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Photosynthesis varies greatly across rice cultivars–natural diversity could boost yields
A new study uncovers how 14 diverse rice plants harness fluctuating light to fix carbon dioxide into food--our team found a 117%...
New study presents stretchable and colorless solar cells, using Si microwire composites
Credit: UNIST As solar cells become more transparent, you may now add transparent panels of solar cells on windows of...
Lack of information impedes access to food pantries and programs in Utah
Credit: University of Utah Health Utah residents who have difficulty keeping their families fed could be missing a key ingredient:...
An ultimate one-dimensional electronic channel in hexagonal boron nitride
A zero bandgap boundary discovered in insulating hexagonal boron nitride sheets with could pave the way for new nano-electronic devicesCredit:...
Argonne’s Valerii Vinokur awarded Fritz London Prize
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Valerii Vinokur, a distinguished fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has...
Optimum performance for life science microscopy
Credit: Photo: Pouya Rajaeipour Together with the European Social Fund, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) is...
A flexible brain for AI
Researchers at Osaka Univ. fabricate an energy efficient reconfigurable computing engine that can be rewired to optimize its performance for...
FierceMedTech names Insilico Medicine as one of its ‘Fierce 15’ companies of 2019
Credit: Insilico 9th of March, 2020, 9:00 AM ET --Insilico Medicine today announced that it has been named by FierceMedTech...
Sticky tape: A key ingredient for mapping artifact origins
Credit: RIKEN Researchers at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science in Japan have demonstrated that combining a highly sensitive...
Safety zone saves giant moons from fatal plunge
Credit: Nagoya University Numerical simulations showed that the temperature gradient in the disk of gas around a young gas giant...
More taxpayers’ money for the environment and public benefit
EU Common Agricultural Policy: More than 3,600 researchers call for science to be taken into considerationCredit: Sebastian Lakner The European...
One species to four: New analysis documents new bird diversity in the Pacific
Modern techniques allow international team to parse Pacific Robin populations across South Pacific islands into several distinct species, with major...
Gene regulatory factors enable bacteria to kill rivals and establish symbiosis in a squid
Credit: Nate Follmer, Penn State Two factors that control the expression of a key gene required by luminescent bacteria to...
NASA satellite offers urban carbon dioxide insights
Credit: Dien Wu/University of Utah A new NASA/university study of carbon dioxide emissions for 20 major cities around the world...
Lunar lasers and cosmic crops: NASA funds UArizona space exploration missions
NASA funding will support UArizona teams working on ways to harvest water and produce crops in space.Credit: NASA Many things...
FSU researchers help discover new genetic variants that cause heart disease in infants
Credit: Photo courtesy of P. Bryant Chase. Florida State University researchers working in an international collaboration have identified new genetic...
Could cancer immunotherapy success depend on gut bacteria?
Credit: UTSW DALLAS - March 6, 2020 - Could the response to cancer immunotherapy depend on bacteria that originate in...
Using technology during mealtimes may decrease food intake, study finds
Credit: Sarafina Joy Photography CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Being distracted by technology during mealtimes may decrease the amount of food a...
SARS influencing response to novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic in Singapore
AJR details how Singapore General Hospital responded to the SARS outbreak of 2003, including a thorough list of 43 ground...
University of Arizona professor Gregory Ditzler Wins NSF CAREER Award
Electrical and computer engineering researcher is making sure machine learning technologies like autonomous vehicles and facial recognition stay secure.Credit: University...
