Here’s how insects coax plants into making galls
Credit: David Stern Insects can reprogram plant growth, transforming ordinary plant parts into intricately patterned shelters that are safe havens for feeding and reproduction. These...
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Shade-grown coffee could help save birds, if only people knew about it
Survey finds even birdwatchers are not aware of bird-friendly coffee benefitsCredit: Guillermo Santos Ithaca, NY--The message about the bird-conservation benefits of shade-grown coffee may not...
Choosing Canada’s automotive future
A new expert panel report from the Council of Canadian AcademiesCredit: Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) The future of autonomous vehicles in Canada will be...
‘Fish DJ’ tackles fish hearing
The DJ-turned-researcher used her acoustic experience to design a speaker system for zebrafish larvae and discovered that their hearing is considerably better than originally thought.Credit:...
Using stimuli-responsive biomaterials to understand heart development, disease
Striving for creation of a synthetic platform to mimic natural progression of heart developmentCredit: Zhen Ma WASHINGTON, March 2, 2021 -- Cardiovascular disease remains the...
Soft and comfortable e-textiles that can be used to measure photoplenthysmography
The performances of fiber optoelectronic components were improved by wrapping electrodes with desired shapes around the thread. Fiber photodiodes were integrated into the fabric to...
Rice plant resists arsenic
Chinese-German research team discovers plant variant that largely neutralises the toxinCredit: Sheng-Kai Sun / Nature Communications The agricultural cultivation of the staple food of rice...
Dresden researchers develop new strategy for efficient OLED active matrix displays
Credit: ©Zhongbin Wu In the group of Prof. Karl Leo, physicists, material scientists and engineers are working jointly on the development of novel organic materials...
Cleaner air, less soil pollution: Unintended but beneficial side effect of Clean Air Act
Credit: Yuepeng Pan Removal of pollutants from the air, or atmospheric deposition, is a natural cleaning mechanism. However, the removed toxic matters don't just disappear...
Energy switching decisions could widen social inequalities
Credit: Piqsels (creative commons) New energy tariffs could leave people on bad deals even worse off despite the potential benefits for everyone, research has found....
Development of a multidimensional vibrational circular dichroism system with a quantum cascade laser
A system with a scanning function was applied for peptides containing D-amino acid residuesCredit: Hisako Sato, Ehime University Currently, the roles of free D-amino acids...
Saarbruecken chemists develop variety of industrially important synthetic process
Credit: Saarland University/Oliver Dietze The formation of double bonds between two carbon atoms (C=C) is of central significance in natural organisms. The vast majority of...
University launches isolated power supply chip with new design
Credit: PAN Dongfang Recently, research group led by Professor CHENG Lin from School of Microelectronics, University of science and technology of China has made significant...
SwRI researchers test natural gas foam’s ability to reduce water use in fracking
Engineers created test facility to show natural gas foam can be created on-site to reduce waste of natural resourcesCredit: SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- March 2,...
TPU scientists develop efficient method to create high-strength materials for flexible electronics
Credit: TPU researchers Raul David Rodriguez Contreras and Evgeniya Sheremet TPU researchers jointly with their colleagues from foreign universities have developed a method that allows...
