Researchers study genetic outcomes of great gray owl population in four states
Credit: Beth Mendelsohn A University of Wyoming researcher led a study of great gray owls in a four-state region, showing that range discontinuity could lead...
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Solar cells, phone displays and lighting could be transformed by nanocrystal assembly method
Applying a specific level of electric field is a shortcut to near-perfect alignment of the building blocks in vital technologies, including integrated chips and biosensing...
Counterintuitive phase behavior observed in isotopic hydrogen (H2-HD-D2) alloy
Credit: LIU Xiaodi A joint team, while exploring phase diagrams in dense H2-HD-D2 mixtures, has reported a new discovery in which they found counterintuitive effects...
Science snapshots May 2020
Berkeley Lab news: changing forest structures, aging wind plants, fungi food choicesCredit: Vincent Wu/JGI The World's Forests Are Growing Younger Study finds climate change is...
How bacteria fertilize soya
Credit: ETH Zurich / Anne-Greet Bittermann Plants need nitrogen in the form of ammonium if they are to grow. In the case of a great...
Get excited by neural networks
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo (UTokyo-IIS) used...
New method predicts spin dynamics of materials for quantum computing
Universal first-principles approach will accelerate the identification and design of materials for quantum information science and other spintronics applicationsCredit: Xinran Dongfang Researchers at UC Santa...
Wearable sensor may help to assess stress in healthcare workers
Credit: Emma Chapron, University of South Wales A wearable biosensor may help monitor stress experienced by healthcare professionals, according to a study published in Physiological...
$2 million SBIR grant fast-tracks cancer drug platform technology
Credit: Herman O. Sintim/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive blood cancer, is one of the most lethal cancers. More...
The nature of glass-forming liquids is more clear
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Glass is such a common, everyday material that you probably don't think about...
Solving the mysteries of water and air underground
Credit: J.C. Fiola Stand outside and look underneath your feet. There, perhaps under some grass, is the soil. On a dry day, all the spaces...
‘Major gaps’ in understanding how land-use changes affect spread of diseases
Credit: Connor Butler The quest to discover how new diseases - such as Covid-19 - emerge and spread in response to global land-use change driven...
UCI scientists engineer human cells with squid-like transparency
Bioinspired research project a first step toward intrinsically translucent tissueCredit: Atouli Chatterjee / UC Irvine, Calif., June 2, 2020 -- Octopuses, squids and other sea...
Researchers find pronghorn exhibit little genetic variation despite landscape obstacles
Credit: Adele Reinking A University of Wyoming researcher led a study that showed Wyoming pronghorn exhibit little-to-no population genetic differentiation even though their range spans...
New research deepens understanding of Earth’s interaction with the solar wind
Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications As the Earth orbits the sun, it plows through a stream of fast-moving particles that can interfere...
