Plant patch enables continuous monitoring for crop diseases
Credit: Qingshan Wei, NC State University Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a patch that plants can "wear" to monitor continuously for plant...
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PcFe-catalyzed radical phosphinoylazidation of alkenes with fast azido transfer step
Credit: Chinese Journal of Catalysis Phosphinoylazidation of alkenes is a direct method to build nitrogen- and phosphorus-containing compounds from feedstock chemicals. Notwithstanding the advances in...
Wolbachia and the paradox of growth regulation
A genetic approach offers new clues to the regulation of Wolbachia proliferation and the effect of over-proliferation on the insect hosts.Credit: IGC 2021 Despite having...
Better gripping with intelligent picking robots
Researchers from Germany and Canada work on new AI methods for picking robotsCredit: Amadeus Bramsiepe, KIT Production, warehouse, shipping - where goods are produced, stored,...
Identified an early neuronal dysfunction in Parkinson’s that could help early diagnosis
Credit: G. Carola et al. Researchers from IDIBELL and the University of Barcelona (UB) have described that neurons derived from Parkinson's patients show impairments in...
Children’s Hospital Colorado one of 7 US children’s hospitals driving asthma research
NIH awards $2.3 million to Colorado to support first long-term pediatric asthma study in emergency department patients experiencing asthma symptomsCredit: Children's Hospital Colorado AURORA, Colo....
McMaster researchers identify how VITT happens
The work will have both diagnostic and therapeutic implicationsCredit: James Smith/McMaster University Hamilton, ON (July 7, 2021) - A McMaster University team of researchers recently...
Beyond 5G: Wireless communications may get a boost from ultra-short collimating metalens
Credit: Takehito Suzuki/ TUAT Screens may be larger on smartphones now, but nearly every other component is designed to be thinner, flatter and tinier than...
Quantum laser turns energy loss into gain?
A new laser that generates quantum particles can recycle lost energy for highly efficient, low threshold laser applicationsCredit: KAIST Scientists at KAIST have fabricated a...
Changes in Earth’s orbit enabled the emergence of complex life
Credit: University of Southampton Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that changes in Earth's orbit may have allowed complex life to emerge and...
Not only humans got talent, dogs got it too!
Is talent in a given field a uniquely human phenomenon?Credit: Photo by Cooper Photo Some exceptionally gifted people have marked human history and culture. Leonardo,...
Engineered protein inspired by nature may help plastic plague
Credit: NINS/IMS Cheap to produce and long to degrade, plastic was once a manufacturing miracle. Now, plastic is an environmental plague, clogging landfills and choking...
DGIST launched ‘Institute of Next-generation Semiconductor convergence Technology (INST)’
Credit: DGIST DGIST opened INST to support the creation and further commercialization of next-generation semiconductor convergence technologies. President Young Kuk, DGIST, as well as other...
Study reveals how our immune system reacts to COVID-19 variants
Credit: Australian Red Cross Lifeblood Australian scientists researching how our immune system responds to COVID-19 have revealed that those infected by early variants in 2020...
The shape of nanoparticles in body fluids may help identify the type of cancer
Credit: Sou Ryuzaki A recent study by scientists from Japanese universities has shown that the shape of cell-derived nanoparticles, known as "extracellular vesicles" (EVs), in...
