundbreaking study, led by Professor Kyemyung Park and his research team in the Graduate School of Health Science and Technology...
Metal-organic frameworks could someday deliver antibacterial nitric oxide
Because metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — highly porous metal complexes — are so structurally and chemically diverse, they could be used...
Killer whales’ diet more important than location for pollutant exposure, study says
Both elegant and fierce, killer whales are some of the oceans’ top predators, but even they can be exposed to...
Tens of thousands of endangered sharks and rays caught off Congo
Tens of thousands of endangered sharks and rays are caught by small-scale fisheries off the Republic of the Congo each...
Bouldering in south-central Madagascar: a new “rock-climbing” gecko species of the genus Paroedura
Named after its habitat preference, Paroedura manongavato, from the Malagasy words “manonga” (to climb) and “vato” (rock), is a bouldering...
Commonly used herbicide is harmful to adolescent brain function
Herbicides are the most used class of pesticides worldwide, with uses in agriculture, homes and industry. Exposures to two of...
New antibiotic drug developed by HKU Chemistry research team approved for clinical trials in humans
A new antibiotic drug developed by a research team led by Professor Li Xuechen from the Department of Chemistry at...
Scientists discover ‘flipping’ layers in heterostructures to cause changes in their properties
Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors are special materials that have long fascinated researchers with their unique properties. For one, they...
Killing remains a threat to Bornean orangutans
University of Queensland research has found despite considerable conservation efforts, the illegal killing of critically endangered orangutans on Borneo may...
Early Cambrian microfossils preserve introvert musculature of cycloneuralians
An international research team led by Prof. ZHANG Huaqiao from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of...
Bringing out the color in zinc
Zinc is an important element that is found widely in biological systems, is cheap to manufacture relative to other metals,...
TB vaccine discovery paves path to end no. 1 killer of people living with HIV
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have discovered a tuberculosis (TB) vaccination strategy that could prevent the...
STARTUP Central project will educate and support biomedical researchers turning innovations into new companies
LAWRENCE — Bringing an idea from a lab to patients and consumers can be a complicated and intimidating process involving...
Humans can make abstract choices independent of motor actions, but in lab tasks, choices are typically reported with an associated action
Humans can make abstract choices independent of motor actions, but in lab tasks, choices are typically reported with an associated...
