New insight into how brain neurons influence choices
Effort could aid study of addiction, eating disorders, other neuropsychiatric conditions that involve faulty decision-makingCredit: Mike Worful When you are faced with a choice --...
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Immunotherapy side effect could be a positive sign for kidney cancer patients
Patients who developed acute interstitial nephritis, an autoimmune reaction, respond to immune checkpoint inhibitor drugsCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Nov. 2, 2020 -...
Printing plastic webs to protect the cellphone screens of the future
A spider web-inspired solution made possible using 3D printingCredit: Shibo Zou Follow the unbreakable bouncing phone! A Polytechnique Montréal team recently demonstrated that a fabric...
To predict how crops cope with changing climate, 30 years of experiments simulate future
Credit: University of Illinois Five years ago, the United Nations committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030. Since then, however,...
Malaria test as simple as a bandage
Microneedle-based diagnostic a new platform for many diseases, blood draw not requiredCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 2, 2020) - Testing for malaria could...
New study finds earliest evidence for mammal social behavior
Credit: Misaki Ouchida A new study led by paleontologists at the University of Washington and its Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture indicates that...
Analyzing biological and chemical damage on 20th-century construction materials
The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has used spectroscopy to explore how the environment impacts on the degradation of new stone construction materialsCredit: Iratxe Ibarrondo...
What digital revolution? Hundreds of millions of farmers still cannot get online
In the first assessment of its kind, researchers found that small farmers across the globe have woefully low access to mobile networks and the internet....
A versatile photodetector assisted by photovoltaic and bolometric effects
Credit: by Wei Jiang, Tan Zheng, Binmin Wu, Hanxue Jiao, Xudong Wang, Yan Chen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Meng Peng, Hailu Wang, Tie Lin, Hong Shen, Jun...
Cockroaches and lizards inspire new robot developed by Ben-Gurion University researcher
Credit: credit: Ben-Gurion University BEER-SHEVA, Israel...November 2, 2020 - A new high-speed amphibious robot inspired by the movements of cockroaches and lizards, developed by Ben-Gurion...
Light-modulated graphene-organic heterojunction transistors realizing photocurrent logic changes
Credit: by Jiayue Han, Meiyu He, Ming Yang, Qi Han, Fang Wang, Fang Zhong, Mengjian Xu, Qing Li, He Zhu, Chongxin Shan, Weida Hu, Xiaoqing...
Mobile phones help Americans encounter more diverse news
Thanks largely to mobile phones, Americans are reading news from a wider range of sources, though many do not read any online news at all.Credit:...
Rotation of a molecule as an “internal clock”
Measuring ultrafast reactionsCredit: MPI for Nuclear Physics Using a new method, physicists at the Heidelberg Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have investigated the ultrafast...
Silk road contains genomic resources for improving apples
Researchers have assembled full genomes for domesticated apple and two of its wild progenitors, giving plant breeders detailed information for improving the quality, yield and...
New analysis method can lead to better cancer drugs
Credit: Ulf Sirborn. While proteins on the surface of cells are the targets for most drugs, refined methods are needed to analyse how these membrane...