Many prolonged sick leaves for COVID-19
Nearly 12,000 people in Sweden received sickness benefit from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency for COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic. The median...
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A step closer to a hydrogen-fuelled economy using an efficient anode for water splitting
Development of highly efficient nickel sulfide nanowires stuffed into carbon nitride scabbards as anodes with extremely low overpotential for electrocatalytic water splitting applications Niigata, Japan...
USC study reveals potential new treatment target for Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers at Keck School of Medicine of USC identify a novel target related to the blood-brain barrier and a potential therapy that offers hope for...
Hair follicles heal blisters at personal cost
A team of scientists has shown that the healing of skin blisters is driven by hair follicle stem cells, which delay their own development in...
A new model of Alzheimer’s progression
Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia and is characterized by neurodegeneration in regions of the brain involved in memory and learning. Amyloid...
Professor Jim Al-Khalili awarded CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List
Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Distinguished Chair in physics at the University of Surrey as well as a university chair in public...
Boundary of heliosphere mapped for the first time
Using data from NASA's IBEX satellite, scientists created the first-ever 3D map of the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space Los Alamos, N.M.,...
Brain capillary structures show a correlation with their neuron structures
Drs. Itokawa, Mizutani and colleagues performed microtomography experiments the BL20XU beamline of the SPring-8 synchrotron radiation facility and found that brain capillary structures show a...
One step towards a daily-use deep UV light source for sterilization and disinfection
Researchers construct a gallium nitride optical microcavity with high reflectivity distributed Bragg reflectors to double the frequency of incoming light, which may be utilized for...
NUS engineers devise novel approach to wirelessly power wearable devices
Researchers successfully demonstrated the use of the human body as a medium for transmitting and harvesting energy to power wearables Advancements in wearable technology are...
New program fuels Canada’s sustainable energy critical skills training and research
A new national research and training program will help to jumpstart the development of greener and more resilient energy grids--the networks that deliver our power--...
Improving dialysis through design
Interdisciplinary team finds better way to design clot-prone grafts currently used for dialysis People with end-stage renal disease often undergo hemodialysis, a life-sustaining blood-filtering treatment....
Trions exhibit novel characteristics in moiré superlattices
New physics revealed by UC Riverside-led research could improve understanding of moiré superlattices RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- When two similar atomic layers with mismatching lattice constants...
Study presents new species of bizarre, extinct lizard previously misidentified as a bird
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- An international research team has described a new species of Oculudentavis, providing further evidence that the animal first identified as a hummingbird-sized...
Plant-based diet protects from hypertension, preeclampsia
A plant-based diet appears to afford significant protection to rats bred to become hypertensive on a high-salt diet, scientists report. When the rats become pregnant,...