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Fruit flies and mosquitos are ‘brainier’ than most people suspect, say scientists
Findings provide baseline number of brain cells likely needed for complex behaviorsCredit: Joshua Raji and Christopher Potter, Johns Hopkins Medicine....
New research shows: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek led rivals astray
Credit: Rijksmuseum Boerhaave/TU Delft A microscope used by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to conduct pioneering research contains a surprisingly ordinary lens,...
Fibre-optics used to take the temperature of Greenland Ice Sheet
Credit: Poul Christoffersen and RESPONDER team Scientists have used fibre-optic sensing to obtain the most detailed measurements of ice properties...
New cyanobacteria species spotlights early life
Anthocerotibacter panamensis, a newly discovered species of cyanobacteria, can help researchers study the dawn of oxygenic photosynthesisCredit: Fay-Wei Li ITHACA,...
Scientists rewrite the genesis of mosquito-borne viruses
Better designed vaccines for insect-spread viruses like dengue and Zika now possibleCredit: Associate Professor Fasseli Coulibaly Better designed vaccines for...
New pre-clinical model could hold the key to better HIV treatments
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/NIH A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Children's National...
MIT unveils a new action plan to tackle the climate crisis
The Institute commits to net-zero emissions by 2026, charts course marshaling all of MIT's capabilities toward decarbonizationCredit: Image: Christopher Harting...
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...
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