Southern Illinois’ Len Small levee likely to fail even if repaired, study says
Credit: Ken Olson, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Alexander County sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, at the southernmost tip...
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Kidney stem cells can be isolated from urine
Publication in Scientific ReportsCredit: J. Adjaye Researchers from the Institute for Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine (ISRM) at the medical faculty of Heinrich Heine...
Fast screening for potential new catalysts
ElectrochemistryCredit: RUB, Marquard It helps to directly ascertain the potential of a possible alloy. The team reports in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition on...
Double X-ray vision helps tuberculosis and osteoporosis research
Combination measurement shows distribution of metals in biological samplesCredit: Credit: Stachnik et al., „Scientific Reports ", DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-58318-7, CC BY 4.0 With an advanced X-ray...
First-of-its-kind hydrogel platform enables on-demand production of medicines, chemicals
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin A team of chemical engineers has developed a new way to produce medicines and...
New quasi-particle discovered: The Pi-ton
Actually they had been looking for something completely different, but they found a previously unknown quasi-particle: A bound state of two electrons, two holes and...
Vulnerability of migrants living with HIV in health care
Credit: Photo by Karin Ledin da Rosa Migrants living with HIV are a particularly vulnerable group in Sweden and Swedish health care, research from the...
Study links high stillbirth rates worldwide to gender inequality
Credit: Daniel Hallen for The University of Saskatchewan. In the first comprehensive study mapping global patterns of stillbirth rates, University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers have...
Unlocking the secret of cell regulation
Researchers at the University of Bonn are developing a new method for elucidating the structure of long ribonucleic acidsCredit: (c) Photo: Barbara Frommann/Uni Bonn Ribonucleic...
Heart muscle cells change their energy source during heart regeneration
Credit: Hessel Honkoop and Fabian Kruse, ©Hubrecht Institute Researchers from the group of Jeroen Bakkers at the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) have found that the muscle...
EU funds 3m project to develop nanodevices against epilepsy and Parkinson’s
Novel nanotechnologies could be used as brain implants, modulating the activity of nerve cells electrochemically and treating neurological diseasesCredit: Photo by Pete Lindforth on Pixabay...
How cells respond appropriately in harsh environments arising from global warming
Discovery of direct osmotic enhancement of MAP kinase phosphorylation by a cytoplasmic sensorCredit: © 2020 IMSUT, The University of Tokyo CC-BY Under severe environmental stresses...
Chitosan-graft-Polyacrylamide tested as inhibitor of hydrate formation
Kazan Federal University and Shahid Beheshti University have published their research in Crystal Growth and Design.Credit: Kazan Federal University Currently, 90% of the hydrocarbon resources...
New thalattosaur species discovered in Southeast Alaska
Gunakadeit joseeae is the most complete thalattosaur ever found in North AmericaCredit: Artwork by Ray Troll ©2020 Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have...
First childhood flu helps explain why virus hits some people harder than others
Researchers also report that travel-related screening for coronavirus will identify less than half of those infectedCredit: Dan Higgins/Courtesy of CDC/Douglas Jordan Why are some people...
