How the brain controls the voice
Rhythmic neural the signals determine sounds that bats makeCredit: Julio C. Hechavarria, Goethe University Frankfurt Bats are famous for their sonar-based navigation. They use their...
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Surprise! Ammonia emitted from fertilized paddy fields mostly doesn’t end up in the air
Credit: Jianlin Shen Livestock production and nitrogen fertilizer used in croplands emit lots of ammonia, which is the most abundant alkaline gas in ambient air....
Ammonia has been wrongly missing in portraying air pollution impacts
Credit: Yuepeng Pan Nitrogen is essential for all living things. Synthetic fertilizer, which contains rich reactive nitrogen, has sustained food production and thereby the global...
Antibiotic intercepts building blocks of the bacterial envelope
Research group of the University of Bonn solves a 30-year-old puzzle: The mode of action of daptomycinCredit: © Fabian Grein One of the last arrows...
Heterostructure and Q-factor engineering for low-threshold and persistent nanowire lasing
Credit: by Stefan Skalsky, Yunyan Zhang, Juan Arturo Alanis, H. Aruni Fonseka, Ana M. Sanchez, Huiyun Liu and Patrick Parkinson Over the past decade, the...
New mechanism of optical gain in two-dimensional material requires only extremely low input power
Credit: by Zhen Wang†, Hao Sun†, Qiyao Zhang, Jiabin Feng, Jianxing Zhang, Yongzhuo Li, and Cun-Zheng Ning In a new paper published in Light Science...
New brain disorder discovery
Credit: Robina Weermeijer A study has uncovered a new neurodegenerative disorder in which children experience developmental regression and severe epilepsy. The study, led by the...
Symmetry-enforced three-dimension Dirac phononic crystals
Credit: BY Xiangxi Cai, Liping Ye, Chunyin Qiu, Meng Xiao, Rui Yu, Manzhu Ke, Zhengyou Liu The discovery of new topological states of matter has...
Oncotarget Quizartinib, a selective FLT3 inhibitor, maintains antileukemic activity
Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 11 reported that in this preclinical study, we characterized the binding affinity and selectivity of quizartinib, a small-molecule inhibitor of FLT3,...
Oncotarget Quizartinib, a selective FLT3 inhibitor, maintains antileukemic activity
Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 11 reported that in this preclinical study, we characterized the binding affinity and selectivity of quizartinib, a small-molecule inhibitor of FLT3,...
O-FIB: Far-field-induced near-field breakdown for direct nanowriting in an atmospheric environment
Credit: by Zhen-Ze Li, Lei Wang, Hua Fan, Yan-Hao Yu, Qi-Dai Chen, Saulius Juodkazis and Hong-Bo Sun Lasers are becoming one of the dominant tools...
On-chip single-mode CdS nanowire laser
Credit: by Qingyang Bao, Weijia Li, Peizhen Xu, Ming Zhang, Daoxin Dai, Pan Wang, Xin Guo, and Limin Tong In the past decade, on-chip nanophotonics...
Coronavirus SARS-CoV2: BESSY II data accelerate drug development
At the Berlin X-ray source BESSY II, researchers have decoded the protein responsible for the replication of the corona virus. Analysing the 3D architecture allows...
Water-balloon physics is high-impact science
Credit: Pierre-Thomas Brun Water balloons may seem like a trivial matter. A toy for mischievous kids in summer. But for scientists, the behavior of balls...
Reanalysis of global amphibian crisis study finds important flaws
A reanalysis of a global amphibian disease study found the main conclusions lack evidence and are unreproducibleCredit: Photo by Max Lambert Though biodiversity is in...
