Bite this! Mosquito feeding chamber uses fake skin, real blood
HOUSTON – (Feb. 9, 2023) – If watching animals feast on human blood for 30-plus hours isn’t your idea of fun, don’t worry. The robot...
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WVU researchers estimate cost of ‘injury deaths of despair,’ including suicide, exceeds $1 trillion annually in the U.S.
Self-injury deaths cost the United States more than $1 trillion a year in medical expenses and work and quality of life losses, according to new West...
Sarah Teichmann receives the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2023
9 February 2023 – EMBO and FEBS announce Sarah Teichmann of the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Department of Physics of the University of Cambridge,...
CDC-UNC collaboration yields potential long-term HIV protection
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – For people at high risk of contracting HIV, missing doses of their daily HIV prevention pills can have big consequences. In...
Scientists propose a novel NO2 sensor based on static magnetic field faraday rotation spectroscopy
Low-power FRS nitrogen dioxide sensor basing on ring array permanent was proposed by a research team led by Prof. GAO Xiaoming from Hefei Institutes of Physical...
Scientists reveal the effect of Cu(I) structure on quantum sieving for hydrogen isotope separation
Recently, a research team led by Prof. CHEN Changlun from Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences, studied Cu(I)Cu(II)-BTC, a...
Pusan National University researchers simulate bubble collapse near oscillating walls
Bubble dynamics plays a significant role in mechanics, chemistry, medicine, and biology. Understanding their interactions with the surrounding walls of the container is crucial for...
Sensing water for smarter agriculture
Smart electronic soil sensors could enable farmers to deliver tailored doses of water to their crops, maximizing food production while saving water. KAUST researchers have...
Fighting climate change: ruthenium complexes for carbon dioxide reduction to valuable chemicals
Climate change is a global environmental concern. A major contribution to climate change comes from excessive burning of fossil fuels. They produce carbon dioxide (CO2),...
‘Just as Deadly’: Inside the mind of a female serial killer
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Movies, books and podcasts have popularized the stories of serial killers like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, but they also...
The coastal cod population is not extinct
The rumour that the coastal cod is extinct is not true. Through DNA analyses, researchers at the University of Gothenburg have identified that there are...
New synthetic skin may unlock blood-sucking secrets of mosquitoes
One by one, mosquitoes are captured by a handheld vacuum and released into a clear plastic box. After taking a moment to adjust to their...
Wildlife recording is good for people, as well as for science
Science is not the only beneficiary of nature-based ‘citizen science’ projects – taking part also boosts the wellbeing of participants and their connection to nature,...
Griffith unlocking the secrets to Strep A virulence
Griffith University researchers have unlocked one of the secrets as to why some forms of Strep A are associated with severe invasive infection. Credit: Griffith Univeristy...
Surface-lattice-confinement effect accelerate hydrogen spillover
Hydrogen spillover depicts the dynamic migration of surface adsorbed hydrogen species from hydrogen-rich sites to hydrogen-poor sites. It plays an important role in many H-involving reaction...
