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Radioactive cloud over Europe had civilian background
Isotope measurements on air filters: researchers investigated undeclared nuclear release / Study in "Nature Communications"Credit: Dorian Zok/LUH A mysterious cloud...
National effort joins forces to build a secure smart home
Research focuses on strengthening trust around the household 'Internet of Things'Credit: David Kotz Hanover, N.H. - June 12, 2020 -...
More than ‘Just Another (Chinese) City’
Architectural professor describes urban resilience as a critical study of developmentCredit: Eunice Seng How then does one write the spatial...
All that base
BE-Hive, a new machine learning model predicts which base editor performs best to repair thousands of disease-causing mutationsCredit: Courtesy of...
Fuel walking and cycling with low carbon diets, researchers say
Credit: University of Otago Walking and cycling have many benefits and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but researchers say we...
New biomaterial has potential to repair damaged bone with lower risk of inflammation
Credit: Titan II Scientists at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have developed a new biomaterial that has the...
$2.4 million from ARPA-E for transformational energy technology
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech researchers were recently awarded $2.4 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced...
Heart attack in a dish: a 3D model
Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and Clemson University report that they have developed human cardiac organoids to...
Steering new mobility in the right direction
Matching the speed of technology with the speed of local governmentCredit: Cait McCusker Advances in transportation technology -- e-scooters and...
Artificial intelligence makes blurry faces look more than 60 times sharper
This AI turns even the blurriest photo into realistic computer-generated faces in HDCredit: Rudin lab DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University...
Transient increase in blood pressure promotes some blood vessel growth
Finding has implications for combating tumor growth and diseaseCredit: Daisuke Yoshino, TUAT Blood vessels are the body's transportation system, carrying...
Water bacteria have a green thumb
Microbiologists at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) identify a new type of planktomycete that produces bioactive natural productsCredit:...
Statistical analyses of plant metabolites allow solid testing of plant defense theories
High-throughput analyses of small substances in Nicotiana attenuata reveal that plants re-organize their metabolism to produce highly-specific defense metabolites after...
Silicones may lead to cell death
Credit: Radboud University Silicone molecules from breast implants can initiate processes in human cells that lead to cell death. Researchers...
Unlocking PNA’s superpowers for self-assembling nanostructures
Credit: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with...
Minimizing thermal conductivity of crystalline material with optimal nanostructure
Towards application of materials informatics to development of thermal functional materialsCredit: The University of Tokyo Professor Junichiro Shiomi et al....
Scientists report heavy ion transfer in charged vdW cluster for the first time
Credit: IMP Since the discovery of the double helix form of DNA and the hypothesis of DNA mutation induced by...
Plant cell gatekeepers’ diversity could be key to better crops
Credit: Annamaria De Rosa, CoETP Scientists have shed new light on how the network of gatekeepers that controls the traffic...
Half the earth relatively intact from global human influence
Study presents clear opportunities to conserve what remainsCredit: Jason Riggio/UC Davis Roughly half of Earth's ice-free land remains without significant...
Self-driving cars that recognize free space can better detect objects
What a perception system doesn't see can help it understand what it seesCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--It's important that self-driving...
