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April 30, 2026

Light driven proton pump in distant relative

Extra-tropical Cyclone Harold caught by NASA’s Terra Satellite

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Southern Pacific...

Ion channel VRAC enhances immune response against viruses

Ion channel VRAC transports the messenger substance cGAMP from cell to cellCredit: Rosa Planells-Cases VRAC/LRRC8 chloride channels do not only...

Should infants be separated from COVID-19-positive mothers?

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 9, 2020--In a new commentary, Alison Stuebe, MD, President of...

Piercing the dark birthplaces of massive stars with Webb

Credit: Credits: NASA, JPL-Caltech, and S.V Ramirez (NExSCI/Caltech) High-mass stars, which are eight or more times the mass of our...

Construction of sintering resistant Pt based catalyst based on ‘composite energy well’ model

Credit: ©Science China Press Nano-catalysts usually have higher catalytic activity than traditional bulk catalysts. And it is widely acknowledged that...

Single-electron pumping in a ZnO single-nanobelt transistor

Credit: ©Science China Press Single electron pumping devices with high efficiency and controllability at room temperature play an essential role...

A new strategy to create 2D magnetic order

Credit: ©Science China Press Grain boundaries, which are consist of periodic arrangement of structural units and generally recognized as a...

FDA approves COVID-19 innovations; Ohio State Medical Center to share nationwide

Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center The Food and Drug Administration has approved solutions created by scientists at...

Torquato research links elastodynamic and electromagnetic wave phenomena

Credit: C. Todd Reichart, Princeton University Department of Chemistry Imagine the advances to predictive modeling if you could infer something...

Development of new photovoltaic commercialization technology

The cause for efficiency degradation in an actual operating environment has been identified, with proposal of material processing method for...

Surgeons develop operation-triage plan to reduce OR volume during COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of the American College of Surgeons article describes 'early and aggressive' actions that were taken to ensure enough hospital...

Large majority of Washington state’s heroin users want to reduce use

Syringe programs helping during COVID-19 crisisCredit: Photo courtesy of the Snohomish syringe services program A new survey of people who...

New paper points out flaw in Rubber Hand Illusion raising tough questions for psychology

Credit: University of Sussex A world-famous psychological experiment used to help explain the brain's understanding of the body, as well...

Technique offers path for biomanufacturing medicines during space flights

Research simulating instrument aboard international space station nurtures E. coli bacteriaCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- An instrument currently...

A novel Li-ion superconductor makes possible an era of safe battery

A fast Li-ion conducting solid electrolyte material comparable to the liquid electrolytes used in typical batteries. An innovative synthesis developed...

Call to action: Traditional, complementary and integrative health COVID-19 support registry

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 9, 2020--The new, global Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Health and...

Bayreuth geneticists discover regulatory mechanism of chromosome inheritance

A previously unknown mechanism regulates the activity of separaseCredit: Images: Olaf Stemmann. In the course of every single cell division,...

USC scientists develop a better redox flow battery

Credit: Source: USC USC scientists have developed a new battery that could solve the electricity storage problem constraining widespread use...

Aha! + Aaaah: Creative insight triggers a neural reward signal