Ants or plants? Evolutionary diversification factors of aphids
Credit: Yoshiyuki Matsumoto of Shinshu University, Japan One of the major objectives in biology is to understand the factors and mechanisms that have led to...
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New protocol identifies fascinating quantum states
Method can be directly applied in existing experimental platformsCredit: IQOQI Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch Nowadays, modern quantum simulators offer a wide range of possibilities to prepare and...
Light driven proton pump in distant relative
Unique protein acts as an inward proton pump in a distant microbial relativeCredit: © 2020 IDKlab CC BY-SA 4.0 Researchers investigated the group of microorganisms...
Extra-tropical Cyclone Harold caught by NASA’s Terra Satellite
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Southern Pacific Ocean and captured a visible...
Ion channel VRAC enhances immune response against viruses
Ion channel VRAC transports the messenger substance cGAMP from cell to cellCredit: Rosa Planells-Cases VRAC/LRRC8 chloride channels do not only play a decisive role in...
Should infants be separated from COVID-19-positive mothers?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 9, 2020--In a new commentary, Alison Stuebe, MD, President of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine,...
Piercing the dark birthplaces of massive stars with Webb
Credit: Credits: NASA, JPL-Caltech, and S.V Ramirez (NExSCI/Caltech) High-mass stars, which are eight or more times the mass of our Sun, live hard and die...
Construction of sintering resistant Pt based catalyst based on ‘composite energy well’ model
Credit: ©Science China Press Nano-catalysts usually have higher catalytic activity than traditional bulk catalysts. And it is widely acknowledged that the smaller the particle size...
Single-electron pumping in a ZnO single-nanobelt transistor
Credit: ©Science China Press Single electron pumping devices with high efficiency and controllability at room temperature play an essential role in implement spin-based quantum computing...
A new strategy to create 2D magnetic order
Credit: ©Science China Press Grain boundaries, which are consist of periodic arrangement of structural units and generally recognized as a two-dimensional "phase", can exhibit novel...
FDA approves COVID-19 innovations; Ohio State Medical Center to share nationwide
Credit: The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center The Food and Drug Administration has approved solutions created by scientists at The Ohio State University Wexner...
Torquato research links elastodynamic and electromagnetic wave phenomena
Credit: C. Todd Reichart, Princeton University Department of Chemistry Imagine the advances to predictive modeling if you could infer something about how light amplifies colors...
Development of new photovoltaic commercialization technology
The cause for efficiency degradation in an actual operating environment has been identified, with proposal of material processing method for improving performance stabilityCredit: DGIST A...
Surgeons develop operation-triage plan to reduce OR volume during COVID-19 pandemic
Journal of the American College of Surgeons article describes 'early and aggressive' actions that were taken to ensure enough hospital resources remain availableCredit: American College...
Large majority of Washington state’s heroin users want to reduce use
Syringe programs helping during COVID-19 crisisCredit: Photo courtesy of the Snohomish syringe services program A new survey of people who inject illicit drugs in the...
