Climate: risks and future strategies in Italy
Credit: Fondazione CMCC It could be worth up to 8% of GDP per capita, exacerbate the differences between north and south, between society's rich and...
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Dino teeth research prove giant predatory dinosaur lived in water
Portsmouth Palaeontologists establish Spinosaurus was a real life 'river monster'Credit: Davide Bonadonna A discovery of more than a thousand dinosaur teeth, by a team of...
Genomic adaptations to a rice-based diet mitigate the risk of obesity and diabetes
Credit: Evolutionary Applications The traditional rice-based diet of some east-Asian population has brought to a number of genomic adaptations that may contribute to mitigating the...
Highly efficient perovskite solar cells with enhanced stability and minimised lead leakage
Credit: City University of Hong Kong While the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PVSCs) - a future of solar cells - has already...
Why is the West Coast sky orange? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2020 -- California wildfires are, unfortunately, nothing new -- but that bright orange sky definitely is. This...
Engineers imitate human hands to make better sensors
Credit: Cheng Laboratory/Ye Qiu An international research team has developed "electronic skin" sensors capable of mimicking the dynamic process of human motion. This work could...
Computational study of famous fossil reveals evolution of locomotion in ‘ruling reptiles’
New modelling of ancient fossil movement reveals important step in the evolution of posture in the ancestors of dinosaurs and crocodilesCredit: Oliver Demuth Scientists from...
NASA sees Wilfred degenerate into a trough
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Former Tropical Storm Wilfred weakened in the Central Atlantic Ocean and NASA-NOAA's Suomi...
Older people have become younger
Physical and cognitive function have improved meaningfully in 30 yearsCredit: Mostphotos, Doug Olson The functional ability of older people is nowadays better when it is...
Technique permits convenient, precise optical imaging of individual proteins
Credit: Graphic by Shireen Dooling Often considered the workhorses of the body, proteins are among the most important biomolecules critical to life processes. They provide...
NASA satellite found Post-Tropical Storm Alpha fizzle over Portugal and Spain
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Former Subtropical Storm Alpha was a short-lived storm that formed and fizzled within...
Awareness of COVID-19 in severe dementia patients
Awareness of the COVID-19 outbreak and resultant depressive tendencies in patients with severe Alzheimer diseaseCredit: Department of Geriatric Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku Tokyo,...
New insights into how the drug pomalidomide fights cancer
Credit: Tokyo Tech Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the white blood cells, and patients diagnosed with this disease commonly die within 5 years. Clinicians...
Bio-based inhibition of gas hydrate formation
Innovative research by Kazan Federal University was publicized in early access in EnergyCredit: Kazan Federal University Copper stearate was used as the basis for this...
HHRI awarded continuation of SRTR contract
The Chronic Disease Research Group (CDRG) of the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI) has renewed its federal contract to operate the Scientific Registry of Transplant...