Characterized drugs show unexpected effects
Known and yet unexpected: many active substances influence the cholesterol homeostasis and thereby possibly a SARS-CoV-2 infectionCredit: MPI of Molecular Physiology When Alexander Flemming discovered...
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Defect engineering assisting in high-level anion doping towards fast charge transfer kinetic
Credit: ©Science China Press The research team of Prof. Xiaobo Ji and associate Prof. Guoqiang Zou has proposed an ingenious oxygen vacancy (OV)-engineering strategy to...
New weapons testing capability produces richer data, saves time, cost
'Superfuge' test combines multiple environments on a full-scale weapons systemCredit: Photo by Randy Montoya/Sandia National Laboratories. LIVERMORE, Calif. -- A team of Sandia National Laboratories...
New insight on the reproductive evolution of land plants
International consortium offers novel insight into the reproductive evolution of land plants, in new study published in Nature PlantsCredit: Mette Haagen Marcussen , DTU Bioengineering...
Visualizing a city’s energy use
Pitt civil engineers use Pittsburgh to create energy usage model in commercial buildingsCredit: Bilec Built Environment and Sustainable Engineering Group The building sector in the...
DeepMind and EMBL release the most complete database of predicted 3D structures of human proteins
Partners use AlphaFold, the AI system recognised last year as a solution to the protein structure prediction problem, to release more than 350,000 protein structure...
Collaborative digitalization of supply chain ecosystem is overdue for some industries
New book lays down critical business process improvements essential to commencing a Digital Supply Chain TransformationCredit: World Scientific We are undergoing the next great industrial...
Land repair vital for survival
Successful dryland restoration to benefit 2bn peopleCredit: Flinders University Restoration of degraded drylands is urgently needed to mitigate climate change, reverse desertification and secure livelihoods...
Basic algorithms for undergraduates in a concise and readable form
Credit: World Scientific Every programmer is faced with a double challenge. There is, on the one hand, a need to master some programming language to...
Drought changes rice root microbiome
Credit: Sundaresan lab, UC Davis Drought can have a lasting impact on the community of microbes that live in and around roots of rice plants,...
NTU Singapore scientists develop tougher, safer bicycle helmets using new plastic material
Credit: NTU Singapore As cities worldwide expand their networks of cycling paths and more cyclists take to the streets, the chances of cycling accidents and...
Mini radar could find water and habitable tunnels on the Moon or Mars
A miniature radar device that scans deep below ground is being developed to identify ice deposits and even hollowed out lava tubes on the Moon...
‘Backpacking’ hedgehogs take permanent staycation
Credit: University of Otago New University of Otago research has been examining how alpine-based hedgehogs hibernate from a different perspective - their backs. Dr Nick...
HKU scientists harness the naturally abundant CRISPR-Cas system to edit superbugs with the hope of treating infections caused by drug resistant pathogens
Credit: The University of Hong Kong A research team led by Dr Aixin YAN, Associate Professor from the Research Division for Molecular & Cell Biology,...
Scientists come up with new method for simultaneous processing of different types of waste
Credit: Sergey Gnuskov/NUST MISIS An international research team has come up with an innovative method for metal recovery from industrial waste. The new method allows...
