The roly-poly gold rush
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2023 – The woodlouse goes by many names: roly-poly, pill bug, potato bug, tomato bug, butchy boy, cheesy bob, and chiggy pig,...
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Stopping storms from creating dangerous urban geysers
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2023 – During intense rainstorms, residents of urban areas rely on stormwater sewers to keep streets and homes from flooding. But in...
Understanding a community’s shared vision for public health is key to supporting change
Philadelphia, April 11, 2023 – The prevalence of obesity in rural communities goes beyond food choice and geography to include issues such as class, culture...
Family tree of ‘boring’ butterflies reveals they’re anything but
Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the ground and fly off into...
Femtosecond lasers with GHz bursts in MHz burst (BiBurst) enhances ablation speed of silicon by a factor of 23
Scientists working on laser application at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) have employed a new technique using GHz bursts of femtosecond laser pulses...
Correlate phonon modes with ion transport via isotope substitution
This study is led by Prof. Shou-Hang Bo (Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and Prof. Jun Cheng...
Tailings dams degrade the upstream variety and abundance of fish species
Streams are complex habitats that can be affected by changes further upstream or downstream. Even small dams and reservoirs can modify significant ecological processes, such...
Improving gene therapy with tiny bubbles
CLEVELAND—Beyond vaccines, mRNA offers immense potential to fight disease, but targeting the genetic material to specific diseased cells is challenging—requiring a new method. Credit: Case Western...
Merons and antimerons
Sliding and twisting of van der Waals layers can produce fascinating physical phenomena. In a recent publication in Nature Communications, Daniel Bennett, Eric Bousquet and...
New airway cell type holds promise for respiratory diseases
During specialization, the individual cells form different airway cell types, a process that can include a period of uncertainty, although they are seemingly coded to...
Mutant strains of Salmonella make infection more aggressive in commercial poultry, study shows
In Brazil, a group of researchers supported by FAPESP created mutant forms of Salmonella to understand the mechanisms that favor colonization of the intestinal tract of chickens...
New findings that map the universe’s cosmic growth support Einstein’s theory of gravity
For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos.Credit: ACT Collaboration For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the...
Over 60 percent of Saudi Arabian respondents never took a colorectal cancer test | BGI Insight
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most diagnosed cancer among males and third among females in Saudi Arabia, with up to two-thirds diagnosed at an advanced...
Male yellow crazy ants are real-life chimeras
The yellow crazy ant, or Anoplolepis gracilipes, has the infamous distinction of being among the worst invasive species in the world. However, this is not...
Trees in areas prone to hurricanes have strong ability to survive even after severe damage
As their plane flew low on its approach to land at the airport on the island of Dominica, researchers from Clemson and Harvard universities looked...
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