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Ancient Roman roads endure for millennia. UTA is researching why.
UTA civil engineer studying long-lasting Roman, Greek structures for construction secretsCredit: UT Arlington An assistant professor of civil engineering will...
Rapid test for Covid-19 shows improved sensitivity
A CRISPR-based test developed at MIT and the Broad Institute can detect nearly as many cases as the standard Covid-19...
International study will compare different countries’ responses to COVID-19
Project led by researchers from Brazilian and American institutions will collect primary data during the pandemic to create a repository...
Physics: Collision movie with upgraded particle detector at CERN
Physicists at Goethe University lead one of the technical refurbishments of "ALICE" for researching quark-gluon plasmaCredit: Robert Münzer FRANKFURT. For...
A scientific first: How psychedelics bind to key brain cell receptor
This work, published in Cell and led by the UNC-Chapel Hill lab of Bryan L. Roth, MD, PhD, sets the...
Kang finds keys to control the ‘driver of cancer’s aggressiveness’
By isolating the enzymes responsible for recycling a dangerous protein, Princeton's Yibin Kang has identified a promising new target for...
First look at how hallucinogens bind structurally to serotonin receptors
Credit: Kim et al./Cell Although hallucinogenic drugs have been studied for decades, little is known about the underlying mechanisms in...
CNIC researchers discover a mechanism allowing immune cells to regulate obesity
Researchers at the CNIC have discovered a mechanism explaining how macrophages regulate obesityCredit: CNIC Macrophages are immune system cells. They...
Self-imaging of a molecule by its own electrons
Mapping the atomic motion during a molecular vibrationCredit: MBI Berlin One of the long-standing goals of research on the light-induced...
Detaching and uplifting, not bulldozing
Credit: ETH Zurich For a long time, geoscientists have assumed that the Alps were formed when the Adriatic plate from...
Curve at tip of shoes eases movement but may lead to weaker muscles, problems
Researchers say toe springs in shoes may come at a costCredit: Freddy Sichting The toe of most shoes, especially sneakers,...
How 13 billion years of cosmic evolution has ultimately led to intelligent life
New book illustrates up-to-date findings in cosmology and exobiologyCredit: World Scientific In March 1995, Ben Zuckerman and Matt Malkan hosted...
Higher dementia risk in women with prolonged fertility
Credit: Photo by Ragnhild Larsson and Johan Wingborg Women with a longer reproductive period had an elevated risk for dementia...
Climate change threatens Komodo dragons
Credit: Achmad Ariefiandy, Komodo Survival Program. The world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, could be driven to extinction by climate...
Potential target identified for migraine therapy
Credit: Department of Molecular Neuroscience,TMDU Tokyo, Japan -- Migraines affect millions of people worldwide, often lasting days and severely disrupting...
Ecological economy to tackle a climate change-fueled economic model
The economist Joan MartÃnez Alier (ICTA-UAB) reflects on being awarded the Balzan Prize for Environmental ChallengesCredit: ICTA-UAB Economist Joan MartÃnez...
New partnership to build advanced predictive testing for blood cancer multiple myeloma
Credit: Ray Lohan/RCSI Thursday, 17 September 2020: By combining genomic testing and next generation sequencing technology, a new partnership led...
Princeton researchers discover how worms pass down knowledge through the generations
Coleen Murphy found the key to multi-generational pathogen avoidance: a small RNA called P11Credit: Illustration by Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca Moore...
Ocean acidification puts deep-sea coral reefs at risk of collapse
Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Deep-sea coral reefs face challenges as changes to ocean chemistry triggered by climate change...
Discovery of microbes with mixed membranes sheds new light on early evolution of life
Credit: Marianne Baas Changing skins Cells are surrounded by a layer of membrane lipids that protect them from changes in...
