Triggered by light, a novel way to switch on an enzyme
Biotechnology: Researchers identify enzyme which becomes catalytically active by light; study published in 'Nature Communications'Credit: Steffen L. Drees Enzymes: they ...
Honeybees: Pesticides disrupt nursing behavior and larval development
Unique long-term videos show the bee nursery in the hiveCredit: Paul Siefert/Bee Research Institute Oberursel/Goethe University Frankfurt A newly developed ...
Eye injury sets immune cells on surveillance to protect the lens
The discovery further challenges the accepted scientific dogma that the lens is shut out from the immune protection.Credit: JodiRae DeDreu, ...
Research highlights immune molecule’s complex role in Huntington’s disease
Credit: Hyeseung Lee/ MIT Picower Institute More than a decade before people with Huntington's disease show symptoms, they can exhibit ...
MAVEN maps electric currents around mars that are fundamental to atmospheric loss
Credit: NASA/Goddard/MAVEN/CU Boulder/SVS/Cindy Starr Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has ...
USF engineer and biologist unite to fight coronavirus with corona discharge with NSF grant
Credit: University of South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (May 26, 2020)- An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of South ...
Photoelectron Momentum Microscope for µm-material electronic structure visualization
A new imaging electron analyzer that visualizes the electronic structure of micrometer-scale functional materials in both real space and momentum ...
Novel electric impulses relieve the pain
Stimulating the vagus nerve in the ear can help relieving chronic pain. TU Wien and MedUni Vienna have developed novel, ...
Similar to humans, chimpanzees develop slowly
Chimpanzees need more than five years to acquire key skillsCredit: Tatiana Bortolato, Taï Chimpanzee Project Few species develop as slowly ...
New method for capturing carbon via root exudates in wild forest
Credit: Naoki Makita Ph.D., Faculty of Science, Shinshu University It is well known that plants use carbon dioxide obtained from ...
Release of 216 SARS-CoV-2 genomes provides insights into transmission cluster in Austria
Credit: CeMM 216 SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences have now been completed and released in the framework of the "Mutational Dynamics of ...
Circadian oscillation of a cyanobacterium doesn’t need all three Kai proteins to keep going
Overturning conventional knowledge, what these scientists have discovered about the circadian oscillations of a cyanobacterium could lead to unveiling a ...
Schizophrenia: When the thalamus misleads the ear
Auditory hallucinations -- one of the most characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia -- have been linked to a hyper-connection between the ...
Researchers discover how protein can inhibit cancer development in mice
Credit: The University of Copenhagen Proteins are found throughout our cells and regulate a lot of biological processes that are ...
Nanoneedles to increase the capacity and robustness of digital memories
Applying a localized pressure improves the control of metamagnetic materials at the nanoscaleCredit: ICMAB-CSIC Some memory devices where information from ...
Bumblebees speed up flowering
Credit: Photograph: Hannier Pulido / ETH Zurich Spring has sprung earlier than ever before this year, accompanied by temperatures more ...
Ultrafast optical response and ablation mechanisms of molybdenum disulfide
Credit: by Changji Pan, Lan Jiang, Jingya Sun, Qingsong Wang, Feifei Wang, Kai Wang, Yongfeng Lu, Yeliang Wang, Liangti Qu ...
Exchange of arms between chromosomes using molecular scissors
CRISPR/Cas revolutionizes crop cultivation by specific combination of properties -- new genome modification technology presented in Nature PlantsCredit: Angelina Schindele, ...
Controlling angular dispersions in optical metasurfaces
Credit: by Xiyue Zhang, Qi Li, Feifei Liu, Meng Qiu, Shulin Sun, Qiong He, Lei Zhou Despite of impressive successes ...
HKU ecologists and international team discover ongoing and future tropical diversity decline
Credit: Katsunori Kimoto How can patterns in the marine biodiversity of the past help us to understand how it may ...
