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RUDN University ecologists developed new models to identify environmental pollution sources
Credit: RUDN Univerisity According to a team of ecologists from RUDN University, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can be used as...
OPH looks to CHEO/uOttawa research to help the community fight against Coronavirus
Ottawa measuring daily picture of COVID-19 activity in the community to help us determine our best collective responseCredit: uOttawa Ottawa...
NASA finds hurricane delta packing heavy rainfall
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA's satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations found that Hurricane Delta was bringing...
Turning a hot spot into a cold spot: Fano-shaped local-field responses probed by a quantum dot
Credit: by Juan Xia, Jianwei Tang, Fanglin Bao, Yongcheng Sun, Maodong Fang, Guanjun Cao, Julian Evans, and Sailing He Optical...
Polarimetric parity-time-symmetric photonic system
Credit: by Lingzhi Li, Yuan Cao, Yanyan Zhi, Jiejun Zhang1, Yuting Zou, Xinhuan Feng, Bai-Ou Guan and Jianping Yao Parity-time-symmetric...
Hubble sees swirls of forming stars
Credit: European Space Agency At around 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1365, is captured...
Spitzer space telescope legacy chronicled in Nature Astronomy
Credit: University of Central Florida To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding of our solar...
The NIH funds a $9.3 million Center for Precision Animal Modeling at UAB
Precision disease modeling involves creation of patient-specific disease models that mimic the molecular character of a condition present in a...
Graphene microbubbles make perfect lenses
New method generates precisely controlled graphene microbubbles with perfectly spherical curvature for lensesCredit: H. Lin et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.5.055001. Tiny...
Building a Trojan Horse to fight breast cancer
Credit: Bryan Smith With a nearly $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Michigan State University researchers are...
Identification of a viral factor that impairs immune responses in COVID-19 patients
Credit: ©Kei Sato As of October 2020, SARS-CoV-2 causes an ongoing pandemic, with more than 35 million reported cases and...
NASA shows heaviest rainfall displaced in Typhoon Chan-hom
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL Typhoon Chan-hom was still moving parallel to Japan's east coast as NASA's satellite rainfall product, that incorporates...
Metoprolol: an old drug with unique cardioprotective properties
CNIC scientists have defined the unique ability if metoprolol to protect the heart during a heart attack.Credit: CNIC/EHJ A drug...
Genomes offer new insights into fig-wasp symbiotic system
Credit: WANG Gang Banyan trees are fig trees that begin their life as an epiphyte. The most noticeable feature of...
RUDN University chemists developed a domino reaction for producing new antitumor drugs
Credit: RUDN University A team of chemists from RUDN University suggested a new reaction to produce organic compounds in one...
New research provides fresh hope for children suffering from rare muscle diseases
Credit: Taylor & Francis Results of an international study published today in Autophagy and led by researchers from Monash University,...
Pulmonary artery thrombosis a complication of radiation therapy
Imaging findings of in situ pulmonary artery thrombosis associated with radiation therapy are different from acute pulmonary emboli and do...
Future ocean conditions could cause significant physical changes in marine mussels
Credit: University of Plymouth The increased temperature and acidification of our oceans over the next century have been argued to...
Droughts are threatening global wetlands: new study
Credit: Luke Mosley University of Adelaide scientists have shown how droughts are threatening the health of wetlands globally. Published in...
A dance of histones silences transposable elements in pluripotent stem cells
Credit: Simon Elsässer So-called transposons are abundant DNA-elements found in every eukaryotic organism as a consequence of their ability to...
