Recycling robot could help solve soft plastic waste crisis
Researchers create robot that sorts soft plastic Despite an improvement in plastic recycling in recent years, landfill is a growing issue. Soft plastics like cling...
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Some seafloor microbes can take the heat: And here’s what they eat
WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- It's cold in the depths of the world's oceans; most of the seafloor is at a chilly 4°C. Not so the...
Antelope’s fate shrouded by social, political forces
The story of South Africa's oribi mirrors conservation issues for other iconic species If only it were as simple as finding more grassland for an...
Transforming CO2 and sugars into biofuel
With a $2.7 million grant, UD researchers using microbes to make valuable chemicals In the quest to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere and curb...
Ready, set, go – how stem cells synchronise to repair the spinal cord in axolotls
The spinal cord is an important component of our central nervous system: it connects the brain with the rest of the body and plays a...
Self-reported declines in cognition may be linked to changes in brain connectivity
DETROIT - Jessica Damoiseaux, Ph.D., an associate professor with the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University, recently published the results of a three-year study...
Insilico Medicine gets $255 million to boost AI-powered R&D, announces a collaboration
June 22, 2021, New York / Hong Kong -- Insilico Medicine, a global leader in end-to-end artificial intelligence for target discovery, small molecule chemistry, and...
YCharOS forms key industry advisory committee and releases first open data
Leading antibody reagent and knockout cell line manufacturers team up to address life science reproducibility crisis YCharOS Inc., an open science company with the mission...
Did the ancient Maya have parks?
First-of-its-kind DNA analysis finds trees and wild vegetation grew around reservoirs in Tikal The ancient Maya city of Tikal was a bustling metropolis and home...
Synthetic tree enhances solar steam generation for harvesting drinking water
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2021 -- About 2.2 billion people globally lack reliable access to clean drinking water, according to the United Nations, and the growing...
SwRI will create searchable additive manufacturing database
Project, supported by $50,000 from America Makes, will utilize novel data management tools SAN ANTONIO -- June 22, 2021 -- Southwest Research Institute will create...
Exotic superconductors: The secret that wasn’t there
How reproducible are measurements in solid-state physics? New measurements show: An allegedly sensational effect does not exist at all A single measurement result is not...
Insilico collaborates with Teva on AI system for target discovery
Insilico enters into a collaboration with Teva to apply novel generative artificial intelligence for the discovery of potential therapeutic targets Tuesday, June 22, 2021 -...
Secretin hormone induces satiation by activating brown fat
Researchers from the Turku PET Centre and Technical University of Munich have discovered a new mechanism controlling satiation. According to the recently published study, the...
Boost for mouse genetic analysis
96% of mouse genome accessible to high-resolution single-cell analysis -- MADM technology expanded in new resource published in Cell Reports Genetic mosaic individuals, which contain...
