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Most colors are eco criminals: Here’s how to make purple greener
The colors of our clothes, cosmetics, furniture and all sorts of things around us are nearly all based on crude...
The front end of SEL (Station of Extreme Light) 100 PW laser facility in Shanghai
Ultra-high intensity, ultrafast femtosecond lasers, with peak powers at a level of 10 petawatt (PW) or even higher, have led...
Measuring times in billionths of a billionth of a second
How fast do electrons inside a molecule move? Well, it is so fast that it takes them just few attoseconds...
“Pac-man” strategy of Dis1 protein for microtubule shortening in fission yeast
Cell division, i.e., the process through which a parent cell divides into two daughter cells, is fundamental to the growth,...
New 3D-printing ink could make cultured meat more cost-effective
Cultured meat (also known as cell-based or lab-grown meat) is a promising, more environmentally friendly alternative to meat produced from...
CityU researchers develop wireless, ultrathin “Skin VR” to provide a vivid, “personalised” touch experience in the virtual world
Enhancing the virtual experience with the touch sensation has become a hot topic, but today’s haptic devices remain typically bulky...
New study suggests walnuts may fend off stress-related negative impacts in university students
Being a university student is an especially stressful time in life. In fact, eight in 10 university students report experiencing...
Mapping the world’s food production footprint on climate and environment
By the time the food we eat gets to our table, it has travelled a long way – from production,...
Experts in insect taxonomy “threatened by extinction” reveals the first European Red List of Taxonomists
While insect populations continue to decline, taxonomic expertise in Europe is at serious risk, confirms data obtained within the European...
Ebola vaccine regimens safe, immunogenic in adults and children
WHAT: Two randomized, placebo-controlled trials evaluating three Ebola vaccine administration strategies in adults and children found that all the regimens...
The SARS-CoV-2 RBD antigen could be produced by bio-engineered plants for large-scale use in serology tests and vaccines
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277668Credit: Allyson MacLean, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277668 Article Title: Scalable agroinfiltration-based production of SARS-CoV-2 antigens for...
U.S. firearm death trends revealed over four decades
A new analysis of firearm death rates from 1981 to 2020 shows that the people most heavily impacted by firearm...
Gorillas and orangutans may be economically rational but also have pre-existing cognitive biases, according to risk-based decision making experiments
Gorillas and orangutans may be economically rational but also have pre-existing cognitive biases, according to risk-based decision making experiments.Credit: M....
Surgical risk persists for patients who’ve had COVID
When patients undergo any type of surgery after having had COVID, their odds of significant postoperative problems diminish with elapsed...
Researchers recreate periodic structure of spine development without biological clocks
One of the most dramatic phases of fetal development occurs as previously unstructured collections of rapidly dividing precursor cells begin...
Researchers investigated the multi-omic landscape of steatosis-to-NASH progression in mice
The global prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is estimated to be > 25% and will continue to rise....
Confining quarks
A new way to study quarks, one of the building blocks of the protons and neutrons that make up atomic...
Laser controls ultra-fast liquid switch
Laser makes water behave like a high-speed switchCredit: © Adrian Buchmann Laser makes water behave like a high-speed switch All...
USTC make breakthroughs in atomistic neural network representations for chemical dynamics simulations
A team led by Prof. JIANG Bin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) made a series...
Chaos gives the quantum world a temperature
A single particle has no temperature. It has a certain energy or a certain speed - but it is not...
