Essential key to hearing sensitivity discovered
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is shedding light on the biological architecture that lets...
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New 5G switch provides 50 times more energy efficiency than currently exists
Credit: University of Texas RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- As 5G hits the market, new U.S. Army-funded research has developed a radio-frequency switch that is...
New type of coupled electronic-structural waves discovered in magnetite
Credit: Source: Ambra Garlaschelli and MIT An international team of scientists uncovered exotic quantum properties hidden in magnetite, the oldest magnetic material known to mankind....
Controlling artificial cilia with magnetic fields and light
Credit: Jessica A.-C. Liu Researchers from North Carolina State University and Elon University have made artificial cilia, or hair-like structures, that can bend into new...
Triggered by light, a novel way to switch on an enzyme
Biotechnology: Researchers identify enzyme which becomes catalytically active by light; study published in 'Nature Communications'Credit: Steffen L. Drees Enzymes: they are the central drivers for...
Honeybees: Pesticides disrupt nursing behavior and larval development
Unique long-term videos show the bee nursery in the hiveCredit: Paul Siefert/Bee Research Institute Oberursel/Goethe University Frankfurt A newly developed video technique has allowed scientists...
Eye injury sets immune cells on surveillance to protect the lens
The discovery further challenges the accepted scientific dogma that the lens is shut out from the immune protection.Credit: JodiRae DeDreu, researcher in the lab of...
Research highlights immune molecule’s complex role in Huntington’s disease
Credit: Hyeseung Lee/ MIT Picower Institute More than a decade before people with Huntington's disease show symptoms, they can exhibit abnormally high levels of an...
MAVEN maps electric currents around mars that are fundamental to atmospheric loss
Credit: NASA/Goddard/MAVEN/CU Boulder/SVS/Cindy Starr Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of...
USF engineer and biologist unite to fight coronavirus with corona discharge with NSF grant
Credit: University of South Florida TAMPA, Fla. (May 26, 2020)- An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of South Florida has advanced efforts to...
Photoelectron Momentum Microscope for µm-material electronic structure visualization
A new imaging electron analyzer that visualizes the electronic structure of micrometer-scale functional materials in both real space and momentum space is now in operation...
Novel electric impulses relieve the pain
Stimulating the vagus nerve in the ear can help relieving chronic pain. TU Wien and MedUni Vienna have developed novel, sophisticated methods for electric stimulation...
Similar to humans, chimpanzees develop slowly
Chimpanzees need more than five years to acquire key skillsCredit: Tatiana Bortolato, Taï Chimpanzee Project Few species develop as slowly as humans, both in terms...
New method for capturing carbon via root exudates in wild forest
Credit: Naoki Makita Ph.D., Faculty of Science, Shinshu University It is well known that plants use carbon dioxide obtained from the air in photosynthesis to...
Release of 216 SARS-CoV-2 genomes provides insights into transmission cluster in Austria
Credit: CeMM 216 SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences have now been completed and released in the framework of the "Mutational Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Austria" project from...
