Railway infrastructure susceptible to greater damages from climate change
$2.06 billion/year can be saved by keeping warming to 1.5 °C instead of 3 °C for Chinese railwayCredit: Kai Liu Just half a degree Celsius...
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How human cells and pathogenic shigella engage in battle
Credit: Justin M. Hansen DALLAS - May 21, 2021 - One member of a large protein family that is known to stop the spread of...
Indigenous peoples and local communities, key to achieving biodiversity goals
An international study led by the ICTA-UAB states that recognizing indigenous peoples' and local communities' rights and agency is critical to addressing the current biodiversity...
New mechanism to control tomato ripening discovered
It opens the door to producing tomatoes of a higher commercial and nutritional qualityCredit: UPV An international research group involving the Institute of Molecular and...
Who’s in this ocean? Tracking down species on the go using environmental DNA
Credit: Andre Morandini Sloughed off skin and bodily fluids are things most people would prefer to avoid. But for marine biologist like Cheryl Lewis Ames,...
Robot enables communication between people isolated due to COVID-19 and their relatives
It is designed to facilitate the work of professionals in nursing homes and hospitalsCredit: University of Malaga Researchers of the Integrated Systems Engineering Group of...
Itch insight: Skin itch mechanisms differ on hairless versus hairy skin
Research breakthrough could inform different treatments for chronic skin itch sufferersCredit: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech Chronic skin itching drives more people to the dermatologist than...
Novo Nordisk Prize for research on novel therapeutic approaches for brain diseases
Prof. Dr. Marco Prinz of University of Freiburg Medical Center is honoured for groundbreaking results on the brains immune system / These form the basis...
Scientists created building materials effectively protecting from radiation
Bricks made of new materials are cheaper and more environmentally friendly than analogues made of lead and other materialsCredit: UrFU / Anastasia Farafontova Scientists at...
Making the gray cells happy
Neutrons show a connection between lithium concentrations in the brain and depressionCredit: Wenzel Schuermann / TUM Depressive disorders are among the most frequent illnesses worldwide....
3D visualization of oxytocin and vasopressin circuits with unprecedented resolution
Alterations in these circuits may underlie mental disorders characterized by deficits in social interaction, such as autism, social anxiety and aggression, or schizophrenia.Credit: IN-CSIC-UMH The...
Efforts to treat COVID-19 patients chronicled in UC Health medications data
UCI and UCSD researchers tracked drug usage rates throughout the pandemicCredit: Jonathan Watanabe / UCI Irvine, Calif. - A record of medicine utilization patterns assembled...
Water treatment: Removing hormones with sunlight
KIT researchers developed a new method to remove micropollutants using a photocatalytic membrane and visible lightCredit: Markus Breig, KIT Micropollutants such as steroid hormones contaminate...
New research will unveil the future for natural preservation of food products
With a grant of DKK 10 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, researchers from Aarhus University are aiming to find out how best to use...
NIST, collaborators develop new method to better study microscopic plastics in the ocean
Multistep technique uses small invertebrate to detect, count and characterize nanoplasticsCredit: A. Valsesia et al. via Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), adapted by N. Hanacek/NIST If you've...
