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The wildlife trade encompasses all major branches of the biological tree of life
Credit: Marco Antonio de Freitas. Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of...
Exotic properties of helium-methane compounds inside giant planets
Credit: ©Science China Press National Key R&D Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, The Fundamental Research Funds...
Cichlid fish loves exaggerated shells
Scientists dissect the complex choices of animalsCredit: MPI of Animal Behavior/ Jordan Lab What is important when you choose a...
Synthesis of prebiotic peptides gives clues to the origin of life on Earth
A paper by Kazan Federal University appeared in Amino AcidsCredit: Kazan Federal University Coordination Compounds Lab of Kazan Federal University...
Performing optical logic operations by a diffractive neural network
Credit: by Chao Qian, Xiao Lin, Xiaobin Lin, Jian Xu, Yang Sun, Erping Li, Baile Zhang, and Hongsheng Chen Optical...
Smart machine maintenance: New AI system also detects unknown faults
Credit: Oliver Dietze A new maintenance system is helping to make sensors smart. A research team led by Professor Andreas...
Towards visible-wavelength passively mode-locked lasers in all-fibre format
Credit: by Jinhai Zou, Chuchu Dong, Hongjian Wang, Tuanjie Du, and Zhengqian Luo Mode-locked fibre lasers generating ultrashort pulses with...
Sugar turns brown algae into good carbon stores
Only highly specialized bacteria can carry out the degradation of brown algae with the help of more than hundred enzymesCredit:...
Chirality-assisted lateral momentum transfer for bidirectional enantioselective separation
Credit: by Cheng-Wei Qiu Light carrying photon momentum can push and pull microparticles through momentum exchange. This momentum exchange progress...
Directed protein evolution with CRISPR-Cas9
New area of application for gene scissors: Optimized proteins for biomedical researchCredit: MPI of Neurobiology / Arne Fabritius "Directed evolution"...
Evidence shows cloth masks may help against COVID-19
Particularly those with several layers of cotton clothCredit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (May 22, 2020) - The evidence shows that...
High-security identification that cannot be counterfeited
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba create millimeter-size chips with unique color patterns that cannot be forgedCredit: University of Tsukuba...
COVID-19 should be treated as a thrombotic disease, Brazilian pulmonologist argues
Dr. Elnara Negri, who works in São Paulo City at the largest hospital complex in Latin America, advocates the use...
Next-gen laser facilities look to usher in new era of relativistic plasmas research
Laser beams with power up to 10 petawatts will create plasmas with energy levels to be studied with quantum electrodynamics,...
Humans have beneficial bacteria uniquely adapted for life in our noses
Credit: De Boeck et al. / Cell Reports Beneficial strains of bacteria residing in our guts, genital tracts, and skin...
Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle
Credit: Chase Stone The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximised...
Critical transition theory shows flickering in heart before atrial fibrillation
Newly proposed way to define cardiac state looks to provide a warning sign of the disease, with implications for wearable...
Controlling superconductors with light
New theoretical study shows how to use Terahertz light to peep in the secrets of two-dimensional superconductorsCredit: IBS A researcher...
Warwick scientists discover how cells respond to fasting
Credit: University of Warwick The UK has the highest level of obesity in Europe, in fact it's estimated half the...
New molecules for innovative high-tech materials
German Research Foundation funds professor Peter Roesky's work on sandwich compounds within a Reinhart Koselleck projectCredit: Graphics: KIT Thanks to...
