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....
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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...
A new spintronic phenomenon: Chiral-spin rotation found in non-collinear antiferromagnet
Credit: S.Fukami Researchers at Tohoku University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have discovered a new spintronic phenomenon - a persistent rotation of chiral-spin...
Integrated cyber attack analysis platform “NIRVANA Kai” supports IPv6
Succeeded in real-time visualization of packets flowing in the vast address space of IPv6Credit: ©National Institute of Information and Communications Technology - Integrated cyber attack...
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...
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...
