Crikey! Massive prehistoric croc emerges from South East Queensland
Credit: The University of Queensland A prehistoric croc measuring more than five metres long - dubbed the 'swamp king' - ruled south eastern Queensland waterways...
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New model reveals previously unrecognized complexity of oceanic earthquake zones
University of Tsukuba researchers have developed a state-of-the-art model, which has revealed major complexity in rupture processes even in simple oceanic faultsCredit: University of Tsukuba...
Corona: How the virus interacts with cells
Credit: SCIGRAPHIX / S. Westermann SARS-CoV-2 infections pose a global threat to human health and a formidable research challenge. One of the most urgent tasks...
Optoelectronic devices that emit warm and cool white light
Credit: © 2020 KAUST The advantages of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), such as their tiny size, low cost and excellent power efficiency, mean they are found...
University of Göttingen awarded new Collaborative Research Centre
DFG funds 'Mathematics of Experiment' with approximately 9 million eurosCredit: CRC 1456 The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be funding a new Collaborative Research Centre...
Hardly any sports — but more physical activity during lockdown
While schools and sports clubs were closed, daily physical activity of children and adolescents increased -- study compares data before and during the lockdown in...
Blood, light and COVID-19
Microvascular health as a key to improve patient careCredit: ©ICFO/Commissió Europea As COVID-19 spread worldwide in early 2020, the avalanche of patients requiring admission into...
New energy conversion layer for biosolar cells
Credit: Felipe Conzuelo A research team from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), together with colleagues from Lisbon, has produced a semi-artificial electrode that could convert light...
CNIO and IRB Barcelona assemble the gamma-tubulin ring complex in vitro for the first time
A collaboration between Jens Lüders' group at IRB Barcelona and Oscar Llorca's at CNIOCredit: CNIO Researchers from the Microtubule Organization lab, headed by Jens Lüders...
Evolution of a killer: How African Salmonella made the leap from gut to bloodstream
Credit: Dr Sian Owen and Dr Rocio Canals University of Liverpool scientists have exploited the combined power of genomics and epidemiology to understand how a...
Excellent research on actinide bonds and on energy-efficient communication technology
Tonya Vitova and Laurent Schmalen, KIT, are awarded ERC Consolidator Grants for their projectsCredit: Markus Breig, KIT Private For their projects, two researchers of Karlsruhe...
NUS researchers develop foldable tent for safe dental care during the pandemic
Credit: National University of Singapore Dental treatments are performed at close proximity to the mouths and noses of the patients, and the procedures are often...
Speeding toward improved hydrogen fuel production
A new nanomaterial helps obtain hydrogen from a liquid energy carrier, in a key step toward a stable and clean fuel sourceCredit: Jeff Urban/Berkeley Lab...
Blood alcohol levels much lower than the legal limit impair hand-eye coordination
Credit: Credit: NASA In previous studies, eye movements and vision were only affected at blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) approaching the legal limit for driving (0.08%...
Scientists develop an efficient way to produce low-cost heatsinks
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS NUST MISIS scientists found a way to reduce the cost of industrial and electronics heatsinks production up to 10 times. Consequently,...
