Scientists pinpoint our most distant animal relatives
Credit: NOAA. Scientists from Trinity College Dublin believe they have pinpointed our most distant animal relative in the tree of life and, in doing so,...
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Leipizig University joins new DFG Priority Program on the fluvial anthroposphere
Collaboration between Leipzig University, the University of Tübingen and the Technical University of DarmstadtCredit: Christoph Zielhofer, Leipzig University Floodplains are exceptionally dynamic landscapes and key...
Thermal power nanogenerator created without solid moving parts
Proposed thermal energy harvester may find applications in waste heat recovery, power supplies within microelectromechanical systems, solar power, space power systemsCredit: Shunmin Zhu, Guoyao Yu,...
Millennials and Generation Z are more sustainability-orientated — even when it comes to money, researchers find
Credit: Hiroshima University The younger generations are willing to put their money where their mouth is when it comes to sustainable living. In a study...
Pathways leading to the extramedullary development of tissue-resident lymphocytes found
Credit: BAI Lu Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), teamed up with scientists...
Flood risk uncertainties assessed at the global scale
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - A research team from the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo...
SwRI researchers part of two collaborative teams awarded SAMF grants
Awards totaling $400,000 to fund cancer detection AI, COVID-19 drug researchCredit: SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- March 31, 2021 -- Collaborative teams that include Southwest Research...
UNF biology student awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Credit: University of North Florida Raul Chavarria, a University of North Florida senior majoring in biology with a concentration in ecology and evolution, received the...
New hydrogel that cuts in half recovery time from muscle injuries
It has been designed and tested, at the preclinical level, by the UPV and the CIBER-BBNCredit: UPV A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València...
Choose life: Why patients in China refuse standard treatment for a type of heart attack
Scientists identify numerous variables that predict the treatment decisions of patients with a type of heart attach called ST-elevation myocardial infarctionCredit: Jesse Orrico on Unsplash...
Preconditions for life already 3.5 billion years ago
For the first time, organic molecules could be detected in such old liquids as possible nutrients for primordial microbesCredit: Volker Lueders, GFZ Microbial life already...
Investigating boundary layers in hypersonic flight
The UArizona the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering received more than $3 million in funding in support of their hypersonics research on objects that...
‘Designer’ pore shows selective traffic to and from the cell nucleus
Credit: University of Groningen The nucleus is the headquarters of a cell and molecules constantly move across the nuclear membrane through pores. The transport of...
Heat conduction record with tantalum nitride
How can we remove heat from computer chips as fast as possible? At TU Wien, a metal compound has now been identified that is particularly...
Pancake strategy for the win
Special heat treatment improves novel magnetic materialCredit: HZDR/Juniks Skyrmions - tiny magnetic vortices - are considered promising candidates for tomorrow's information memory devices which may...