Smart bottle brushes
Neutrons make structural changes in molecular brushes visibleCredit: Reiner Mueller / TUM They look like microscopic bottle brushes: Polymers with a backbone and tufts of...
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How the immune system deals with the gut’s plethora of microbes
Credit: Laboratory of Lymphocyte Dynamics of The Rockefeller University The gut is an unusually noisy place, where hundreds of species of bacteria live alongside whatever...
Measuring the expansion of the universe: Researchers focus on velocity
Credit: Peter Laursen Ever since the astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the further apart two galaxies are, the faster they move away from each other,...
VCUarts and Massey Cancer Center win Hamilton International Arts in Health Award
Credit: VCU Massey Cancer Center Last year, 12 patients in the Supportive Care Clinic at VCU Massey Cancer Center stepped inside a conference room, donned...
CAM modes provide environment-specific water-saving benefits in a leaf metabolic model
Credit: Toepfer/ IPK During photosynthesis, plants take in CO2 from the environment and, with the help of sunlight, convert it into energy-rich sugars. CO2 uptake...
The need for speed and science: Virgin Hyperloop to benefit from WVU’s expertise on brain impacts
Credit: Greg Ellis/WVU Before the first Virgin Hyperloop ride takes off, the brains behind pioneering neuroscience research at West Virginia University will help ensure the...
Unravelling the origins of autoimmune psychosis
A first step towards potential treatmentsCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Anti-NMDAR encephalitis is an autoimmune brain illness that is often mistaken by a psychiatric disorder since...
Face mask aims to deactivate virus to protect others
Anti-viral layer attacks respiratory droplets to make mask wearer less infectiousCredit: Northwestern University In the pandemic, people wear face masks to respect and protect others...
Brain imaging of tau protein in patients with various forms of dementia
Credit: Tagai, Ono, and Kubota et al A new imaging-based method could enable the early detection and differentiation of a wide variety of neurodegenerative disorders...
Machine learning helps pinpoint sources of the most common cardiac arrhythmia
Credit: Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Researchers from Skoltech and their US colleagues have designed a new machine learning-based approach for detecting atrial fibrillation drivers,...
Advanced facade material for urban heat island mitigation
Using analytical models to evaluate the reflection directional performance of the retro-reflective materials applied to building facadesCredit: COPYRIGHT (C) TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. ALL RIGHTS...
Researchers find direction decided by rate of coin flip in quantum world
Credit: Haruna Katayama, Hiroshima University Flip a coin. Heads? Take a step to the left. Tails? Take a step to the right. In the quantum...
How Twitter takes votes away from Trump but not from Republicans
In the 2016 US presidential election, Twitter made independent voters less likely to vote for Donald Trump but did not affect other elections, finds new...
HSE Faculty of Chemistry scientists discovered new anti-cancer molecule
Credit: Victor S.Stroylov et.al. A group of Moscow scientists has discovered and explained the activity mechanism of a new anti-cancer molecule -- diphenylisoxazole. This molecule...
Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast
ALFaLDS works on large oil& gas infrastructure, can help cut methane emissions by 90%Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., October 28, 2020--A new...
