First-ever study shows bumble bees ‘play’
Bumble bees play, according to new research led by Queen Mary University of London published in Animal Behaviour. It is the first time that object...
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Magma on Mars likely
Since 2018, when the NASA InSight Mission deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars, seismologists and geophysicists at ETH Zurich have been listening...
Synthetic energy metabolism enables twin engine for cell
A research team led by Prof. YU Tao from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has proposed a novel synthetic energy...
The brain cells that slow us down when we’re sick
We tend to eat, drink, and move less when we’re feeling under the weather. And we’re not alone—most animals reduce those same three behaviors when...
New insights into biology, origin of deadly stomach and esophageal cancers
The University of Houston is leading a team of cancer researchers and experts in stem cell cloning to identify the origin of two very lethal...
750,000 Euros in federal funding for further development of the successful bird calling app BirdNET
The BirdNET mobile app, one of the most popular and successful apps for recognizing bird calls, was developed at Chemnitz University of Technology. In 2021,...
New evidence of biochemical states and force working in concert
Inside the leading edge of a crawling cell, intricate networks of rod-like actin filaments extend toward the cell membrane at various angles, lengthening protein by...
Scientists have proposed a new material for perovskite solar cells
A new type of material for one of the solar cells was proposed by specialists of the Ural Federal University (UrFU) and the Institute of...
Teaching AI to accurately colorize marine plankton images
Plankton are fundamental to the marine ecosystem and an indispensable means of modern marine ecological management. Since previous studies have shown that zooplankton are insensitive...
Improving the efficiency of nanogenerators that harvest static electricity
Triboelectric energy is the scientific term for static electricity, or the energy that is created when two surfaces rub against each other. Electrons are exchanged...
Annenberg debuts Science and Public Health Knowledge Monitor
PHILADELPHIA – The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania is launching a science and health knowledge monitor comprising quarterly survey reports to...
Diabetes-causing gene can be regulated like a rheostat
Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and Imperial College London have found a switch that regulates the activity of a gene that causes...
HKU engineering researchers develop breakthrough technology to measure rotational motion of cells
Mechanics plays a fundamental role in cell biology. Cells navigate these mechanical forces to explore their environments and sense the behaviour of surrounding living cells....
Crossword puzzles beat computer video games in slowing memory loss
A new study by researchers from Columbia University and Duke University published in the journal NEJM Evidence shows that doing crossword puzzles has an advantage...
NUS researchers devise revolutionary technique to generate hydrogen more efficiently from water
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have made a serendipitous scientific discovery that could potentially revolutionise the way water is...
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