Mild fever helps clear infections faster, new study suggests
It may be better to let a mild fever run its course instead of automatically reaching for medication, new University of Alberta research suggests.Credit: University...
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Designing more useful bacteria
In a step forward for genetic engineering and synthetic biology, researchers have modified a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria to be immune to natural viral infections while...
Building an understanding of quantum turbulence from the ground up
Most people only encounter turbulence as an unpleasant feature of air travel, but it’s also a notoriously complex problem for physicists and engineers. The same...
Magnificent wiring
NEW YORK – For a functioning brain to develop from its embryonic beginnings, so much has to happen and go exactly right with exquisite precision,...
Filling a niche: Neural stem cells help maintain their microenvironment
Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) shed new light on the characteristics of the niche in which neural stem cells reside in the...
Pusan National University researchers develop novel stackable hole injection layer material for solution-processed OLEDs
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays are widely used in cameras, mobile phones, television sets, and other modern day electronic devices. However, the present technology for...
‘Glow-in-the-dark’ proteins could help diagnose viral diseases
Despite recent advancements, many highly sensitive diagnostic tests for viral diseases still require complicated techniques to prepare a sample or interpret a result, making them...
New study from Japan shows SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB.1.5 variant is highly transmissible and infectious
COVID-19 has caused significant global panic after its rapid emergence more than 3 years ago. Although we now have highly effective vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2...
Discovering the unexplored: Synthesis and analysis of a new orthorhombic Sn3O4 polymorph
Oxides of tin (SnxOy) are found in many of modern technologies due to their versatile nature. The multivalent oxidation states of tin—Sn2+ and Sn4+—impart tin...
Propeller advance paves way for quiet, efficient electric aviation
Electrification is seen as having an important role to play in the fossil-free aviation of tomorrow. But electric aviation is battling a trade-off dilemma: the...
Robots can help improve mental wellbeing at work – as long as they look right
Robots can be useful as mental wellbeing coaches in the workplace – but perception of their effectiveness depends in large part on what the robot...
STAR physicists track sequential ‘melting’ of upsilons
UPTON, NY—Scientists using the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) to study some of the hottest matter ever created in a laboratory have published their first data showing...
Researchers discover way to reverse infertility by reducing HDL cholesterol
Houston Methodist scientists reversed infertility in sterile mice by reducing high-circulating cholesterol with a bacterial protein, showing further evidence that links high cholesterol to female...
Princeton Chem, IAS uncover spatial patterns in distribution of galaxies
In late 2021, Salvatore Torquato, on sabbatical from Princeton’s Department of Chemistry, reached across the aisle as it were and invited a young astrophysicist at...
Researchers look to AI for decision-making in extreme situations
Imagine you are a doctor managing the emergency room of a large hospital. You suddenly get a call reporting a mass shooting at a nearby...
