Study highlights need to replace ‘ancestry’ in forensics with something more accurate
Credit: Marc Hall, NC State University A new study finds forensics researchers use terms related to ancestry and race in inconsistent ways, and calls for...
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Lean and mean: Building a multifunctional pressure sensor with 3D printing technology
Scientists develop a 3D-printed pressure sensor embedded with a temperature sensor from conductive carbon-based composites.Credit: DGIST The treatment of many medical issues like abnormal gait...
Chemistry discovery could remove micropollutants from environment
Credit: Cornell University RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Army-funded research identified a new chemistry approach that could remove micropollutants from the environment. Micropollutants are biological...
Solar radio signals could be used to monitor melting ice sheets
Credit: Image credit: Sean Peters The sun provides a daunting source of electromagnetic disarray - chaotic, random energy emitted by the massive ball of gas...
LETI’s research will help apply magnetotactic bacteria in oncology
Kamil Gareev, Associate Professor at ETU "LETI," justified the prospects of using magnetotactic bacteria to treat malignant tumors.Credit: Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University Kamil Gareev, Associate...
A star in a distant galaxy blew up in a powerful explosion, solving an astronomical mystery
Giant explosion in space illuminates thousand-year mysteryCredit: NASA/STScI/J. DePasquale; Las Cumbres Observatory Dr. Iair Arcavi, a Tel Aviv University researcher at the Raymond and Beverly...
Jets pose many riddles
Credit: (Image collage: Matthias Kadler (JMU); based on individual images by C. Fromm (JMU), A. Baczko (MPIfR), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF). Black holes...
Obstacles on the racetrack of life
Credit: Sandy Westermann The corona pandemic has ensured that the term "mRNA" is now also known to a large public beyond laboratories and lecture halls....
NTU Singapore converts tamarind shells into an energy source for vehicles
Credit: Credit to NTU Singapore Shells of tamarind, a tropical fruit consumed worldwide, are discarded during food production. As they are bulky, tamarind shells take...
Genome studies: More is not always better
Credit: Arthur Korte What the fruit fly is to zoologists, the thale cress is to botanists. The widespread herb with the botanical name Arabidopsis thaliana...
Compound derived from turmeric essential oil has neuroprotective properties
A: Immunostained images of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), a dopaminergic marker, in midbrain slice cultures co-treated with IFNγ/LPS and ar-turmerone derivatives. (Scale bar: 100 micrometers) Researchers...
UTA researcher publishes study showing economic impacts of combating sea-level rise
Economic impacts of floodingCredit: UT Arlington Sea-level rise threatens to produce more frequent and severe flooding in coastal regions and is expected to cause trillions...
New mechanism of superconductivity discovered in graphene
Placing a 2D Bose-Einstein condensate in the vicinity of a graphene layer confers superconductivity to the materialCredit: Institute for Basic Science Superconductivity is a physical...
UTA developing technology using nanoparticles, ultrasound to detect tiny breast tumors
A new diagnostic tool for small tumors in breastsCredit: UT Arlington A bioengineering professor at The University of Texas at Arlington is developing a technique...
Limiting incident NA for efficient wavefront shaping through thin anisotropic scattering media
Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has succeeded in developing a new optical microscope technology, capable of deeper imaging beyond the biological...
