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Films consist of natural ingredients, they are healthy-safe and water-solubilityCredit: UrFU / Andrey Fomin. An international group of scientists from India and Russia has created...

Parkinson’s gene may impair how new neurons are made throughout our lifetime

Credit: University of Sheffield A pioneering study, published in Scientific Reports, found that the Parkinon's gene PINK1 is important for the generation of dopamine-producing neurons...

Algorithms inspired by social networks reveal lifecycle of substorms, a key element of space weather

Evolution of auroral substorms revealed by physicists at University of Warwick using the same methods that link people through social mediaCredit: Background map credit: SuperMAG...

Nanobiomaterial boosts neuronal growth in mice with spinal cord injuries

Credit: Liming Cheng, Rongrong Zhu, Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital of Tongji University Researchers from the Department of Orthopedics of Tongji Hospital at Tongji University...

Novel thermometer can accelerate quantum computer development

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, have developed a novel type of thermometer that can simply and quickly measure temperatures during quantum calculations...

UNIST students honored with 2021 Asan Foundation Scholarship

Credit: UNIST Three UNIST graduate students have been awarded the prestigious 2021 Asan Foundation Medical Bioscience Scholarship, an annual award given to the nation's top...

uOttawa research team plays key role in global detection of COVID-19

Credit: University of Ottawa Did you know there's a little bit of uOttawa inside COVID-19 test kits used worldwide? That's because a team of researchers...

A strong coffee half an hour before exercising increases fat-burning

Drinking a strong coffee half an hour before exercising increases fat-burning, new study findsCredit: University of Granada Scientists from the Department of Physiology of the...

Fruit fly egg takes an active hand in its own growth, highlighting parallels to mammals

Credit: (c) Simons Foundation A cast of so-called 'nurse cells' surrounds and supports the growing fruit fly egg during development, supplying the egg -- or...

Phytol may be promising for eco-friendly agrochemicals to control root-knot nematodes

Credit: Taketo Fujimoto, Hiroshi Abe, Takayuki Mizukubo, and Shigemi Seo Root-knot nematodes (RKNs, Meloidogyne spp.) infect a broad range of plants, including several agriculturally important...

UMass Amherst researchers develop ultra-sensitive flow microsensors

Research could lead to more breakthroughs in neuroscience, metabolismCredit: UMass Amherst A team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed the thinnest...

UNM study: As more are vaccinated, it makes economic sense to gradually open the economy

Credit: UNM School of Engineering A University of New Mexico research team conducted a data analysis that has found that as a larger portion of...

What early-budding trees tell us about genetics, climate change

Credit: Sarah Atkinson/Michigan Tech One of the surest signs of spring is the vibrantly lime-green tinge trees develop as their buds open and tiny new...

Planting the seed for DNA nanoconstructs that grow to the micron scale

A concept for seeded all-or-nothing assembly of micron-scale DNA nanostructures that could extend nanofabrication capabilities and enable creation of highly specific diagnosticsCredit: Wyss Institute at...

Focusing on the unhealthy brain to speed drug discovery