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Salute the venerable ensign wasp, killing cockroaches for 25 million years
Credit: George Poinar Jr., Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - An Oregon State University study has identified four new species...
Copycat plant booster improves on nature
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Boubacar A. Kountche and Jian You Wang A molecule that can mimic the function of zaxinone,...
Oligomeric materials to enhance water splitting
Credit: Marcos Gil-Sepulcre (ICIQ) Researchers from the Llobet group have developed a new molecular material made out of oligomers and...
Snakes disembowel and feed on the organs of living toads in a first for science
Credit: Winai Suthanthangjai While the majority of snakes would normally swallow their prey whole, the Small-banded Kukri Snake seems to...
New extreme ultraviolet facility opens for use
A new machine to probe the ultrafast motion of matter is the first of its kindCredit: © 2020 Springer Nature...
Fungal compound inhibits important group of proteins
Zebrafish embryos elucidate unknown effect for cercosporamideCredit: Jelmer Hoeksma, copyright Hubrecht Institute Researchers in the group of Jeroen den Hertog,...
AI technology can predict vanadium flow battery performance and cost
Credit: LI Tianyu Vanadium flow batteries (VFBs) are promising for stationary large-scale energy storage due to their high safety, long...
MarrowQuant: A new digital-pathology tool
Credit: Olaia Naveiras (EPFL) The bone marrow is the soft tissue inside our bones. Its main role is to produce...
Discovery of large family of two-dimensional ferroelectric metals
Credit: ©Science China Press It is usually believed that ferroelectricity can appear in insulating or semiconducting materials rather than in...
AI learns to trace neuronal pathways
Credit: Mitra lab/CSHL, 2020 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) scientists have taught computers to recognize a neuron in microscope images...
Recording thousands of nerve cell impulses at high resolution
Credit: ETH Zurich / Xinyue Yuan For over 15 years, ETH Professor Andreas Hierlemann and his group have been developing...
Helium, a little atom for big physics
Credit: Authors Helium atom precision measurements and calculations have a history of nearly a century. In the 1960s, theorists discovered...
Bird brains are surprisingly complex
Innovative microscopy method reveals unexpected similarities between mammals and birdsCredit: Copyright: HHU Düsseldorf / Herold et al. Some birds can...
Stable supramolecular structure system to identify activity origin of CO2 electroreduction
Credit: Authors CO2 electroreduction reaction driven by renewable electricity is an effective way to reduce the concentration of CO2 in...
Lipids, lysosomes, and autophagy: The keys to preventing kidney injury
A team of researchers led by Osaka University unravel a tangle of pathways involving calcium, lipids, and the degradation of...
Inside mitochondria and their fascinating genome
Credit: EPFL / Alain Herzog Mitochondria are present in all eukaryotic cells: in our cells, in mammalian cells, in the...
Scientists explored optimal shapes of thermal energy storages
Scientists have studied a correlation between the shape of thermal energy storages and their efficiencyCredit: Karsten Würth, Unsplash Scientists from...
Surplus sugar helps whiteflies detoxify plant defenses
This pest insect uses sugar from its food to prevent the activation of the mustard oil bomb in cruciferous plantsCredit:...
Dentists from RUDN University presented a new classification of root canal shape changes
Credit: RUDN University Individual characteristics of the shape and cross-section of the root canal are one of the main issues...
COVID-19: Saliva tests could detect silent carriers
Credit: Isao Yokota et al., Clinical Infectious Diseases, September 25, 2020 Testing self-collected saliva samples could offer an easy and...
