Tracking Australia’s gigantic carnivorous dinosaurs
Credit: Dr Anthony Romilio North America had the T. rex, South America had the Giganotosaurus and Africa the Spinosaurus - now evidence shows Australia had...
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New nanoparticle drug combination for atherosclerosis
Credit: Professor Ji-Ho Park, KAIST Physicochemical cargo-switching nanoparticles (CSNP) designed by KAIST can help significantly reduce cholesterol and macrophage foam cells in arteries, which are...
Red squirrels making comeback as return of pine marten spells bad news for invasive grey squirrel
NUI Galway study finds Ireland's native species recovering and returning to natural habitatsCredit: Poshey Aherne The number of red squirrels is on the increase in...
Nanofiber masks can be sterilized multiple times without filter performance deterioration
Credit: Copyright ©2020 American Chemical Society With the global spread of coronavirus infections, personal protective equipments especially hygeine face masks are receiving much attention. Masks...
Bouillon fortified with a new iron compound could help reduce iron deficiency
Credit: Yen Strandqvist/Chalmers University of Technology Iron fortification of food is a cost-effective method of preventing iron deficiency. But finding iron compounds that are easily...
Researchers develop a compact 28 GHz transceiver supporting dual-polarized MIMO
Study contributes to driving advances in 5GCredit: 2020 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and NEC Corporation...
Cellular nanosponges could soak up SARS-CoV-2
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02278 Scientists are working overtime to find an effective treatment for COVID-19, the illness caused by the new...
Half of the world’s population exposed to increasing air pollution, study shows
Credit: Professor Gavin Shaddick/University of Exeter Half of the world's population is exposed to increasing air pollution, new research has shown. A team of researchers,...
Fish evolution in action: Land fish forced to adapt after leap out of water
Credit: Terry Ord, UNSW Sydney A diverse diet and flexible behaviour may have empowered blenny fish to make a dramatic transition out of the water...
CMU method makes more data available for training self-driving cars
Additional data boosts accuracy of tracking other cars, pedestriansCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--For safety's sake, a self-driving car must accurately track the movement of pedestrians,...
Young people with early psychosis may not require antipsychotic medications to recover
Credit: Photo: Orygen Researchers at Orygen have found that some young people with early stage first episode psychosis (FEP) can experience reduced symptoms and improve...
Crop residue decisions affect soil life
Credit: Rachel Schutte In some ways, farming is like cooking. Cooking would be much easier if we could leave the kitchen after eating and not...
New structural ‘map’ solves mysteries of gigantic gene regulator
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Structural biology has been used to 'map' part of a protein called SMCHD1, explaining how some changes in...
How fish got onto land, and stayed there
Credit: Terry Ord Research on blennies, a family of fish that have repeatedly left the sea for land, suggests that being a 'jack of all...
The Lancet Infectious Diseases: UK modelling study finds case isolation and contact tracing vital to COVID-19 epidemic control
Combining self-isolation and contact tracing with moderate physical distancing measures, such as limiting social gatherings and remote working, could enable ongoing control of the COVID-19...
