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The art of making tiny holes
How can you perforate an atomic layer of material and leave the one underneath intact? Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna)...
New studies show how to save parasites and why it’s important
Credit: Emily Wood Parasites have a public relations problem. Unlike the many charismatic mammals, fishes and birds that receive our...
New printing process advances 3D capabilities
Technology aims to improve quality of products used in business, industry and at homeCredit: David Kazmer LOWELL, Mass. - More...
Scientists discover new class of semiconducting entropy-stabilized materials
Credit: Logan Williams, Emmanouil Kioupakis, and Zihao Deng, Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Michigan Semiconductors are important...
To distinguish contexts, animals think probabilistically, study suggests
Credit: Image by Peter Goldberg Among the many things rodents have taught neuroscientists is that in a region called the...
DNA metabarcoding detects ecological stress within freshwater species
In a new study, German scientists confirm that responses below species level can be inferred with DNA metabarcodinCredit: Vera Zizka...
When Dirac meets frustrated magnetism
Credit: MPI of Microstructure Physics The fields of condensed matter physics and material science are intimately linked because new physics...
Satellite survey shows California’s sinking coastal hotspots
Credit: Source: USGS NED. A majority of the world population lives on low lying lands near the sea, some of...
Researchers at IRB Barcelona get an ERC grant to develop new drugs against fibrosis
Credit: IRB Barcelona The team led by Manuel Serrano, ICREA researcher and Head of the Cellular Plasticity and Disease Lab...
Inbreeding detrimental for survival
House sparrows on islands in northern Norway help researchers understand fundamental biological issues.Credit: Photo: Henrik Jensen, NTNU Biologists have long...
HHMI awards 45 Gilliam fellowships to support diversity in science
Credit: HHMI Over the last 16 years, a growing community of doctoral students and their advisers has knit together, bound...
A new chemical analysis upends conventional explanation for global cooling
Researchers say cooling 13,000 years ago involved a major volcanic eruptionCredit: Nan Sun, University of Houston Scientists have long known...
Tiny plants crucial for sustaining dwindling water supplies: Global analysis
Credit: David Eldridge A global meta-analysis led by UNSW scientists shows tiny organisms that cover desert soils - so-called biocrusts...
Differences between discs of active and non-active galaxies detected for the first time
Credit: Gabriel Pérez DÃaz, SMM (IAC). This study, just accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters, is the first...
Huntsman Cancer Institute illuminates potential new treatment in acute myeloid leukemia
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute Tyrosine kinases are protein enzymes that have many functions within cells, including cell signaling, growth, and...
NASA sun data helps new model predict big solar flares
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, scientists have developed a new...
Way, shape and form: Synthesis conditions define the nanostructure of manganese dioxide
Credit: Keigo Kamata, Tokyo Institute of Technology Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology explore a novel and simplistic method to...
Surprising number of exoplanets could host life
New insight to inform future NASA missionsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Our solar system has one habitable planet -- Earth. A new study...
Nanoreactor strategy generates superior supported bimetallic catalysts
Credit: TIAN Zhengbin Supported bimetallic catalysts are an important class of catalysts in heterogeneous catalysis. They can be applied in...
Gale & Ira Drukier Prize in Children’s Health Research awarded to two leading pediatricians
Drs. Sallie Permar and Stephen Patrick Honored for Their Pioneering Research Advancing Children's HealthCredit: Stephanie Diani Dr. Sallie Permar, a...
