Researchers explore relationship between maternal microbiota and neonatal antibody response
Credit: Andrew Mann, Virginia Tech. A healthy system of gut bacteria, or microbiota, is crucial to health: Gut bacteria not only aid with digestion, but...
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Color blindness-correcting contact lenses
Credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c09657 Imagine seeing the world in muted shades -- gray sky, gray grass. Some people with color blindness...
Evolution drives autism and other conditions to occur much more frequently in boys
Genetic researchers see greater role in health researchCredit: McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, March 3, 2021 -- Evolutionary forces drive a glaring gender imbalance in the...
I-Seed project for intelligent biodegradable soft robots mimicking plant seeds behaviour
The project will develop intelligent seeds able to monitor environmental parameters. Coordinated by IIT's researcher Barbara Mazzolai, it involves other 5 partners in Europe. The...
Prehistoric killing machine exposed
Previously thought of as heavy, slow and sluggish, the 260-million-year-old predator, Anteosaurus, was a ferocious hunter-killerCredit: Alex Bernardini (@SimplexPaleo) Judging by its massive, bone-crushing teeth,...
Humans drive most of the ups and downs in freshwater storage at Earth’s surface
Credit: Cooley et al. 2021, Nature Water levels in the world's ponds, lakes and human-managed reservoirs rise and fall from season to season. But until...
UNF professor awarded US patent to fight cancer tumors using synthetic curcumin analogs
Credit: University of North Florida Dr. Kenneth Laali, University of North Florida Presidential Professor of Chemistry, has recently been awarded a US patent for his...
New form of symbiosis discovered
Energy-providing bacterial endosymbiont enables its unicellular eukaryotic host to breathe nitrate, demonstrating that unicellular eukaryotes may acquire endosymbionts to complement or replace functions of their...
University students with special educational needs highlight the benefits of e-assessment
More than 250 participants in the study recognized the specific benefits provided by e-authentication but expressed concerns about the risk of technical problemsCredit: Sergey Zolkin,...
Key steps discovered in production of critical immune cell
Credit: Courtesy of WEHI WEHI researchers have uncovered a process cells use to fight off infection and cancer that could pave the way for precision...
Researchers discover SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors
Pharmacists at the University of Bonn: Substances block key step in coronavirus replicationCredit: © V. Namasivayam/Pharmazeutisches Institut/Uni Bonn A research team of pharmacists at the...
‘Target identified’: teaching a machine how to identify imperfections in 2D materials
Applying machine learning to automated characterisation of atomically-thin materialsCredit: FLEET Just as James Cameron's Terminator-800 was able to discriminate between "clothes, boots, and a motorcycle",...
Heat-free optical switch would enable optical quantum computing chips
Credit: Lucas Schweickert In a potential boost for quantum computing and communication, a European research collaboration reported a new method of controlling and manipulating single...
Common dolphin populations at risk
Trans-Tasman study calls for greater collaborationCredit: Dr Kerstin Bilgmann (Macquarie & Flinders University) While consumers look out for the Dolphin Safe mark on seafood purchases,...
Molybdenum disulfide ushers in era of post-silicon photonics
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers of the Center for Photonics and Two-Dimensional Materials at MIPT, together with their colleagues from Spain, Great Britain, Sweden,...
