Nature: Don’t hope mature forests to soak up carbon dioxide emissions
Credit: Western Sydney University Globally, forests act as a large carbon sink, absorbing a substantial portion of the anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Whether mature forests will...
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Journey to the center of the Earth
First of its kind experiment uses diamond anvils to simulate the Earth's coreCredit: © 2020 Kelvinsong - CC BY-SA 3.0 In an effort to investigate...
Crohn’s disease: Preserving inflammation-free phases
Early detection of Crohn's disease flare-ups leads to improved therapy optionsCredit: Prof. Dirk Haller / TUM Intestinal stem cell metabolism is facilitated by mitochondria -...
How does sugar drive consumption? Scientists discover gut-brain sugar sensor in mice
Pioneering study points to promising avenues for minimizing sugar cravings and potentially reducing incidence of obesity and diabetesCredit: Hwei-Ee Tan/Zuker lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK...
Impact of donor lymphocyte infusion and intensified conditioning for relapsed/refractory leukemia
Credit: ©Science China Press Patients with acute leukemia who become refractory to initial or re-induction chemotherapy (refractory/relapsed acute leukemia (RRAL)) have poor prognosis, with limited...
New textile could keep you cool in the heat, warm in the cold
Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c02300 Imagine a single garment that could adapt to changing weather conditions, keeping its wearer cool in...
How expectations influence learning
Credit: RUB, Marquard During learning, the brain is a prediction engine that continually makes theories about our environment and accurately registers whether an assumption is...
Additions to resource industry underwater robots can boost ocean discoveries
Remotely operated vehicles used by the oil and gas sector can be enhanced to gather more scientific data, researchers sayCredit: AIMS Underwater robots are regularly...
Bees point to new evolutionary answers
Climate change snapshot in Fijian highlandsCredit: Courtesy James Dorey Evolutionary biology aims to explain how new species arise and evolve to occupy myriad niches -...
NASA finds Tropical Storm Jeruto develop in Southern Indian Ocean
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) The latest tropical cyclone to develop in the Southern Indian Ocean is no threat...
Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago
Credit: Oliver Rudd When you pour a bowl of cereal, you probably aren't considering how humans came to enjoy milk in the first place. But...
T2K results restrict possible values of neutrino CP phase
Published in Nature, the results are a major step forward in the study of difference between matter and antimatterCredit: The T2K Collaboration The T2K Collaboration...
Hot qubits break one of the biggest constraints to practical quantum computers
Credit: Picture: UNSW Sydney Most quantum computers being developed around the world will only work at fractions of a degree above absolute zero. That requires...
Immigrant Japan: understanding modern Japan through the lives and minds of migrants
In a new book, interviews of over 200 migrants in Japan give a glimpse of what life is like for immigrants in the Japanese societyCredit:...
Shedding light on dark traps
Scientists pinpoint origin of defects that sap potential of next gen solar techCredit: OIST/Togo A multi-institutional collaboration, co-led by scientists at the University of Cambridge...
