Improving adhesives for wearable sensors
Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b03305 By conveniently and painlessly collecting data, wearable sensors create many new possibilities for keeping tabs on the...
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Colossal oysters have disappeared from Florida’s ‘most pristine’ coastlines
Credit: University of South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (February 5, 2020)- Hundreds of years ago, colossal oysters were commonplace across much of Florida's northern Gulf Coast....
An end-to-end general framework for automatic diagnosis of manufacturing systems
Credit: ©Science China Press The manufacturing sector is envisioned to be heavily influenced by artificial intelligence-based technologies with the extraordinary increases in computational power and...
New study provides criteria for good infant sleep for the first time
Individual variations large in infant sleepCredit: Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare According to a new study, sleep problems among infants are very common and...
EPA awards SwRI $25 million contract for emissions testing, analytical services
SwRI to develop emissions procedures, equipment for variety of propulsion systemsCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Feb. 5, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)...
Nanoparticles produced from burning coal result in damage to mice lungs
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech scientists have discovered that incredibly small particles of an unusual and highly toxic titanium oxide found in coal smog and...
Excessive sports in case of eating disorders: Psychological mechanisms decoded
Results reveal major implications for prevention and therapy -- publication in Psychotherapy and PsychosomaticsCredit: Photo: Markus Breig, KIT Excessive and obsessive exercise is very harmful...
Scientists document collapse of key Central American forest engineer
Populations of white-lipped peccaries, a 'new world' pig-like species usually found throughout Central American tropical forests, are in freefallCredit: Apolinar Basora PULLMAN, Wash. - White-lipped...
Parkinson’s and the immune system
MedicineCredit: RUB, Kramer The team was thus able to provide further evidence that there are interfaces between the nervous system and immune system. The researchers...
Fiber crossings ahead: Key enzymes affecting nervous system pathway identified
Researchers in Japan identify enzymes essential for normal development of the corticospinal tract and skilled movement in miceCredit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan - Voluntary...
Targeting the cancer microenvironment
Researchers discover a novel checkpoint in immune cells with the potential to treat the cancer cell microenvironmentCredit: © Wolfram Weckwerth The recognition of bacterial infections...
Landscape-level surveys are necessary to address large-scale wildlife losses from poaching
Credit: Tilker/Wilting Widespread poaching in tropical biodiversity hotspots is causing unprecedented declines in wildlife populations, known as defaunation. A new study published in the journal...
CIGSe thin-film solar cells: EU Sharc25 project increases efficiency
Credit: HZB/Ingo Kniest Producing thin-film solar modules requires much less energy than conventional wafer-based Si PV modules, and therefore their energy payback time is much...
Putting a finger on plant stress response
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba show that a zinc finger domain in Arabidopsis protein SIZ1 is essential for transcriptional regulation of genes required for...
Programmed vascular endothelium remodeling using a remote-controlled ‘smart’ platform
Credit: ©Science China Press According to the statistics from World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular disease has become the leading cause of death worldwide, inducing almost...
