Color-changing bandages sense and treat bacterial infections
Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.9b01104 According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global...
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Microplastics from ocean fishing can ‘hide’ in deep sediments
Credit: Yinghui Wang Microplastic pollution in the world's oceans is a growing problem, and most studies of the issue have focused on land-based sources, such...
Scientists find far higher than expected rate of underwater glacial melting
Robotic kayaks were used to track meltwaterCredit: David Sutherland/University of Oregon Tidewater glaciers, the massive rivers of ice that end in the ocean, may be...
Pollination is better in cities than in the countryside
Plants benefit from more bees, especially bumble beesCredit: Henryk Niestrój /Pixabay Flowering plants are better pollinated in urban than in rural areas. This has now...
Organoids (in vitro brains) to study pediatric brain tumors
A large-scale production of in vitro tumors could make it possible to perform large drug screenings to identify new brain cancer drugsCredit: ©AlessioCoser for University...
Fungal decisions can affect climate
Credit: Susan V. Fisk When we think of climate change, we tend to think about greenhouse gases, fossil fuels and pollution. Most of us don't...
Stand Up To Cancer Laura Ziskin Prize awarded to Drs. Leisha A. Emens and Xiang Zhang
Credit: Stand Up To Cancer LOS ANGELES - January 28, 2020-- Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) has awarded the 2020 Laura Ziskin Prize in Translational...
Researchers generalize Fourier’s heat equation, explaining hydrodynamic heat propagatio
Theory is in striking agreement with pioneering experimental results in graphite published last yearCredit: @Michele Simoncelli, EPFL Fourier's well-known heat equation, introduced in 1822, describes...
A better building block for creating new materials
Credit: Felice Macera When chemists or engineers want to make a new type of material, they head to the laboratory and start "cooking." Much like...
Critically injured soldiers have high rates of mental health disorders
New UMass Amherst study found military members with serious brain injuries are at greater riskCredit: UMass Amherst U.S. combat soldiers who suffered a moderate or...
Harrington Seed Destructor kills nearly 100 percent of US agronomic weed seeds in lab study
Credit: Lauren Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - In the battle against herbicide-resistant weeds, farmers are increasingly eager to add non-chemical control methods to...
Bad to the bone: Specific gut bacterium impairs normal skeletal growth and maturation
Segmented filamentous bacteria, a specific bacterium within the healthy gut microbiome, significantly influences the immune system to impair bone mass accrual during post-pubertal skeletal developmentCredit:...
Bad to the bone: Specific gut bacterium impairs normal skeletal growth and maturation
Segmented filamentous bacteria, a specific bacterium within the healthy gut microbiome, significantly influences the immune system to impair bone mass accrual during post-pubertal skeletal developmentCredit:...
Concordian examines the link between cognition and hearing or vision loss
Social factors do not explain how they are connected, new research showsCredit: Concordia University There is a long-established and widely recognized link between declines in...
What’s in your water?
Researchers identify new toxic byproducts of disinfecting drinking waterCredit: Marissa Lanterman/Johns Hopkins University Mixing drinking water with chlorine, the United States' most common method of...
