Shutting the nano-gate
Researchers at Osaka University create voltage-controlled nanopores that can trap particles as they try to pass through, which may lead to single-molecule sensors, along with...
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How India’s rice production can adapt to climate change challenges
Credit: University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. ¬- As the global population grows, the demand for food increases while arable land shrinks. A new University of...
HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory discovers origin of highest-energy cosmic rays in the galaxy
Photon origins tracked to Cygnus OB2 star-forming regionCredit: TeV: Binita Hona (HAWC Collaboration), IR: Hora et. al, Spitzer's Growing Legacy, ASP Conference Series, 2010, P....
How does a crustacean become a crab?
Researchers find five independent carcinizations in both true and false crabs and at least seven instances of decarcinizationCredit: Courtesy of Joanna M. Wolfe. Crabs are...
Paleontology: Microscope helps with dinosaur puzzle
Comparison of fossil bone tissue allows more reliable assignment to individualsCredit: (c) Sauriermuseum Aathal Fossil sites sometimes resemble a living room table on which half...
Whooping cranes steer clear of wind turbines when selecting stopover sites
Proliferation of wind-energy infrastructure across the Great Plains has created obstacles along key migration routes; future developers could place infrastructure outside of migration corridors to...
Hubble sees new atmosphere forming on a rocky exoplanet
Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Hurt (IPAC/Caltech) The planet GJ 1132 b appears to have begun life as a gaseous world with a thick blanket...
Birds learn to avoid flashy, hard-to-catch butterflies and their lookalikes
Credit: Jeff Gage/Florida Museum of Natural History GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The showy colors of some butterflies could advertise their speed and nimbleness, much like a...
New tool to dissect the “undruggable”
Researchers design a new highly-selective tool to study "undruggable" proteins through the sugars they depend onCredit: Kris Snibbe/Harvard University Sugar has been called "evil," "toxic,"...
‘Hunker down’ stress genes boosted in women who live in violent neighborhoods
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The chronic stress of living in neighborhoods with high rates of violence and poverty alters gene...
Deforestation favors an increase in the diversity of antibiotic-resistant soil bacteria
Study analyzed some 800 million DNA sequences extracted from 48 soil samples collected in Pará State and northern Mato Grosso State, both of which are...
A touch of silver
Researchers develop unique Ag-hydrogel composite for soft bioelectronicsCredit: Soft Machines Lab, College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University In the field of robotics, metals offer advantages...
Multiple factors synergistically drive socioeconomic disparities in flu burden
Computational modeling identifies areas where inequities are most severe and overlookedCredit: Flockine, Pixabay A comprehensive modeling study sheds new light on socioeconomic-based mechanisms that drive...
Simultaneous multicontrast OR-PAM from single laser source
Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy innovation enables simultaneous multicontrast imaging with shorter imaging time and improved accuracyCredit: Wang, et al. Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM), a new hybrid...
New insight into how cancer spreads
Heide Ford, Ph.D., associate director of basic research at the CU Cancer Center, published a study in Oncogene investigating how cancer metastasizesCredit: University of Colorado...
