New nanotransistors keep their cool at high voltages
Credit: © EPFL Power converters are the little-known systems that make electricity so magical. They are what allow us to plug in our computers, lamps...
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Study introduces 13 new, threatened species of sparkly moths from Hawaii
One of the islands' oldest animal groups, can these tiny insects survive the next century?Credit: Chris Johns/Florida Museum of Natural History Akito Kawahara was snapping...
Launch of Europe’s largest astronomy network
Credit: M. Claro/ESO. Until now, Europe has had two major collaborative networks for ground-based astronomy, one in the optical wavelength domain and the other in...
Does selfishness evolve? Ask a cannibal
Study confirms evolutionary link between social structure and selfishnessCredit: Volker Rudolf/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 25, 2021) - One of nature's most prolific cannibals could...
Researchers improve plant prime editing efficiency with optimized pegRNA designs
Credit: IGDB Precision genome editing enables the precise modification of DNA in living cells, thus enabling a breadth of opportunities for plant breeding. Prime editors,...
Where do the gender differences in the human pelvis come from?
A comparison with chimpanzees provides surprising insightsCredit: Photo of a female human pelvis and skull of a newborn baby. (© Barbara Fischer) Fossil remains of...
Warm water has overlooked importance for cold-water fish, like salmon and trout
Credit: Jonny Armstrong CORVALLIS, Ore. - Warm river habitats appear to play a larger than expected role supporting the survival of cold-water fish, such as...
Palm oil production can grow without converting rainforests and peatland
Nebraska agronomist: 'Potential impact is huge'Credit: Hendra Sugianto/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Neb., March 25, 2021 -- Palm oil, the most important source of vegetable oil...
Study reveals how long-term infection and inflammation impairs immune response as we age
Credit: Hormaechea-Agulla et al., Cell Stem Cell, 2021, HOUSTON, TX - March 25, 2021 - Humans are born with tens of thousands of hematopoietic stem...
Will COVID-19 vaccines need to be adapted regularly?
Credit: Image: Jó/Charité Influenza vaccines need to be evaluated every year to ensure they remain effective against new influenza viruses. Will the same apply to...
A new way to visualize mountains of biological data
Researchers led by the University of Missouri create a new method for analyzing large amounts of biological data to help scientists draw faster conclusions for...
The case of the cloudy filters: Solving the mystery of the degrading sunlight detectors
Credit: Andrew Jones/LASP More than 150 years ago, the Sun blasted Earth with a massive cloud of hot charged particles. This plasma blob generated a...
Urban agriculture can help, but not solve, city food security problems
Credit: Christine Costello/Penn State While urban agriculture can play a role in supporting food supply chains for many major American cities -- contributing to food...
Coughs create complicated airflows. A new project explores how they spread viruses.
Credit: Capecelatro Research Group, University of Michigan ANN ARBOR--Scientists don't fully understand exactly how our coughs disperse virus particles into the air, but a new...
Plant gene found in insect, shields it from leaf toxins
Credit: Jixing Xia and Zhaojiang Guo Millions of years ago, aphid-like insects called whiteflies incorporated a portion of DNA from plants into their genome. A...
