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Make fungi think they’re starving to stop them having sex, say scientists
Newly characterised receptors that repress sexual reproduction in fungi could be targeted to slow down their evolutionCredit: Brown and Goldman...
Study finds inflammatory protein can protect against spread of herpes virus
Credit: Photo by Tabbitha Mosier PHOENIX - Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix have discovered...
Teaching cars to drive with foresight
Researchers at the University of Bonn present self-learning processCredit: © AG Computer Vision der Universität Bonn Good drivers anticipate dangerous...
Looking at the way we walk can help predict cognitive decline
Gait disorders, particularly slowing gait, should be considered a marker of future cognitive decline say scientists in this special supplement...
How to move against the current? One answer is ’tilt’-illating
Credit: Dr. Yan-Peng Liu Going upstream, and against a current, involves a front-first downward tilt and then moving along a...
DOD funds NEOMED research to see if exercise proves to be neuroprotective
Nearly $1 million award supports study that may help change the pathology of Parkinson's disease and inform activities for those...
Study underscores changes in brain structure, function in long-duration space missions
Credit: Sarah Pack A new study demonstrates for the first time that changes in cognitive performance correlate with changes in...
Study tracks evolutionary history of metabolic networks
Credit: Photo illustration by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By analyzing how metabolic enzymes are built and organized, researchers have...
Scientists are developing a way to counter ulcerative colitis
KBFU center for clinical research scientists have participated in the international VARSITY clinical researchCredit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Scientists...
Hubble captures cosmic face
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears...
New findings could improve diagnosis, treatment of depression
Scientists find potential biomarker for major symptom of depression: lack of motivationCredit: Image courtesy of Stephan Lammel, UC Berkeley Researchers...
Signaling waves determine embryonic fates
Rice University lab shows cell-signal pathway dynamics prompt first patterns in embryosCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019)...
An amazingly simple recipe for nanometer-sized corundum
Credit: IFJ PAN, MPI Kofo Almost everyone uses nanometer-sized alumina these days - this mineral, among others, constitutes the skeleton...
Go-ahead for international stellarator project
German-American joint project/Funding by Helmholtz AssociationCredit: IPP, Volker Steger Fusion systems of the stellarator type promise high-performance plasmas in continuous...
3D-printed device finds ‘needle in a haystack’ cancer cells by removing the hay
Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech Finding a handful of cancer cells hiding among billions of blood cells in a patient...
Tungsten suboxide improves the efficiency of platinum in hydrogen production
Credit: KAIST Researchers presented a new strategy for enhancing catalytic activity using tungsten suboxide as a single-atom catalyst (SAC). This...
NIH grants UVA researchers $2.7 million to develop precision treatment for deadly heart plaque
Engineering and medicine team up to develop new diagnostic toolCredit: (Photo/Tom Cogill) The National Institutes of Health has awarded a...
New research finding gives valleytronics a boost
UC Riverside-led team overcomes a stumbling block in this relatively new technologyCredit: Stan Lim, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- An...
Can watching movies detect autism?
Ben-Gurion University researchers indicate that tracking gaze patterns is measurable, reliable and offers great clinical potentialCredit: BEN-GURION U. NEW YORK...October...
An overlooked piece of the solar dynamo puzzle
Researchers demonstrate particular form of magnetic instabilityCredit: NASA / SDO A previously unobserved mechanism is at work in the Sun's...
