Increased usability and precision in vascular imaging
Credit: Willy Kuo, University of Zurich Various diseases in humans and animals - such as tumors, strokes or chronic kidney disease - damage the blood...
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Kirigami/origami: Unfolding the new regime of advanced 3D micro-/nanofabrication with ‘folding’
Credit: by Shanshan Chen, Jianfeng Chen, Xiangdong Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Li, and Jiafang Li 3D micro-/nanofabrication holds the key to build a large variety of micro-/nanoscale...
Rejuvenated fibroblasts can recover the ability to contract
Credit: National University of Singapore Fibroblasts are the most common connective tissue cells. They produce the structural framework for animal tissues, synthesise the extracellular matrix...
NIH grant opens research, training for young scientists to study metabolic disorders
$11 million Center for Biomedical Research Excellence grant awarded to Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a campus of Louisiana State UniversityCredit: LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center....
Even natural products can be harmful for the unborn child
Credit: University of Bern Plant products ingested by pregnant women through their diet are broken down by the intestinal microbiota into chemical substances, some of...
Worth their salt: Skoltech and MIPT researchers report first case of hexagonal NaCl
Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Skoltech and MIPT scientists have predicted and then experimentally confirmed the existence of exotic hexagonal thin films of NaCl on...
The wildlife trade encompasses all major branches of the biological tree of life
Credit: Marco Antonio de Freitas. Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of global public health issues and...
Exotic properties of helium-methane compounds inside giant planets
Credit: ©Science China Press National Key R&D Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of...
Cichlid fish loves exaggerated shells
Scientists dissect the complex choices of animalsCredit: MPI of Animal Behavior/ Jordan Lab What is important when you choose a home? Space, security, light -...
Synthesis of prebiotic peptides gives clues to the origin of life on Earth
A paper by Kazan Federal University appeared in Amino AcidsCredit: Kazan Federal University Coordination Compounds Lab of Kazan Federal University started researching prebiotic peptide synthesis...
Performing optical logic operations by a diffractive neural network
Credit: by Chao Qian, Xiao Lin, Xiaobin Lin, Jian Xu, Yang Sun, Erping Li, Baile Zhang, and Hongsheng Chen Optical logical operations have sparked major...
Smart machine maintenance: New AI system also detects unknown faults
Credit: Oliver Dietze A new maintenance system is helping to make sensors smart. A research team led by Professor Andreas Schütze of Saarland University is...
Towards visible-wavelength passively mode-locked lasers in all-fibre format
Credit: by Jinhai Zou, Chuchu Dong, Hongjian Wang, Tuanjie Du, and Zhengqian Luo Mode-locked fibre lasers generating ultrashort pulses with the advantages of robustness, compactness...
Sugar turns brown algae into good carbon stores
Only highly specialized bacteria can carry out the degradation of brown algae with the help of more than hundred enzymesCredit: Max Planck Institute for Marine...
Chirality-assisted lateral momentum transfer for bidirectional enantioselective separation
Credit: by Cheng-Wei Qiu Light carrying photon momentum can push and pull microparticles through momentum exchange. This momentum exchange progress generates optical forces, either attracts...
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