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Scientists identify a novel method to create efficient alloy-based solar panels free of toxic metalsCredit: DGIST Commercialized thin-film solar panels ...

Bugs resort to several colours to protect themselves from predators

Colourful bugs look very different as young and adults, but why?Credit: Iliana Medina New research has revealed for the first ...

The tug-of-war at the heart of cellular symmetry

May the forces be within your cellsCredit: Kyoto University/Makito Miyazaki Japan -- Symmetry and asymmetry are fundamental properties of nature. ...

From Jekyll to Hyde: New study pinpoints mutation that makes E. coli deadlier

Scientists identify an important protein that increases "bacterial virulence," when mutated, changing harmless bacteria to harmful onesCredit: CHIKARA KAITO As ...

Women underrepresented in academic hospital medicine leadership roles, study finds

Credit: M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine In recent years, the number of women who entered U.S. medical school surpassed the ...

Study is first to identify potential therapeutic targets for COVID-19

Researchers profile the body's immune response in critically ill patientsCredit: Lawson Health Research Institute LONDON, ONTARIO - A team from ...

Uganda’s Ik are not unbelievably selfish and mean

Small ethnic group is cooperative and generous, contrary to 1972 book portrayalCredit: Cathryn Townsend The Ik, a small ethnic group ...

Gold nanoparticles to save neurons from cell death

Published on ACS Nano, journal of the American Chemical Society, the study opens important perspectives for treatment of diseases such ...

Novel function of platelets in tumor blood vessels found

Credit: Yanyu Zhang Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse ...

Seattle researchers team up to build hi-res brain map of Alzheimer’s Disease

$40.5 million NIH-funded project aims to pinpoint cells at the root of the progressive brain disease and home in on ...

Carbon cycling in wet soils

Credit: Courtesy of Adrian Mellage Under changing, increasingly dynamic climatic conditions, temperate soils are forecast to experience a high degree ...

Sunnier but riskier

Conservation efforts to open up rattlesnake habitat bring in much-needed sunlight but could attract more threatening predatorsCredit: Christopher Camacho UNIVERSITY ...

Best way found to treat children with sickle cell anemia in sub-Saharan Africa

Study in New England Journal of Medicine has global implicationsCredit: IU School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, CINCINNATI, and KAMPALA, Uganda - ...

Study shows better option for treatment of inoperable anal cancer

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center People with inoperable anal cancer treated with carboplatin-paclitaxel had fewer complications and lived longer than ...

Scientists develop new tool to design better fusion devices

Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications One way that scientists seek to bring to Earth the fusion process ...

Aerospace engineering student becomes UTA’s sixth Amelia Earhart Fellow

Aerospace student joins 'exceptional group of women'Credit: UT Arlington A doctoral student in aerospace engineering at The University of Texas ...

Dr. Steven R. Goodman releases new edition of textbook

Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (June 24, 2020) - Steven R. Goodman, PhD, vice chancellor for Research at the University of ...

Resident parasites influence appearance, evolution of barn swallows

Credit: Amanda Hund Barn swallows live almost everywhere on the planet, recognizable by their forked tail and agility in the ...

Beneath the surface of our galaxy’s water worlds

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Out beyond our solar system, visible only as the smallest dot in space with even the most powerful ...

Puget Sound eelgrass beds create a ‘halo’ with fewer harmful algae, new method shows