Mobile app generates data for the energy management of the future
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz Wind farms and solar plants play a central role in the success of the energy transition and thus in...
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Researchers show how stem cell depletion leads to recurring pregnancy loss
Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC - Depletion of a certain type of stem cell in the womb lining during pregnancy could be a significant factor...
Arctic sponge survival in the extreme deep-sea
Credit: Copyright: NIOZ For the first time, researchers from the SponGES project collected year-round video footage and hydrodynamic data from the mysterious world of a...
How tiny machines become capable of learning
Team of physicists led by Professor Frank Cichos develop learning microswimmersCredit: Photo: Leipzig University, Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences Microswimmers are artificial, self-propelled, microscopic...
Ocean’s mammals at crucial crossroads
Credit: Duke Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab The ocean's mammals are at a crucial crossroads - with some at risk of extinction and others...
New insights into close encounters between albatross and fishing vessels
Credit: Robert Suryan. CORVALLIS, Ore. - A novel analysis of encounters between albatross and commercial fishing vessels across the North Pacific Ocean is giving researchers...
Gearing up nanoscale machines
Researchers at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, in partnership with research teams at University Paul Sabatier, France, are advancing the science of molecular-scale...
Toxin in potatoes evolved from a bitter-tasting compound in tomatoes
Credit: Ryota Akiyama/Masaharu Mizutani A multi-institutional collaboration has revealed that α-solanine, a toxic compound found in potato plants, is a divergent of the bitter-tasting α-tomatine,...
Researchers discover new organic conductor
Credit: NINS/IMS Salts are far more complicated than the food seasoning - they can even act as electrical conductors, shuttling current through systems. Extremely well...
Paraguay’s first satellite deployed from the International Space Station
On March 14, the Paraguayan Space Agency (AEP) deployed a satellite from the International Space Station to help track a tiny parasite that causes Chagas...
‘Break a leg’ not so lucky when it leads to limb deformities
Surgery could be eliminatedCredit: University of South Australia Orthopaedic researchers are one step closer to preventing life-long arm and leg deformities from childhood fractures that...
Starting smoking cessation in hospitalized patients would reduce many premature deaths
Credit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University Smoking cigarettes causes 480,000 premature deaths each year in the United States, due mainly to a two-fold risk of...
Scientists find evidence that novel coronavirus invades the mouth’s cells
Findings point to a role for saliva in SARS-CoV-2 transmissionCredit: Paola Perez, PhD, Warner Lab An international team led by scientists at the National Institutes...
The very first structures in the Universe
Astrophysicists at the Universities of Göttingen and Auckland simulate microscopic clusters from the Big BangCredit: Jens Niemeyer, University of Göttingen The very first moments of...
Biocrude passes the 2,000-hour catalyst stability test
Sewage and food waste biocrude conversion process reaches major milestoneCredit: (Illustration by Michael Perkins | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) RICHLAND, WASH.--A large-scale demonstration converting biocrude...