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World’s strongest bio-material outperforms steel and spider silk
Credit: Credit: Nitesh Mittal, KTH Stockholm At DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III, a team led by Swedish researchers has...
Small birds almost overheat while feeding their young
For decades, researchers have thought that access to food determined the brood size of birds. Now, biologists at Lund University...
PNNL successfully vitrifies three gallons of radioactive tank waste
Credit: PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. -- In a first-of-its-kind demonstration, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have...
Scientists’ new way to identify microscopic worm attacking coffee crops
The plants which produce one of the most popular drinks in the world, coffee, are targeted by a microscopic worm,...
Pay-backs to Africa from the Paris Agreement’s temperature targets
Credit: Shingirai S. Nangombe Africa is arguably one of the regions most vulnerable to adverse impacts of climate change. With...
Tailor-made synthesis of cyclic chemicals by means of enzymes
Credit: Bielefeld University Penicillin-based antibiotics contain a five-membered hydrocarbon cycle, additionally incorporating a sulfur and a nitrogen atom. Nadine Zumbrägel,...
Mutation discovered to protect against Alzheimer’s disease in mice
Credit: © RIKEN National Science Institute Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science have discovered a mutation that can...
Hydrogen peroxide assists sexual reproduction in spruce
Credit: Maria Breygina Plant physiologists from MSU proved for the first time that dangerous reactive oxygen species that are often...
Exercise beats genetics in determining amount of body fat
CLEVELAND, Ohio (May 16, 2018)--With obesity now a global epidemic, there is increased focus on risk factors that contribute to...
EMBO Gold Medal 2018 awarded to Marek Basler and Melina Schuh
Heidelberg, 16 May 2018 - The recipients of the EMBO Gold Medal 2018 are Czech microbiologist Marek Basler and German...
Cell type switch helps colon cancer evade treatment, study suggests
Credit: Schmidt et al., 2018 Researchers in Germany have discovered that colon cancers are often resistant to existing drug treatments...
Hippo waste causes fish kills in Africa’s Mara River
Credit: Christopher Dutton (Millbrook, NY) Ecologists have long known that agricultural and sewage pollution can cause low oxygen conditions and...
Artificial Intelligence improves stroke and dementia diagnosis in most common brain scan
Machine learning has detected one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke, in the most widely used form of...
Understanding drug-resistant gonorrhoea
Can whole genome sequencing illustrate changes in drug susceptibility of gonorrhoea to antimicrobials used for treatment and so help to...
Cannabidiol significantly reduces seizures in patients with severe form of epilepsy
Credit: NYU Langone Health Cannabidiol (CBD), a compound derived from the cannabis plant that does not produce a "high" and...
Soho’s ‘unique’ sexual character should be preserved, say researchers
The unique, cosmopolitan sexual character of London's Soho should be preserved in the face of gentrification, a new study argues....
Blocking two enzymes could make cancer cells mortal
Before cell division, the long strings of the cell's DNA are wrapped tightly into the structures we know as chromosomes....
Researchers take key step toward growing human organs in laboratory
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers have learned that precursor cells for skeletal muscles actually also give rise to neurons, blood vessels,...
Researchers identify gene that helps prevent brain disease
Credit: Ackerman Lab/UC San Diego Scientists know that faulty proteins can cause harmful deposits or "aggregates" in neurological disorders such...
Our brains are obsessed with being social
Our brains are obsessed with being social even when we are not in social situations. A Dartmouth-led study finds that...
