2D natural clay offers a platform for machine learning algorithm
Algorism plays a significant role in predicting future states of a system. Particularly, non-Markov chain algorithm has been widely applied in epidemic spreading processes, social...
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Victoria M Kaspi and Chryssa Kouveliotou receive the 2021 Shaw Prize in Astronomy
The Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2021 is shared equally by Victoria M. Kaspi, Professor of Physics and Director of McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Canada...
Graphene-based nanozyme helps to detect L-cysteine in serum
Graphene-based materials can be obtained using various reducing agents, many of which are dangerous and toxic chemicals, and the obtained graphene-based materials are prone to...
Ganoderic acid increases radiosensitivity of cancer cell
Recently, the research team led by Prof. KONG Lingtao from Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) prepared a highly active...
SwRI works to improve atmospheric water harvesting
Researchers seek to create more efficient, cost-effective method SAN ANTONIO -- June 1, 2021 -- Engineers and chemists at Southwest Research Institute have teamed up...
Californian smoke drifted as far as Europe in 2020 and caused heavy clouding of sun
ESA's Aeolus wind satellite also provides valuable data on aerosol in the atmosphere Leipzig. The smoke from the extreme forest fires on the US West...
Protecting the intellectual abilities of people at risk for psychosis
A UNIGE team has found that a class of drugs can protect the development of intellectual abilities in people at risk of psychosis, if prescribed...
Solar energy-driven sustainable process for synthesis of ethylene glycol from methanol
Credit: Chinese Journal of Catalysis The photochemistry of the future will spring up human industry without smoke, and bring a brighter civilization based on the...
How do plants hedge their bets?
In some environments there is no way for a seed to know for sure when the best time to germinate is. In spring, cues like...
Novel nano-encapsulation approach for efficient dopamine delivery in Parkinson’s treatment
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder caused by the death of dopaminergic neurons in a part of the brain (known as substantia nigra...
REsolution: Opening the gates for new medicines
The new REsolution consortium is a public-private research partnership, supported by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), with nine partners from academia and the pharmaceutical industry....
Bar-Ilan University researchers increase life expectancy in mice by an average of 30%
The mechanism through which the protein SIRT6 acts as a 'fountain of youth' allows old mice to conduct the same level of vigorous activity as...
Metamaterial improves sensitivity of infrared absorption spectroscopy 100 times
KIMM and UNIST develop metamaterial that improves infrared spectroscopic detection signal 100 times; low-cost technique revolutionizes detection of harmful substances and biomolecules A local research...
Sick bats also employ ‘social distancing’ which prevents the outbreak of epidemics
New study from Tel Aviv University reveals that bats also resort to isolation which can assist in preventing mass contagion The Covid-19 pandemic has introduced...
Corruption in healthcare worsens the health of patients and the quality of nutrition
This is evidenced by the experience of post-communist countries, including Russia Bribery in the public healthcare does not solve the problem of poor quality of...
