Preventing evictions remains critical to controlling COVID-19, study finds
Penn researchers simulated the epidemic's trajectory, finding that even a modest increase in evictions could lead to thousands of excess COVID cases in a single...
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Study could lead to production of more efficient optoelectronic devices
Resonant-tunneling diodes are used in high-frequency oscillators, wave emitters and detectors, logic gates, photodetectors, and optoelectronic circuits. The study was a collaboration between Brazilian and...
Chickens and pigs with integrated genetic scissors
Genome editing in farm animalsCredit: A. Heddergott / TUM Researchers at the TUM have demonstrated a way to efficiently study molecular mechanisms of disease resistance...
After 40 years, new fish species in named by students on Guam
Credit: Brian Sidlauskas, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Four decades after their capture more than a half-mile below the ocean's surface, three snailfish species...
Biologists discover a new type of placental structure in animals
The Cyclostomata is an ancient group of aquatic colonial suspension-feeders from the phylum Bryozoa. The fact that they have unique placentae has been discovered by...
Single metasurface for simultaneous detection of SAM and OAM
Credit: by Yinghui Guo, Shicong Zhang, Mingbo Pu, Qiong He, Jinjin Jin, Mingfeng Xu, Yaxin Zhang, Ping Gao, Xiangang Luo With inherent orthogonality, both SAMs...
New pulsed magnet reveals a new state of matter in Kondo insulator
The experiment is the first to use the new duplex magnet at the National MagLab's Pulsed Field Facility at Los AlamosCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory...
Database developed on key mollusk to study pollution in coastal areas
Credit: University of Córdoba Scrobiculariaplana is a type of wedge clam widely found along the coasts and estuariesof northern Europe, the Mediterranean and West Africa....
Overgrowth of gut yeast in newborns may increase asthma risk
Trans-kingdom imbalances in the gut microbes of newborns may increase the risk of asthma later in life, providing a possible target for treating the conditionCredit:...
Water muting with THz optoacoustics: A breakthrough for biomedical applications
The terahertz optoacoustic signal of water can be manipulated by adjusting temperature to allow detection of solutes, such as ions, with an order of magnitude...
Eco-friendly technique by NUS team to upcycle metal waste into multi-purpose aerogels
Promising applications include light-weight building materials and for growing cells for biomedical purposesCredit: National University of Singapore Metals are one of the most widely used...
Human land use wasn’t always at nature’s expense
Credit: Ganta Srinivas Nearly three-quarters of Earth's land had been transformed by humans by 10,000BC, but new research shows it largely wasn't at the expense...
Scientists at IRB Barcelona discover the cause of neurodegeneration in Lafora disease
Credit: IRB Barcelona Lafora disease is an inherited neurodegenerative condition that initially develops with seizures in adolescence and evolves with progressive degeneration of the nervous...
Surpassing the lower limit on computing energy consumption
Topological materials beat Boltzmann's tyrannyCredit: Errol Hunt (FLEET) New FLEET research confirms the potential for topological materials to substantially reduce the energy consumed by computing....
All-in-one test for COVID-19 surveillance
Credit: © 2021 KAUST; Ivan Gromicho A new type of COVID-19 testing strategy could help streamline the process of identifying cases, tracking variants and detecting...
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