Devi mangiare! Why culture may be contributing to disordered eating among women
Credit: UniSA "You have to eat!" It's a sentiment that illustrates how central food is to Italian culture, but the woman who uttered these words...
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How cigarette butts can be recycled into bricks: a step-by-step plan
New plan outlines the practical steps needed to bring brickmaking and waste management industries together, to tackle the global problem of cigarette butt pollutionCredit: RMIT...
SwRI scientist searches for stellar phosphorus to find potentially habitable exoplanets
Stellar chemical compositions used as proxy for potentially habitable systemsCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech SAN ANTONIO -- Sept. 16, 2020 -- A Southwest Research Institute scientist has identified...
Coconut rhinoceros beetle makes unexpected ‘host shift’ to Guam’s cycad trees
Invasive beetle could lead to local extinction of the region's only native gymnospermCredit: University of Guam Western Pacific Tropical Research Center Researchers at the Western...
Scientists studied color change from green to red in the fluorescent protein
Credit: Dmitry A. Gorbachev et al/Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences Scientists from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (IBCh...
Schöninger spears – mankind’s earliest wooden weapons
DFG funds research project of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony State Service for Cultural HeritageCredit: Werner Schoch The Lower Saxony State Service...
New targets for melanoma treatment
Credit: (C) iStock A collaborative study led by Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute and the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute (ONJCRI) has uncovered new markers...
Why do hospital germs bind more strongly to certain surfaces than to others?
Credit: Saarland University These results from studies in both experimental and theoretical physics may help to improve antibacterial surfaces. The research work was recently published...
EDF, NASA, DRI, Google announce web application to transform water management in the West
OpenET will provide easily accessible satellite-based water data to help build a resilient future for agricultureCredit: OpenET (SACRAMENTO, CA -- Sept. 15, 2020) The Environmental...
Reprogramming brain cells enables flexible decision-making
Credit: Frank Brüderli; Universität Zürich Humans, like other animals, have the ability to constantly adapt to new situations. Researchers at the Brain Research Institute of...
Great progress for electronic gadgets of the future
Researchers discover new way of controlling conductivity of materials at the nanoscaleCredit: Geir Mogen, NTNU Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)...
Scientists awarded $52 million NIH grant to study schizophrenia cause and effect
UCLA's Carrie Bearden will lead a research team alongside colleagues at Yale and Zucker School of Medicine.Credit: UCLA Health UCLA researchers and their colleagues from...
Climate crisis ages fish, amphibians and reptiles
Credit: Adeline Marcos Climatic conditions are changing at an unprecedented rate, affecting mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles, ectothermic animals that are unable to generate their...
Reaching 90% PL quantum yield in 1D metal halide by pressure-suppressed nonradiative loss
Credit: Xujie Lü Low-dimensional perovskite-related metal halides have emerged as a new class of light-emitting materials with tunable broadband emission from self-trapped excitons (STEs). Although...
Lessons from coronavirus surveillance testing in Seattle-area homeless shelters
Results suggest a need to routinely test homeless populations, including those who are asymptomatic, in non-clinic settings.Credit: Taylor Johnson A study of SARS-CoV-2 at 14...
