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Fossil reveals evidence of 200-million-year-old ‘squid’ attack
Credit: Lloyd Russell, University of Plymouth Scientists have discovered the world's oldest known example of a squid-like creature attacking its...
Gas nanomedicine: An emerging cutting-edge field
Credit: ©Science China Press Cancer is deadly, but available cancer treatment methods are quite limited. The use of therapeutic gas...
Soil pores hold the key to stability for desert soils
Credit: Judith Turk Soils in deserts are very different from those found anywhere else. Extreme temperatures, little water and limited...
Investigating the dynamics of stability
Credit: Image by Mark Lopez, Argonne National Laboratory. Scientists discover dynamics of electrochemical interfaces at the atomic scale. The quest...
New imaging method gives insights into how bacteria move and exchange genetic information
Credit: University of Exeter Scientists have made a pivotal breakthrough in advancing our understanding of how bacteria move and perform...
Programming with the light switch
Credit: Illustration: Michal Rössler In the development of autonomous systems and materials, self-assembling molecular structures controlled by chemical reaction networks...
Bat ‘super immunity’ may explain how bats carry coronaviruses — USask study
Bat-virus adaptation may explain species spillover, researchers sayCredit: Dave Stobbe for the University of Saskatchewan. A University of Saskatchewan (USask)...
NSF CAREER award to study accelerated aging of insulation used in power systems
Credit: Virginia Tech It is expected that by 2030, 80 percent of all electric power will flow through power electronics...
Minimum energy requirements for microbial communities to live predicted
Credit: University of Warwick A microbial community is a complex, dynamic system composed of hundreds of species and their interactions,...
Recipients of 2020 Gruber Cosmology Prize announced
Lars Hernquist and Volker Springel are honoured for their defining contributions to cosmological simulationsCredit: IAU The Gruber Cosmology Prize, which...
Free and open-source hardware enables more bang for your buck in research funding
Credit: Karankumar C. Dhankani, Joshua M. Pearce FOSH is rapidly gaining momentum as part of a global "open design movement",...
A study by TalTech geneticists revealed new potential causes of female infertility
Credit: TalTech Over the last six years a group of Estonian geneticists led by Associate Professor Agne Velthut-Meikas and a...
New genetic markers of type 2 diabetes identified in East Asians
First-in-kind study co-authored by UMass Amherst epidemiologist advances knowledge of diabetes' biological rootsCredit: UMass Amherst In the largest study of...
Sustainable recovery of nutrients from urine
Columbia engineers use a membrane-based technique and a closed-loop system to recover ammonia as a valuable fertilizer product while simultaneously...
New trial platform could accelerate finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease
Scientists describe the concept of a multi-arm, multi-stage (MAMS) trial for evaluating potential therapies for Parkinson's diseaseCredit: Cure Parkinson's Trust...
USTC has made significant progress in many-body simulation based on Rydberg atoms
Credit: Dong-Sheng Ding, Hannes Busche, Bao-Sen Shi, Guang-Can Guo, and Charles S. Adams The Group of Academician GUO Guangcan has...
Sewage poses potential COVID-19 transmission risk, experts warn
Credit: University of Stirling Environmental biologists at the University of Stirling have warned that the potential spread of COVID-19 via...
Experimental study of how ‘metallic glass’ forms challenges paradigm in glass research
Credit: Gallino/Busch Unless you happen to be a materials scientist, which most of us after all are not, the term...
Focused ultrasound opening brain to previously impossible treatments
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications University of Virginia researchers are pioneering the use of focused ultrasound to defy the...
Dual personalities visualized for shape-shifting molecule
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Australian and US researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the structure of...
