Layered solar cell technology boosts efficiency, affordability
Credit: Dennis Schroeder / NREL The future's getting brighter for solar power. Researchers from CU Boulder have created a low-cost solar cell with one of...
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Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time
NIH study suggests our brains use distinct firing patterns to store and replay memoriesCredit: Courtesy of Zaghloul lab, NIH/NINDS In a study of epilepsy patients,...
Study: Tuberculosis bacteria trigger cough, facilitating spread
Molecule in bacterial cell wall activates cough-triggering nerves, could lead to new ways to prevent spreadCredit: UTSW DALLAS - March 5, 2020 - The bacteria...
Scientists say it is time to save the red sea’s coral reef
Credit: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg The news in brief: 1) Red Sea corals and especially corals of the Gulf of Aqaba in the northern Red Sea may...
‘Tickling’ an atom to investigate the behavior of materials
Credit: D. Kepaptsoglou, SuperSTEM Scientists and engineers working at the frontier of nanotechnology face huge challenges. When the position of a single atom in a...
Microcensus in bacteria
Bacillus subtilis can determine proportions of different groups within a mixed populationCredit: MPI f. Terrestrial Microbiology/ Bischofs Bacteria can perceive how many they are. They...
Air pollution is one of the world’s most dangerous health risks
Researchers calculate that the effects of air pollution shorten the lives of people around the world by an average of almost three yearsCredit: Lelieveld et...
MacMillan illuminates the micro-environment, creating a new path to cancer drugs
Princeton University's Dave MacMillan led the effort to create a nanoscale map of proteins and their nearest neighbors.Credit: Tamara Reyes-Robles/Merck Exploratory Science Center When corporate...
Scientists develop new method to distinguish freshly made transcripts from old transcripts
Credit: Nicolas Battich, ©Hubrecht Institute Our bodies consist of trillions of cells that all contain the same DNA. Even though the DNA in each cell...
Pesticides increase the risk of schistosomiasis, a tropical disease
UFZ researchers have proven that polluted freshwater bodies favour the intermediate host of the pathogenCredit: @UFZ Schistosomiasis is a severe infectious disease caused by parasitic...
Corn productivity in real time: Satellites, field cameras, and farmers team up
Credit: Image courtesy of Hyungsuk Kimm, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - University of Illinois scientists, with help from members of the Illinois Corn Growers...
Many lyme disease cases go unreported; A new model could help change that
Researchers have drawn on 17 years of data to develop a model that identifies areas in which the tick-borne illness is likely to emergeCredit: US...
ACM publishes new journal on the Internet of Things
New publication chronicles one of the most transformative developments of the 21st centuryCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today published...
Wuhan CT scans reliable for coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnosis, limited for differentiation
Chest CTs have low rate of misdiagnosis and can standardize imaging features and transformation rules for rapid diagnosis, yet modality is limited for identification of...
New laser defense system against autonomous drones developed by Ben-Gurion U. researcher
Light blade system test successfully downs 90% of incendiary balloons infiltrating Israel's border from GazaCredit: Ben-Gurion U. BEER-SHEVA, Israel...March 5, 2020 - A Ben-Gurion University...
