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...
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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 -...
Researchers uncover activation mechanism of a cell growth protein that can trigger cancer
Credit: Thorsten Mohr There are many different types of cancer, but they all have one thing in common: errors in the signals that control normal...
High dose of vitamin D fails to improve condition of moderate to severe COVID-19 patients
A clinical trial was conducted with 240 patients who were given 200,000 IU of vitamin D3 on admission to hospital. The supplementation did not reduce...
Quantifying the level of pollution in marinas
Credit: Universidad de Sevilla An interdisciplinary group of Spanish scientists, bringing together biologists and chemists from the Universities of Seville, Huelva, the Autonomous University of...
Newly discovered immune cell function vital to healing
Credit: David Ahl Cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death, is the result of oxygen deprivation as blood perfusion to affected tissue is prevented....
Climate has shifted the axis of the Earth
Credit: Credit: Deng et al (2021) Geophysical Research Letters/AGU WASHINGTON-- Glacial melting due to global warming is likely the cause of a shift in the...
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