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Credit: FBH/schurian.com FBH exhibits novel diode lasers and modules at Photonics West 2020. Applications include materials processing, LiDAR, medicine, and ...

Abandoning pastures reduces the biodiversity of mountain streams

A study of 15 South Tyrolean waterways shows that the presence of extensive pastures increases biodiversity in streams and riversCredit: ...

Scientists make breakthrough in ion-conducting composite membranes

Credit: DAI Qing Chinese researchers under the direction of Profs. LI Xianfeng and ZHANG Huamin from the Dalian Institute of ...

Need to control blood sugar? There’s a drink for that, says UBC prof

Ketone supplement may control glucose by mimicking some aspects of a ketogenic dietCredit: UBC Okanagan With more people with diabetes ...

Utilizing relativistic effects for laser fusion: A new approach for clean power

Activating relativistic effects of intense laser light in plasma, researchers at Osaka University test a new method for achieving consistent ...

New ‘umbrella’ species would massively improve conservation

Credit: The University of Queensland The protection of Australia's threatened species could be improved by a factor of seven, if ...

Million Veteran Program study sheds light on genetic basis of anxiety

Largest genetic study of anxiety to date reports findingsCredit: Robert Lisak In the largest genetic study on anxiety to date, ...

The birds and the bats: Evolving to fly may have had big effect on gut microbiome

Comparing microbiomes in 900 vertebrate species revealed that bats have guts more like birds than other mammalsCredit: UC San Diego ...

Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes — probably because they can fly

Credit: Holly Lutz At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and "probiotic-fortified" has become the newest health ...

NCI-MATCH: T-DM1 shows promising activity in salivary gland cancer

Discovery in the NCI-MATCH precision medicine cancer trial is consistent with another recent trial, signaling that the data on ado-trastuzumab ...

Biomarker predicts which patients with heart failure have a higher risk of dying

Credit: DEAN ISHIDA A UCLA-led study revealed a new way to predict which patients with "stable" heart failure -- those ...

Study links Medicaid expansion and recipients’ health status

Credit: Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine In Southern states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the ...

Ghost worms mostly unchanged since the age of dinosaurs

Credit: José Cerca, Christian Meyer, Günter Purschke, Torsten H. Struck That size, shape and structure of organisms can evolve at ...

NASA finds heavy rain potential in Tropical Cyclone Blake

Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA's Aqua satellite provided a near visible image and analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical ...

Poplars genetically modified not to harm air quality grow as well as non-modified trees

Credit: Photo by T. Rosenstiel, Portland State University. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Field trials in the Northwest and Southwest show that ...

New study unravels the complexity of childhood obesity

Credit: University of Notre Dame The World Health Organization has estimated more than 340 million children and adolescents ages 5-19 ...

Scientists find new way to sustainably make chemicals by copying nature’s tricks

Credit: Patrik Jones/Imperial College London Researchers have copied the way organisms produce toxic chemicals without harming themselves, paving the way ...

Biodiverse forests better at storing carbon for long periods, says study

Researchers look at unlogged forests in IndiaCredit: Anand Osuri As the effects of climate change are increasingly felt around the ...

Grower citizen science project uses collaboration to improve soil health

Credit: Natasja van Gestel West Texas cotton growers face many environmental challenges, including rising temperatures, higher temperature extremes, less rainfall, ...

Genes controlling mycorrhizal colonization discovered in soybean