An atlas of the bumblebee brain
The buff-tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris is one of the most common bumblebee species in Europe. It is not only active in nature as a pollinator...
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COVID-19 patients recover faster with metabolic activator treatment, study shows
Metabolic activators were found to reduce recovery time by as many as 3.5 days in patients with mild-to-moderate Covid-19, according to a Swedish-British study published...
New tools for pandemic prevention research: DNA sequencing from water and leech
In a new scientific investigation headed by the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), water from African and Mongolian waterholes as well...
HKUST scientists develop simple blood test for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease
An international research team led by HKUST has developed a simple but robust blood test from Chinese patient data for early detection and screening of...
Honey, we shrunk the intense XUV laser
The invention of the laser has opened the era of nonlinear optics, which today plays an important role in many scientific, industrial and medical applications....
Striking gold: Synthesizing green gold nanoparticles for cancer therapy with biomolecules
In cancer therapy, the effectiveness of an approach is determined by its ability to preserve the non-cancerous cells. Simply put, the higher the collateral damage,...
USTC realizes the first on-chip valley-dependent quantum interference
Research team, led by academician GUO Guangcan from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), collaborating with...
Transforming the layered ferromagnet F5GT for future spintronics
Record-high electron doping in a layered ferromagnet A RMIT-led international collaboration published this week has achieved record-high electron doping in a layered ferromagnet, causing magnetic...
A novel method for controlling the microstructure and performance of 3D printed human implants
As the average life expectancy of residents increases, there are more and more cases of human bone tissue disease. With the upgrading of treatment methods,...
A template for fast synthesis of nanographenes
New combined synthesis method an exciting breakthrough in the construction of nanographene libraries A group of researchers at Nagoya University, Japan, have developed a new...
Attomolar sensing: Fabrication of surface-enhanced raman scattering substrate
In the 1970s, Fleischmann, the scientist in British, discovered that on noble metallic nanostructure, the Raman scattering of pyridine was enhanced hundreds-hold. Then, the scientists...
Multi-material multi-photon 3D laser micro- and nanoprinting
Multi-photon approaches provide printing rates of up to about ten million voxels per second. And, multi-photon-based 3D approaches structure matter with a resolution approaching sub-micrometer...
Researchers perform metabolomic profiling of individual enlarged lysosomes
The research team led by Prof. XIONG Wei and Prof. CANG Chunlei from Life Science and Medicine of University of Science and Technology of China,...
Underground fiber optic sensors record sounds of COVID lockdown, reopening
In March 2020, daily life in the United States changed in an instant as the country locked down to deal with the initial wave of...
Virome in marine ecosystems reveal remarkable invertebrate RNA virus diversity
Human's understanding of the oceans is still limited. The oceans are rich of various kinds of resource which have great exploitation potential and are far...
