Ships’ emissions create measurable regional change in clouds
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory A container ship leaves a trail of white clouds in its wake that can linger in the air for hours. This...
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Bacterial protein fragment kills lung cells in pulmonary fibrosis, study finds
Credit: Image courtesy of Esteban Gabazza/Nature Communications CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A bacterial protein fragment instigates lung tissue death in pulmonary fibrosis, a mysterious disease affecting...
All microgastrinae wasps from around the world finally together in a 1,089-page monograph
Credit: Dr. Jose Fernandez-Triana With 3,000 known species and thousands more left to describe, the wasps of the subfamily Microgastrinae are the single most important...
The physics that drives periodic economic downturns
The physics behind saving, investment and the time-dependent movement of spreading over an area reveals why all good things must come to an endCredit: Adrian...
Small horses got smaller, big tapirs got bigger 47 million years ago
Researchers open a window onto ancient mammal evolution using fossils from GermanyCredit: Oliver Wings/MLU The former coalfield of Geiseltal in Saxony-Anhalt has yielded large numbers...
Antibodies in the brain trigger epilepsy
Study by the University of Bonn may enable new therapies against certain forms of the diseaseCredit: © AG Becker/Uni Bonn Certain forms of epilepsy are...
Engineers model mutations causing drug resistance
Credit: Scott Leighow, Penn State Whether it is a drug-resistant strain of bacteria, or cancer cells that no longer react to the drugs intended to...
Creating stretchable thermoelectric generators
Elastic conducting polymer composites in thermoelectric modulesCredit: Thor Balkhed For the first time, a soft and stretchable organic thermoelectric module has been created that can...
Modeling the human eye in a dish
Researchers from Osaka University develop a novel human stem cell model to study eye development, biology and disease in a dishCredit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan...
Teaching old transition metals new tricks: Chemists activate palladium catalysis by light
New method to produce π-allylpalladium complexes by radical chemistry / study in 'Nature Catalysis'Credit: Frank Glorius In the production of compounds, chemists have the fundamental...
Images reveal how bacteria form communities on the human tongue
Credit: Steven Wilbert and Gary Borisy, The Forsyth Institute Using a recently developed fluorescent imaging technique, researchers in the United States have developed high-resolution maps...
Changing how we think about warm perception
Credit: Lewin/Poulet Lab, MDC A team of neuroscientists at Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) have made an unexpected discovery...
Development of a solid material capable of slowly releasing H2S and NO
Controlled release technology will facilitate medical use of physiologically active gasesCredit: NIMS NIMS has developed a solid material capable of slowly releasing hydrogen sulfide (H2S)...
A molecule that directs neurons
A genetic study identified a molecule that is essential for the correct composition of habenula neurons and their connectivity in the brainCredit: ©Matthias Carl, UniTrento...
First high sensitivity dark matter axion hunting results from south Korea
IBS researchers raising their flag in the axion dark matter fieldCredit: IBS Researchers at the Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research (CAPP), within the...
