Florida Python Hunters May Have a New Tool Thanks to Optics Research at UCF
Special small, mobile cameras help detect more snakes and could lead to an automated python tracker. Just as the governor announced the start of python...
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How do plants balance microbial friends and foes?
Plants are constantly exposed to microbes: pathogens that cause disease, commensals that cause no harm or benefit, and mutualists that promote plant growth or help...
Kurome Therapeutics closes $15 million Series A financing
Funding to develop targeted kinase inhibitors for treatment of hematopoietic cancers Kurome Therapeutics, a preclinical stage company dedicated to developing novel therapies that target adaptive...
Printing flexible wearable electronics for smart device applications
Using conventional printing techniques to print flexible supercapacitors is economical, scalable WASHINGTON, June 10, 2021 -- The demand for flexible wearable electronics has spiked with...
How butterflies make transparent wings: MBL scientists see the invisible
WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Many animals have evolved camouflage tactics for self-defense, but some butterflies and moths have taken it even further: They've developed transparent...
Children cannot understand sadness and happiness in people wearing facemasks
The study published in Frontiers in Psychology shows that children aged from 3 to 5 years old are able to understand the emotions hidden under...
Like night and day: Animal studies may not translate to humans without time considerations
In a recent survey of published animal studies, researchers at West Virginia University found disregarding the animals' circadian rhythms can hamper reproducibility, reliability and validity....
Pinpointing how cancer cells turn aggressive
Penn scientists have developed a new method for tracing the lineage and gene expression patterns of metastatic cancer at the single-cell level It's often cancer's...
More sustainable mortars and concrete with optimal thermal and mechanical efficiency
The University of the Basque Country-UPV/EHU is researching mortars and concrete manufactured from industrial by-products, within the circular economy approach The consumption of raw materials...
Binding of a second CO molecule observed
Through the biological fixation of the element nitrogen by the enzyme nitrogenase, organisms gain access to molecular nitrogen (N2) in the Earth's atmosphere, which is...
Scientists uncover the mysteries of how viruses evolve
Scientists uncover the mysteries of how viruses evolve The team say their findings have implications for the treatment of viruses in future. Researchers from the...
How cells measure themselves
Ever since scientists discovered cells under the microscope more than 350 years ago, they have noted that each type of cell has a characteristic size....
Combating maritime litter
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon categorizes innovative solutions for fighting pollution in the oceans Plastic bottles drifting in the sea; bags in the stomachs of turtles; Covid-19 masks...
Researchers turned transparent calcite into artificial gold
Breakthrough in metamaterials: for the first time in the world, researchers at Tel Aviv University developed an innovative nanotechnology that transforms a transparent calcite nanoparticle...
Four collaborative research centres at Goethe University receiving funding
German Research Foundation funds new CRC Transregio 326 „Geometry and arithmetic of uniformized structures" - CRC 1039 on medical signal path research enters third funding...
