Detoxifiers from the landfill
Chemical contaminationCredit: Empa The production of chemicals is a cumbersome business. Often, only a small part of what is actually wanted is produced in the...
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The absorption of an individual electrons captured on film
Credit: Javier Marmolejo Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have observed the absorption of a single electron by a levitated droplet with such a magnification...
Passing the COVID test in just five minutes
Researchers at Osaka University develop a new highly sensitive test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that utilizes a fusion of artificial intelligence and nanopore technology which...
New manufacturing technique for flexible electronics
Credit: Victoria Chen/Alwin Daus/Pop Lab Ultrathin, flexible computer circuits have been an engineering goal for years, but technical hurdles have prevented the degree of miniaturization...
‘Unshackled’ palm-destroying beetles could soon invade Australia
Credit: The University of Queensland A destructive pest beetle is edging closer to Australia as biological controls fail, destroying home gardens, plantations and biodiversity as...
Coelacanths may live nearly a century, five times longer than researchers expected
Credit: Laurent Ballesta Once thought to be extinct, lobe-finned coelacanths are enormous fish that live deep in the ocean. Now, researchers reporting in the journal...
Defining the Hund physics landscape of two-orbital systems
Researchers identify exotic metals in unexpected quantum systemsCredit: KAIST Electrons are ubiquitous among atoms, subatomic tokens of energy that can independently change how a system...
UBCO researchers identify best strategy to reduce human-bear conflict
Computer modelling shows reducing attractants most effective in keeping bears awayCredit: UBCO Conservationists have long warned of the dangers associated with bears becoming habituated to...
Study of young chaotic star system reveals planet formation secrets
New observations of young stellar object Elias 2-27 confirm gravitational instabilities and planet-forming disk mass as key to formation of giant planetsCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/T. Paneque-Carreño...
Mutant genes can promote genetic transfer across taxonomic kingdoms
Credit: Kazuki Moriguchi, Hiroshima University Bacteria do not sexually reproduce, but that does not stop them from exchanging genetic information as it evolves and adapts....
Alpine plant spins its own flavonoid wool
Credit: Matthieu Bourdon and Karin Müller Like the movie version of Spider-Man who shoots spider webs from holes in his wrists, a little alpine plant...
Numerical study first to reveal origin of ‘motion of the ocean’ in the straits of Florida
Scientists identify mechanisms of instability responsible for the formation of sub-mesoscale eddiesCredit: Florida Atlantic University/Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Ocean currents sometimes pinch off sections that...
Racism and racial trauma as barriers to breastfeeding
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers African American mothers continue to have the lowest breastfeeding rates, even as the breastfeeding rates have risen in the...
Anna M. Sawka, MD, Ph.D. appointed incoming Editor-in-Chief of Thyroid®
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, inc., publishers We are pleased to announce that Anna M. Sawka, MD, PhD, has been appointed the next Editor-in-Chief of Thyroid®,...
Prototype may diagnose common pregnancy complications by monitoring placental oxygen
NIH researchers pursue innovative method for observing maternal and fetal health during pregnancyCredit: Thien Nguyen, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Fellow, Section on Translational Biophotonics, Eunice Kennedy...
