Chirality memory effect of ferromagnetic domain walls
Credit: Tohoku University Using magnets, a collaborative group have furthered our understanding of chirality. Their research was published in the journal Physical Review Letters on...
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Nanoparticles: The complex rhythm of chemistry
Nanoparticles are often used as catalysts. The chemical reactions on their surface are more complex than previously thought, experiments at TU Wien (Vienna) show.Credit: TU...
Russian wildfires and tropospheric ozone pollution over Northern Tibetan Plateau
Credit: Jinqiang Zhang Atmospheric ozone, which can regulate the amount of incoming ultraviolet radiation on the Earth's surface, is important for the atmospheric environment and...
A tripartite-chromosome E. coli strain allows the chromosome isolation and implantation
The technology for genome installation in model organismsCredit: Rikkyo University The issue of concern was that the Escherichia coli (E. coli) genome, consisting of 4.6...
Type 2 diabetes medication shown to benefit asthma patients
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Type 2 diabetes patients who also have asthma are benefitting from a diabetes medication, typically given to help the pancreas...
Telling up from down: How marine flatworms learn to sense gravity
Zoologists explore the mechanism and development of gravity-sensing ability in marine acoel flatwormsCredit: 2021 Okayama University All living organisms are equipped with sensory organs to...
A novel defense mechanism for SARS-CoV-2 discovered
Credit: Taisho Yamada, et al. Nature Immunology. May 11, 2021 Scientists from Hokkaido University have discovered a novel defensive response to SARS-CoV-2 that involves the...
Biodiversity devastation: Human-driven decline requires millions of years of recovery
Credit: C. Albrecht (JLU) A new study shows that the current rate of biodiversity decline in freshwater ecosystems outcompetes that at the end-Cretaceous extinction that...
Scientists discover gene signature for plaque-eating microglia in Alzheimer’s Disease
Credit: Duke-NUS Medical School SINGAPORE, 21 May 2021 - Alzheimer's Disease is the most common form of dementia and is characterised by the build-up of...
Green light on gold atoms
Credit: Nicolas Antille, www.nicolasantille.com Because individual atoms or molecules are 100 to 1000 times smaller than the wavelength of visible light, it is notoriously difficult...
New nondestructive broadband imager is the next step towards advanced technology
Credit: Tokyo Tech One of the key aspects of academic and industrial research today is non-destructive imaging, a technique in which an object or sample...
First-of-its-kind flower smells like dead insects to imprison ‘coffin flies’
First plant found to deceive pollinators by mimicking decomposing insectsCredit: Credit: T. Rupp, B. Oelschlägel, K. Rabitsch et al. The plant Aristolochia microstoma uses a...
Novel immune checkpoints have applications for cancer, autoimmune disease treatment
UConn researcher Laijun Lai has developed recombinant proteins and antibodies to combat autoimmune diseases and immunosuppression in cancer patientsCredit: UConn Photo The immune system is...
Thin is now in to turn terahertz polarization
Rice lab's discovery of 'magic angle' builds on its ultrathin, highly aligned nanotube filmsCredit: Kono Laboratory/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 20, 2021) - It's always...
Engineering smarter stents
Pitt Engineer Youngjae Chun is part of international group that received $2M to create smarter coronary artery stentsCredit: University of Pittsburgh An estimated two million...
