Successful cancer therapy using artificial metalloenzymes to deliver drugs
Credit: RIKEN Researchers led by Katsunori Tanaka and Kenward Vong at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan have demonstrated that tumor growth...
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From corals to crops: How life protects the plans for its cellular power stations
Credit: Gemma Lofthouse An international team of researchers led by the University of Bergen has uncovered how organisms from crops to corals may avoid deadly...
First description of a new octopus species without using a scalpel
Biologists at the University of Bonn use state-of-the-art non-destructive methods to study an octopus from the deep seaCredit: © Alexander Ziegler An evolutionary biologist from...
Research shows pain relieving effects of CBD
A new study led by researchers at Syracuse University sheds light on the ability of CBD to reduce pain along with the impact that the...
Climate change impacts conservation sites across the Americas
Credit: Professor Stephen Willis A continental-scale network of conservation sites is likely to remain effective under future climate change scenarios, despite a predicted shift in...
Fiber optic cable monitors microseismicity in Antarctica
Credit: Michael Kendall/ University of Oxford At the Seismological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting, researchers shared how they are using fiber optic cable to...
International award for IPK scientist Nils Stein
Credit: IPK Leibniz Institute/ Andreas Bähring "Prof. Dr. Nils Stein will be awarded a medal from the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund for his significant...
Response options should be at the center of climate risk assessment and management
Credit: Simpson et al. 2021 (please hyperlink to paper) A team of researchers from the Africa Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) led a global team...
Defense mechanisms in aphids can become a double-edged sword, sharpened by the seasons
Protective endosymbiont dynamics in pea aphids are sharpened by selectionCredit: Drexel University/Linyao Peng Evolution is unfolding in real time within many natural animal populations and...
Danish participation in over a third of the new James Webb Space Telescope’s initial observations
Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) When the James Webb Space Telescope, despite repeated delays, finally launches in October, and after some initial...
Hubble celebrates 31st birthday with giant star on the edge of destruction
Credit: NASA, ESA and STScI The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation...
‘Planar and curved’ pyrrole-fused azacoronenes
Effect of 3D sructures on π-electron functionsCredit: Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University Recently study on synthetic approaches toward polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)...
Ankle exoskeleton enables faster walking
Credit: Farrin Abbott Being unable to walk quickly can be frustrating and problematic, but it is a common issue, especially as people age. Noting the...
Finding clues to nephronophthisis in adults
Credit: Department of Nephrology,TMDU Researchers at Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) in a pioneering study identify clinical, genetic and histopathological characteristics that may help...
Force transmission between cells orchestrates collective cellular motion
Credit: Amin Doostmohammadi How do the billions of cells communicate in order to perform tasks? The cells exert force on their environment through movement -...
