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Rebirth of the Japanese black tea market: challenges for entrepreneurial green tea farmers
Credit: Kanazawa University In Japan, tea farms are found in warm areas, whose northern limit is Ibaraki prefecture, where green...
How certain antibiotic combinations could defeat 'superbugs'
Targeting heteroresistance A sneaky form of antibiotic resistance called "heteroresistance" is more widespread than previously appreciated, scientists at the Emory...
Changing how we predict coral bleaching
Credit: © 2019 Charlotte Young Coral bleaching events may occur more frequently in the Red Sea than previously thought, according...
Dr. Minah Lee receives Wiley Young Researcher Award
Dr. Lee gained attention as an outstanding researcher in materials scienceCredit: KIST On May 22, Dr. Minah Lee from the...
Climate change enhances carbon dioxide flux from lakes
The carbon cycling in lakes is studied using a process-based model that describes the temporal evolution of temperature distribution and...
Researchers find genetic cause for fatal response to Hepatitis A
Credit: Belkaya et al., 2019 Researchers have identified a genetic mutation that caused an 11-year-old girl to suffer a fatal...
Molecular switch for ‘exhaustion mode’ of immune cells discovered
Credit: D. Zehn / Technical University of Munich Tumors and certain viral infections pose a challenge to the human body...
Speeding up the journey towards clean energy through photocatalyst optimization
Researchers from Osaka University link the activity of water splitting catalysts to easy-to-measure parameters to enable rapid screening of clean...
Emerging device by the fusion of IGZO and ferroelectric-HfO2
Next generation memory with low-power, high-speed, and high capacityCredit: Masaharu Kobayashi As a part of JST PRESTO program, Associate professor...
‘Hot spots’ increase efficiency of solar desalination
Rice University engineers boost output of solar desalination system by 50%Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June 18, 2019) --...
Greentown Labs & BASF start circularity challenge to pursue ideas for a circular economy
Six-month accelerator program seeks innovation in the plastics, energy storage and recycling value chains Greentown Labs and BASF jointly launch...
Drug boosts growth in youngsters with most common form of dwarfism, new study finds
Results of the four-year study are summarised online June 18 in the New England Journal of Medicine A groundbreaking drug...
UToledo research links fracking to higher radon levels in Ohio homes
The study also found average radon concentrations among tested homes across the state are higher than safe levels outlined by...
Coral bleaching causes a permanent change in fish life
Repeat coral bleaching caused by rising sea temperatures has resulted in lasting changes to fish communities, according to a new...
GPs should not use inflammatory marker tests to rule out serious conditions, study finds
Blood tests that detect inflammation, known as inflammatory marker tests, are not sensitive enough to rule out serious underlying conditions...
Health policies key factor in hospitalization of seniors
Government policy and infrastructure have a substantial impact on hospitalization of older adults, according to a University of Waterloo study....
Study finds alcohol and tobacco appear frequently in UK reality television
A new study in the Faculty of Public Health's Journal of Public Health finds that tobacco and alcohol usage are...
ELSI researchers use biological evolution to inspire machine learning
Credit: Nicholas Guttenberg As Charles Darwin wrote in at the end of his seminal 1859 book On the Origin of...
Methods in belowground botany
Special issue of Applications in Plant Sciences explores current research and challenges in investigating plant root systemsCredit: Image credit Huskey...
Gender bias continues in recognition of physicians and nurses
Credit: (c) 2019 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 17, 2019--A new study has shown that patients...
