Solving the biochemical conundrum at the dawn of life on Earth
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists Charles Carter, Qi Zhang, and Abigail Knight were awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to answer the age-old question: How...
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Food for thought: New maps reveal how brains are kept nourished
Micro-scale depictions solve century-old puzzle of brain energy use and blood vessel clustersCredit: Xiang Ji and Edmund O'Donnell, UC San Diego Our brains are non-stop...
Scientists use forest color to gauge permafrost depth
Credit: Veronika Döpper Scientists regularly use remote sensing drones and satellites to record how climate change affects permafrost thaw rates -- methods that work well...
A quantum internet is closer to reality, thanks to this switch
New approach could help quantum networks to support more users without losing dataCredit: Purdue University/Navin Lingaraju WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- When quantum computers become more...
Novel drug prevents amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease
In animal models, the new compound modulated a key enzyme, reducing or eliminating production of problematic protein fragments; human clinical trials neededCredit: National Institute of...
Indoors, outdoors, 6 feet apart? Transmission risk of airborne viruses can be quantified
The dynamics of how aerosols travel from one person to another, under different circumstancesCredit: Mj Riches In the 1995 movie "Outbreak," Dustin Hoffman's character realizes,...
Oregon researchers unveil the weaving fractal network of connecting neurons
Quest to design implants to treat macular degeneration leads research team to a discovery that connectivity is completed with a balancing act involving energy costsCredit:...
A Skoltech robot analyzes shoppers’ behavior
Credit: Skoltech Researchers from Skoltech's Intelligent Space Robotics Lab have proposed a novel method for customer behavior analytics and demand distribution based on Radio Frequency...
$5M grant to fund Cincinnati Children’s study of air pollution and mental health
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists at Cincinnati Children's just received a 5-year grant totaling $5.3 million from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences...
Healthcare protections for LGBTQ persons may broaden under Biden administration
Credit: West Virginia University Healthcare sex discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community may be expanded under the Biden Administration, including safeguards against verbal abuse, physical...
NRL physicist earns 2020 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
Credit: Matthew Kerr; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Imagine living in a large city. New York City, Los Angeles, or Washington. One morning you...
A fluid solution to dendrite growth in lithium metal batteries
Credit: Jiandi Wan, UC Davis A new paper from associate professor Jiandi Wan's group in the UC Davis Department of Chemical Engineering, published in Science...
Placebo effect may explain reported benefits of psychedelic microdoses
The largest placebo-controlled trial of psychedelics to date suggests that the reported psychological benefits of microdosing are likely explained by the placebo effectCredit: Self-blinding microdose...
COVID-19 can kill heart muscle cells, interfere with contraction
Study reveals details of how coronavirus infects heart; models of tissue damage may help develop potential therapiesCredit: Lina Greenberg Since early in the pandemic, COVID-19...
Intriguing particles emerge when two photons couple
Researchers exploring the interactions between light particles, photons and matter find that optical microresonators host quasiparticles made by two photons.Credit: University of Bath Scientists at...
