Even natural products can be harmful for the unborn child
Credit: University of Bern Plant products ingested by pregnant women through their diet are broken down by the intestinal microbiota into chemical substances, some of...
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Worth their salt: Skoltech and MIPT researchers report first case of hexagonal NaCl
Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Skoltech and MIPT scientists have predicted and then experimentally confirmed the existence of exotic hexagonal thin films of NaCl on...
The wildlife trade encompasses all major branches of the biological tree of life
Credit: Marco Antonio de Freitas. Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of global public health issues and...
Exotic properties of helium-methane compounds inside giant planets
Credit: ©Science China Press National Key R&D Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of...
Cichlid fish loves exaggerated shells
Scientists dissect the complex choices of animalsCredit: MPI of Animal Behavior/ Jordan Lab What is important when you choose a home? Space, security, light -...
Synthesis of prebiotic peptides gives clues to the origin of life on Earth
A paper by Kazan Federal University appeared in Amino AcidsCredit: Kazan Federal University Coordination Compounds Lab of Kazan Federal University started researching prebiotic peptide synthesis...
Performing optical logic operations by a diffractive neural network
Credit: by Chao Qian, Xiao Lin, Xiaobin Lin, Jian Xu, Yang Sun, Erping Li, Baile Zhang, and Hongsheng Chen Optical logical operations have sparked major...
Smart machine maintenance: New AI system also detects unknown faults
Credit: Oliver Dietze A new maintenance system is helping to make sensors smart. A research team led by Professor Andreas Schütze of Saarland University is...
Towards visible-wavelength passively mode-locked lasers in all-fibre format
Credit: by Jinhai Zou, Chuchu Dong, Hongjian Wang, Tuanjie Du, and Zhengqian Luo Mode-locked fibre lasers generating ultrashort pulses with the advantages of robustness, compactness...
Sugar turns brown algae into good carbon stores
Only highly specialized bacteria can carry out the degradation of brown algae with the help of more than hundred enzymesCredit: Max Planck Institute for Marine...
Chirality-assisted lateral momentum transfer for bidirectional enantioselective separation
Credit: by Cheng-Wei Qiu Light carrying photon momentum can push and pull microparticles through momentum exchange. This momentum exchange progress generates optical forces, either attracts...
Directed protein evolution with CRISPR-Cas9
New area of application for gene scissors: Optimized proteins for biomedical researchCredit: MPI of Neurobiology / Arne Fabritius "Directed evolution" is the process by which...
Evidence shows cloth masks may help against COVID-19
Particularly those with several layers of cotton clothCredit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (May 22, 2020) - The evidence shows that cloth masks, particularly those with...
High-security identification that cannot be counterfeited
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba create millimeter-size chips with unique color patterns that cannot be forgedCredit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan - Try whispering...
COVID-19 should be treated as a thrombotic disease, Brazilian pulmonologist argues
Dr. Elnara Negri, who works in São Paulo City at the largest hospital complex in Latin America, advocates the use of the anti-coagulant drug heparin...
