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Due to their low cost and environmental friendliness, aqueous zinc batteries have the potential to play an important role in future energy storage systems for...

Orchid helps insect get a grip

The wild orchid Habenaria radiata’s pure white petals resemble a white egret in flight (hence its common name white egret orchid). H. radiata has been...

Dr. Michael Carson at Sanhalom, Tinian, excavation

Octopus lures from the Mariana Islands found to be oldest in the world

An archaeological study has determined that cowrie-shell artifacts found throughout the Mariana Islands were lures used for hunting octopuses and that the devices, similar versions...

Professor Stuart Cook, a member of winning team CureHeart

Singapore clinician-scientist part of team winning £30M to end early death from killer heart diseases in global British Heart Foundation challenge

SINGAPORE, 29 July 2022 – An international team of researchers—including Professor Stuart Cook, Tanoto Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Duke-NUS Medical School and the...

AI researchers to help Indiana manufacturers reduce energy use

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University researchers are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help small and mid-sized Indiana manufacturers lower their carbon footprints and...

Inmaculada Hernandez, University of California San Diego

Disparities in United States COVID-19 vaccine distribution

When reports showed COVID-19 vaccination rates were lower among racial/ethnic minority groups, most discussions focused on mistrust and misinformation among these populations or their reduced...

Weill Cornell Medicine receives $14 million grant to study emerging technologies for older adults

A Weill Cornell Medicine-led consortium has been awarded a five-year, $14.7 million renewal grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of...

The complex interactions, and their outcomes, between the seaweed (Gracilaria gracilis), isopods (Idotea balthica) and diatoms.

Animal role in algae fertilization identified

Recently, Emma Lavaut and her colleagues from Sorbonne University and Universidad Austral de Chile found that a species of red seaweed, Gracilaria gracilis, uses the...

Science publication first to describe Modifi Bio’s novel approach to fight cancer cells with DNA modification

NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 28, 2022 -- Modifi Biosciences announced today that the journal Science has published a critical study validating the company’s novel oncology...

A new study gives an important understanding of how molecular motor proteins are involved in malaria transmission

Scientists at the University of Nottingham have made a major breakthrough in understanding how malaria parasites divide and transmit the disease, which could be a...

In early COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, health facilities in US metropolitan areas with a high proportion of Black citizens were less likely to administer immunizations – indicating a possible vaccine access barrier

In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Medicine: Credit: Mat Napo, Unsplash (CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) In...

Young idotea viewed through confocal microscope

Idoteas are the sea’s bees

Are sea animals involved in the reproductive cycle of algae, like pollinating insects on dry land? Dispersal of the male gametes, or spermatia, of red...

Two brain regions specialize at recognizing voices

Specialized brain regions recognize vocal cues that don’t involve speech

PITTSBURGH, July 28, 2022 – Specific parts of the brain recognize complex cues in human vocal sounds that do not involve speech, such as crying,...

Researchers take first-ever cryo-EM images of nitrogenase in action

Previously, it has been impossible to capture the high-resolution images of nitrogenase, the only enzyme capable of reducing nitrogen into ammonia, during catalytic action. Now,...

Research Brief: Importance of teaching physician advocacy to medical students