Periods and pregnancy still taboo in women’s football
Sport and exercise experts are calling for better education around periods and pregnancy in women’s football.Credit: E-WinS Sport and exercise experts are calling for better...
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Novel single-crystal production method opens up promising avenues for studies in solid-state physics
Single crystals are materials in which the crystal lattice is continuous and unbroken to the edges of the sample, with no grain boundaries. The atoms...
NYU Tandon researchers explore a more frictionless future
BROOKLYN, New York, Thursday, November 3, 2022 -- Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Elisa Riedo and her team have discovered a fundamental friction law...
Invasive fruit fly may pose threat to forest ecosystems
The invasive spotted wing drosophila (SWD), introduced from South-East Asia, is a well-known fruit crop pest. It lays its eggs by destroying the mechanical protection...
Senescent cells as vaccines against cancer
Credit: IRB Barcelona Researchers at IRB Barcelona report that the induction of senescence in tumour cells strongly stimulates the immune system. Vaccination with senescent...
Perturbing the Bernoulli shift map in binary systems
Is it possible for a deterministic system to be unpredictable? Although counter-intuitive, the answer is yes. Such systems are called “chaotic systems,” which are characterized...
Can cosmic inflation be ruled out?
Astrophysicists say that cosmic inflation – a point in the Universe’s infancy when space-time expanded exponentially, and what physicists really refer to when they talk...
From Graphene to Gravity: Exploring the Physics of Emergence
A new short volume by veteran science writer George Musser covers the concept of emergence in two domains of physics: the physics of materials (known...
Artificial intelligence makes enzyme engineering easy
Osaka, Japan – You can't expect a pharmaceutical scientist to switch labs to the facilities available in a television studio and expect the same research...
Demonstration of feasible waste plastic pyrolysis through decentralized biomass heating business model
Thermal pyrolysis of plastics has drawn considerable attention as a reliable and emerging technology for resource recycling since it can create valuable by-products in the...
Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do
Good news for those who struggle to fit a gym workout into their day: you may be able to cut your weights routine in half...
How magnetism could help explain Earth’s formation
There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where the...
Alexandra Zhernakova and Igor Alabugin receive RASA’s Gamow Award
G.A. Gamow award, established by the Russian-American Association of Scientists (RASA-America, Russian-American Science Association) in memory of the outstanding Russian-American physicist, Professor Georgy Antonovich Gamow...
New insights into how exercise protects against neurodegenerative diseases
Amsterdam, November 2, 2022 – Accumulating evidence finds that exercise can improve brain function and delay or prevent the onset of neurodegenerative diseases such as...
Grant will support innovative gene therapy research into treatment for fatal neurodegenerative diseases
Amanda Woerman, assistant professor of biology, has received a grant from the Tau Consortium of the Rainwater Charitable Foundation to accelerate her research that aims to develop a gene...
