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Improving neural implants
Pitt bioengineer Xinyan Tracy Cui receives $2.37M NIH award to deliver improved neural recording technologyCredit: University of Pittsburgh/Swanson School of...
Scientists ask: How can liquid organelles in cells coexist without merging?
Physicists use model systems to explore the forces that may be at playCredit: Credit: Ibraheem Alshareedah / Priya Banerjee Laboratory...
Johns Hopkins researchers discover material that could someday power quantum computer
Credit: Yufan Li Quantum computers with the ability to perform complex calculations, encrypt data more securely and more quickly predict...
Carnivorous plant study captures universal rules of leaf making
Credit: Karen Lee, Yohei Koide, John Fozard and Claire Bushell. Leaves display a remarkable range of forms from flat sheets...
Scientists at the MDI biological laboratory are decoding the genetic mechanisms of aging
Discoveries could one day lead to new drugs to prolong healthy human lifespanCredit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE --...
Right whale mothers ‘whisper’ to their calves to avoid attracting predators
Credit: Christin Khan, NOAA Fisheries DURHAM, N.C. -- As new moms, North Atlantic right whales tone down their underwater vocalizations...
Study identifies 5 patterns of gun ownership by motivation, practices, other features
Credit: University of California Regents A study of 429 firearm owners who answered the 2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey...
New research sheds light on the ages of lunar ice deposits
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon's south...
Explained: The lifetime of an evaporating liquid drop
Credit: University of Warwick Liquids evaporating into vapour is a daily occurrence, and yet the time it takes a liquid...
Aerial photographs shed light on Mont Blanc ice loss
100 years of climate change visible in the AlpsCredit: Walter Mittelholzer, ETH-Bibliothek Zürich & Dr Kieran Baxter, University of Dundee...
Electrochemistry to benefit photonics: Nanotubes can control laser pulses
Credit: Skoltech An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Laboratory of Nanomaterials at the Skoltech Center for...
With AGS Cocare: Help, AGA expands reach of seminal delirium prevention program
Credit: (C) 2019, American Geriatrics Society A seminal program for preventing delirium (the medical term for abrupt, rapid-onset confusion or...
Has global warming stopped? The tap of incoming energy cannot be turned off
Credit: Jing Xu As a result of industrialization, the carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has increased continuously over the...
Mutation of the co-chaperone Tsc1 in bladder cancer diminishes Hsp90 acetylation and reduces drug sensitivity and selectivity
The cover for issue 56 of Oncotarget features Figure 5, 'HDAC inhibition synergizes with Hsp90 inhibition to induce apoptosis in...
CABI scientists track wheat aphids and their natural enemies for better pest management in Pakistan
For the first time, CABI scientists have studied the distribution and population dynamics of wheat aphids and their natural enemies...
Researchers develop intelligent, shape-morphing, self-healing material for soft robotics
Credit: Soft Machines Lab, Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH-- Advances in the fields of soft robotics, wearable technologies, and human/machine interfaces...
‘Tricked’ bacteria open new pathways to antimicrobial treatments
Credit: University of Leeds Scientists have developed a new technique to trick bacteria into revealing hundreds of holes in their...
What happens as solid-state batteries begin to fail?
Researchers say $1 million project will improve understanding, optimizationCredit: University of Houston Solid-state lithium batteries have generated interest because they...
Enhancing memory network via brain stimulation
Study shows repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation is robust and reproducibleCredit: Michael Freedberg Magnetic stimulation of the posterior parietal cortex increases...
Milky Way raids intergalactic ‘bank accounts,’ Hubble study finds
Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI) Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow...
