Catalyst opens door to more efficient, environmentally friendly ethylene production
Credit: Fanxing Li, NC State University A research team led by North Carolina State University has engineered a new catalyst that can more efficiently convert...
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Dramatic loss of food plants for insects
Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Zurich investigated the 100-year development in the canton of ZurichCredit: © Foto: Eliane Furrer-Abrahamczyk Just a few weeks...
Rice wins fed grant to advance sickle cell disease therapy
Bioengineer Gang Bao studies genome-editing outcomes to enable a future clinical trialCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (April 24, 2020) - A Rice University lab...
Holistic approach best for tackling nonmedical drug use, study finds
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Health practitioners are constantly developing new ways to help those with drug and alcohol addictions wean...
Quantum electrodynamics experiment
Researchers see application in future quantum technologiesCredit: © Cellule The fundamental laws of physics are based on symmetries that, among other things, determine the interactions...
Bose-Einstein condensate: Magnetic particles behave repulsively
New findings by physicists may be relevant for future information technologies; study in Nature CommunicationsCredit: I. V. Borisenko et al./ Nature Communications Data transmission that...
An eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar discovered by FAST
Credit: ESA/Hubble Using the data obtained by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. PAN Zhichen and Prof. LI...
Assessing El Niño’s impact on fisheries and aquaculture around the world
Credit: © IRD - Arnaud Bertrand While considerable resources are invested in seasonal forecasts and early-warning systems for food security, not enough is known about...
Fueling the world sustainably: Synthesizing ammonia using less energy
Credit: Irasutoya, Michikazu Hara Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have developed an improved catalyst by taking the common dehydrating agent calcium hydride...
Palaeontologists reveal ‘the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth
Credit: Artwork by Davide Bonadonna 100 million years ago, ferocious predators, including flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters, made the Sahara the most dangerous place on...
A ‘corset’ for the enzyme structure
University of Bonn: Structure of biocatalysts depends on whether they are in cells or in the test tubeCredit: © Foto: Hamed Alaei The structure of...
Diverse livelihoods helped resilient Levänluhta people survive a climate disaster
Credit: Anna Wessman A multidisciplinary research group coordinated by the University of Helsinki dated the bones of dozens of Iron Age residents of the Levänluhta...
Training instance segmentation neural network with synthetic datasets for seed phenotyping
Development of an efficient method to accelerate the development of machine learning models for plant phenotypingCredit: Issey Takahashi In the midst of unprecedented climate change...
Brain insulin sensitivity determines body weight and fat distribution
Credit: IDM Just where fat is deposited in the body and to what degree a person may benefit from a lifestyle intervention depends, among other...
Organic heterostructures composed of one- and two-dimensional polymorph
Credit: ©Science China Press Organic heterostructures (OHSs) with high spatial and angular precision are key component of the organic optoelectronics, such as organic photovatic (OPV),...
