Jets pose many riddles
Credit: (Image collage: Matthias Kadler (JMU); based on individual images by C. Fromm (JMU), A. Baczko (MPIfR), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF). Black holes...
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Obstacles on the racetrack of life
Credit: Sandy Westermann The corona pandemic has ensured that the term "mRNA" is now also known to a large public beyond laboratories and lecture halls....
NTU Singapore converts tamarind shells into an energy source for vehicles
Credit: Credit to NTU Singapore Shells of tamarind, a tropical fruit consumed worldwide, are discarded during food production. As they are bulky, tamarind shells take...
Genome studies: More is not always better
Credit: Arthur Korte What the fruit fly is to zoologists, the thale cress is to botanists. The widespread herb with the botanical name Arabidopsis thaliana...
Compound derived from turmeric essential oil has neuroprotective properties
A: Immunostained images of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), a dopaminergic marker, in midbrain slice cultures co-treated with IFNγ/LPS and ar-turmerone derivatives. (Scale bar: 100 micrometers) Researchers...
UTA researcher publishes study showing economic impacts of combating sea-level rise
Economic impacts of floodingCredit: UT Arlington Sea-level rise threatens to produce more frequent and severe flooding in coastal regions and is expected to cause trillions...
New mechanism of superconductivity discovered in graphene
Placing a 2D Bose-Einstein condensate in the vicinity of a graphene layer confers superconductivity to the materialCredit: Institute for Basic Science Superconductivity is a physical...
UTA developing technology using nanoparticles, ultrasound to detect tiny breast tumors
A new diagnostic tool for small tumors in breastsCredit: UT Arlington A bioengineering professor at The University of Texas at Arlington is developing a technique...
Limiting incident NA for efficient wavefront shaping through thin anisotropic scattering media
Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has succeeded in developing a new optical microscope technology, capable of deeper imaging beyond the biological...
Liquid metal sensors and AI could help prosthetic hands to ‘feel’
Study first to use liquid metal sensors and machine learning on a prosthetic handCredit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University Each fingertip has more than 3,000...
New WHO study links moderate alcohol use with higher cancer risk
One in four new breast cancers and one in five colon cancers in Canada attributed to alcoholCredit: World Health Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Research...
Quantum physics helps destroy cancer cells
Researchers have found a way to enhance radiation therapy using novel iodine nanoparticlesCredit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto University iCeMS Cancer cell death is triggered within three days...
Physicists describe sun’s electric field
Credit: Jasper Halekas lab, University of Iowa As the Parker Solar Probe ventures closer to the sun, we are learning new things about our home...
DNA from 1,600-year-old Iranian sheep mummy brings history to life
Credit: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum and Zanjan Cultural Heritage Centre, Archaeological Museum of Zanjan. A team of geneticists and archaeologists from Ireland, France, Iran, Germany, and...
Decoding crop genetics with artificial intelligence
Cross-disciplinary researchers are bringing the power of AI to plant biology with the support of more than $1 million from the NSFCredit: Michigan State University...
