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Excitation of robust materials
Kiel physics team observed extremely fast electronic changes in real time in a special material classCredit: © AG Bauer In...
Towards improved wound healing — Chemical synthesis of a trefoil factor peptide
Milestone for therapeutic development of peptides against gastrointestinal disordersCredit: © Universität Wien The three known human trefoil factor family peptides...
Limitations of super-resolution microscopy overcome
Credit: (Picture: Team Markus Sauer / University of Wuerzburg) With high-resolution microscopy, it is theoretically possible to image cell structures...
Soy and wheat proteins helpful for building aging muscles, but not as potent as animal protein
Credit: Photo credit: Anita Bean On a gram for gram basis, animal proteins are more effective than plant proteins in...
For cleaner air, water, and soil
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski The air around us is still getting more and more polluted. No wonder many scientists...
A chemical cocktail of air pollution in Beijing, China during COVID-19 outbreak
Credit: Hao Li The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreads rapidly around the world, and has limited people's outdoor activities substantially....
On-chip spin-Hall nanograting for simultaneously detecting phase and polarization singularities
Credit: Fu Feng, Guangyuan Si, Changjun Min, Xiaocong Yuan, Michael Somekh Optical singularities are key elements in modern optics and...
Super-fast AI system installed at KIT
One of the most powerful AI computer systems in Europe now supports scientists in solving humanity's problemsCredit: Photo: Simon Raffeiner...
Engineers use electricity to clean up toxic water
Powerful electrochemical process destroys water contaminants, such as pesticidesCredit: Julia Ciarlini Jungers Soares, University of Sydney A team of engineers...
Princeton chemists resolve origin of perovskite instability
The source of thermodynamic instability found in "rattling" behaviorCredit: Figure by Daniel Straus Researchers in the Cava Group at the...
UC Riverside discovers first effective treatment for citrus-destroying disease
New license agreement commercializes innovative, safe technologyCredit: UCR UC Riverside scientists have found the first substance capable of controlling Citrus...
New study sparks fresh call for seagrass preservation
An increase in carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to 5 million cars a year has been caused by the loss of...
Microplastic pollution harms lobster larvae, study finds
Microplastic fibers in the ocean impact larval lobsters at each stage of their developmentCredit: Madelyn Woods Microplastic fiber pollution in...
Nematode has potential to reduce cotton yields by 50 percent
Credit: Kathy Lawrence The reniform nematode is one of the most commonly found pests of cotton, with the ability to...
Group genomics drive aggression in honey bees
Credit: Photo by Manuel A. Giannoni-Guzman CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers often study the genomes of individual organisms to try to...
Running in Tarahumara culture
Long distance runnersCredit: Lieberman, Daniel E. "Running in Tarahumara (Rarámuri) Culture," just published in Current Anthropology (v61, no. 3 (June...
Liquid crystal integrated metalens for versatile color focus
Researchers integrated photo-patterned liquid crystal into a dielectric metasurface to achieve achromatic and chromatic focusing with a single metalensCredit: Image...
A different Chia-PET provides insight into prostate cancer
New research identifies hubs of interaction between short pieces of DNA that help turn genes onCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center...
Multisample technique to analyze cell adhesion
Credit: © 2020 Elham Roshdy An efficient, robust method of examining the interactions between cells uses fluorescent tagging to simultaneously...
Colony-level genetics predict gentle behavior in Puerto Rican honey bees
Credit: ARS-USDA BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, July 6, 2020--Puerto Rico's population of African-European hybrid honey bees (AHB) are famously known for...
