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Researchers discovered elusive half-quantum vortices in a superfluid
Credit: Credit: Ella Maru Studio Researchers in Aalto University, Finland, and P.L. Kapitza Institute in Moscow have discovered half-quantum vortices...
New book explores Echinacea, a medicinal plant with roots in Kansas
Credit: Kelly Kindscher LAWRENCE -- In February 1805, during their Corps of Discovery Expedition, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark encountered...
N-acetylcysteine shows early promise in reducing alcohol use in marijuana-dependent teens
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina An over-the-counter antioxidant known as N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is showing early promise at promoting abstinence...
Anti-tumor effect of novel plasma medicine caused by lactate
Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - Physical plasma is one of the four fundamental states of matter, together with solid,...
Cigar warnings: Do teens believe them?
CHAPEL HILL, NC - A majority of adolescents in the United States report current cigar warning labels to be very...
Making (sound) waves in the fight against cancer
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio Each year, thousands of Canadian men with prostate cancer undergo biopsies to help their doctors better understand...
Greater readiness repels cyber threats to manufacturers
Together with the National Emergency Supply Agency and the private sector, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed tailored...
A hardware-based modeling approach for real world collaborative multi-robot tasks
Technological revolution means robots no longer are the song of the future. The Governor of the Bank of England predicts...
Electronic ‘hairy skin’ could give robots a more human sense of touch (video)
Electronic-skin prototypes are stretchy, thin films that can sense temperature, pressure and even monitor blood oxygen or alcohol levels. But...
New approach to liver transplantation: Using a damaged liver to replace a dying liver
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center There's new hope for patients with liver disease who are waiting for a donor liver to...
Gene transfer on the fungal highway
Credit: Berthold et al. 2016 in Scientific Reports For bacteria, soil is difficult terrain, with dry areas and air spaces...
Efforts needed to stop the spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Acinetobacter baumannii is the cause of difficult-to-treat infections in healthcare settings in...
Promotion of nickel (Ni) allergy by anamnestic sensitization
This report provides evidence that the solitary pre-sensitization to LPS is essential for the onset of Ni allergy by shifting...
Carbonaceous chondrites shed light on the origins of life in the universe
The results of the study have been published in the magazine Scientific Reports. The meteorite samples analysed in this study...
Mysteries of Father Christmas ‘solved’ by relativity theory
The mystery of how Father Christmas can deliver presents to 700 million children in one night, fit down the chimney...
DFG announces winners of 2017 Leibniz prizes
The latest recipients of Germany's most prestigious research funding prize have been announced. In Bonn today, the Joint Committee of...
Heating apartment houses sustainably
Credit: Picture: Fraunhofer ISE For the energy transition to be successful, it will also be important to secure heat supply...
Against the tide: A fish adapting quickly to lethal levels of pollution
Credit: M. F. Oleksiak, UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI--Evolution is working hard to rescue some urban...
Newly revealed amino acid function could be used to boost antioxidant levels
Credit: Kobe University A Japanese research team has become the first in the world to discover that 2-aminobutyric acid (2-AB)...
Corn yield modeling towards sustainable agriculture
Credit: Image granted by Laila Puntel. With an innovative modeling approach, researchers set out to examine corn and soybean yields...
