Fuel walking and cycling with low carbon diets, researchers say
Credit: University of Otago Walking and cycling have many benefits and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but researchers say we need to think about what...
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New biomaterial has potential to repair damaged bone with lower risk of inflammation
Credit: Titan II Scientists at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have developed a new biomaterial that has the potential to accelerate bone regeneration...
$2.4 million from ARPA-E for transformational energy technology
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech researchers were recently awarded $2.4 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to...
Heart attack in a dish: a 3D model
Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and Clemson University report that they have developed human cardiac organoids to model myocardial infarction and drug...
Steering new mobility in the right direction
Matching the speed of technology with the speed of local governmentCredit: Cait McCusker Advances in transportation technology -- e-scooters and bike share, Lyft & Uber,...
Artificial intelligence makes blurry faces look more than 60 times sharper
This AI turns even the blurriest photo into realistic computer-generated faces in HDCredit: Rudin lab DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have developed an AI...
Transient increase in blood pressure promotes some blood vessel growth
Finding has implications for combating tumor growth and diseaseCredit: Daisuke Yoshino, TUAT Blood vessels are the body's transportation system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to cells...
Water bacteria have a green thumb
Microbiologists at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) identify a new type of planktomycete that produces bioactive natural productsCredit: Manfred Rohde/HZI Braunschweig The sheer...
Statistical analyses of plant metabolites allow solid testing of plant defense theories
High-throughput analyses of small substances in Nicotiana attenuata reveal that plants re-organize their metabolism to produce highly-specific defense metabolites after insect attackCredit: Danny Kessler, Max...
Silicones may lead to cell death
Credit: Radboud University Silicone molecules from breast implants can initiate processes in human cells that lead to cell death. Researchers from Radboud University have demonstrated...
Unlocking PNA’s superpowers for self-assembling nanostructures
Credit: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid (γPNA),...
Minimizing thermal conductivity of crystalline material with optimal nanostructure
Towards application of materials informatics to development of thermal functional materialsCredit: The University of Tokyo Professor Junichiro Shiomi et al. from The University of Tokyo...
Scientists report heavy ion transfer in charged vdW cluster for the first time
Credit: IMP Since the discovery of the double helix form of DNA and the hypothesis of DNA mutation induced by proton transfer more than 50...
Plant cell gatekeepers’ diversity could be key to better crops
Credit: Annamaria De Rosa, CoETP Scientists have shed new light on how the network of gatekeepers that controls the traffic in and out of plant...
Half the earth relatively intact from global human influence
Study presents clear opportunities to conserve what remainsCredit: Jason Riggio/UC Davis Roughly half of Earth's ice-free land remains without significant human influence, according to a...
