Could kelp help relieve ocean acidification?
Credit: Image credit: Heidi Hirsh Ethereal, swaying pillars of brown kelp along California's coasts grow up through the water column, culminating in a dense surface...
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RIT students discover hidden 15th-century text on medieval manuscripts
Imaging system they built as freshmen reveals new information about Otto Ege CollectionCredit: RIT Rochester Institute of Technology students discovered lost text on 15th-century manuscript...
CZI awards $4.7 million for open source software and organizations advancing open science
Funding supports software tools essential to biomedicine and organizations that promote reproducible researchCredit: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $3 million...
How the flu virus spreads within cities
Credit: CDC, 2020 New insights into the local transmission of seasonal influenza may be valuable for planning interventions to combat the spread of respiratory diseases...
A pressure sensor at your fingertips
An imperceptible thin-film sensor to record movement and the sense of touchCredit: © 2020 Someya et al. Researchers have developed an ultrathin pressure sensor that...
An app may make digital contact tracing for COVID-19 more private and secure
With an award from the National Science Foundation, researchers at WPI and Virginia Tech are developing an app with technology to protect a user's personal...
Insights in the search for new antibiotics
Credit: Zhao, S., Adamiak, J.W., Bonifay, V. et al. Defining new chemical space for drug penetration into Gram-negative bacteria. Nat Chem Biol 16, 1293-1302 (2020)....
Plastic film used to protect foods and surfaces inactivates novel coronavirus
In laboratory tests, the material eliminated 79.9% of SARS-CoV-2 particles in three minutes and 99.99% in up to 15 minutes (photo: Alpes)Credit: Alpes Transparent stretchable...
University of Göttingen receives another Alexander von Humboldt professorship
Physicist Dr. Jan Huisken nominated for top level research at the Cluster of Excellence MBExCCredit: sample by Julie Jurgens, Elizabeth Engle Lab, Boston Children's Hospital...
Nonlinear ionization dynamics of hot dense plasma observed in a laser-plasma amplifier
Researchers have succeeded in directly observing the formation and interaction of highly ionized krypton plasmaCredit: Image: Jens Meyer/University of Jena The last decade has been...
Scientists age quantum dots in a test tube
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers from MIPT and the RAS Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics have proposed a simple and convenient way to...
Vibrations of coronavirus proteins may play a role in infection
Study suggests mechanical properties of spike proteins can predict infectivity and lethality of different coronavirusesCredit: Markus Buehler and Yiwen Hu/MIT CAMBRIDGE, MA -- When someone...
Antibody cocktails at low doses could be more effective at treating COVID-19
Credit: University of North Carolina/Megan May Pairs of antibodies may be more effective than single antibodies at preventing and treating COVID-19, according to a new...
Army, MIT explore materials for transforming robots made of robots
Credit: (Kohshi Katoh, Toyota Automotive Society) ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Scientists from the U.S. Army and MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms created a...
Mystery solved: a ‘New Kind of Electrons’
Why do certain materials emit electrons with a very specific energy? This has been a mystery for decades - scientists at TU Wien have found...
