Strigolactones increase tolerance to weevils in tobacco plants
In a crosstalk with other plant hormones, these novel plant hormones regulate the resistance to endophytic Trichobaris mucorea larvaeCredit: Anna Schroll A team of researchers...
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Observing ancient neutrinos
Super-Kamiokande gets an upgrade to see neutrinos from ancient supernovaeCredit: © 2020 Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo The...
Energy-efficient design for mmWave-enabled NOMA-UAV networks
Credit: ©Science China Press Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and millimeter-wave (mmWave) are two crucial techniques of 5G to meet the explosive capacity demands. On the...
Social media information can predict a wide range of personality traits and attributes
Findings could bring new technologies to mental health diagnostics and personalized nudgesCredit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) - Wide personality traits and...
Flexible production system enables variety of variants
Engineers at KIT and industrial partners work on the economic production of individualized industrial and consumer goodsCredit: (Graphic: wbk, KIT) From sports shoes to car...
Finding a way to STING tumor growth
UTSW researchers discover a new function of the immune protein STING -- one that could lead to improved immunotherapies to treat cancerCredit: Graphical abstract from...
Lensless light-field imaging through diffuser encoding
Credit: Zewei Cai, Jiawei Chen, Giancarlo Pedrini, Wolfgang Osten, Xiaoli Liu, and Xiang Peng Light-field imaging can detect both spatial and angular information of light...
Wide variations in car seat breathing assessment conducted on premature newborns
UM School of Medicine researchers cite need for clearer guidelines to help hospitals implement consistent safety practicesCredit: NHTSA BALTIMORE, MD (August 24, 2020) - A...
Fossil pollen record suggests vulnerability to mass extinction ahead
Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech Reduced resilience of plant biomes in North America could be setting the stage for the kind of mass extinctions not...
Mechanisms identified to restore myelin sheaths after injury or in multiple sclerosis
Researchers reveal a potential method for treating multiple sclerosis / Theophylline activates histone deacetylase, enabling the reconstruction of myelin sheathsCredit: photo/©: Mert Duman A research...
RNA quality control system goes awry in frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Researchers at Osaka University identify vicious cycle involving RNA exosome that accelerates disease progression in FTLD/ALSCredit: Yuya Kawabe, Kohji Mori Osaka, Japan - Researchers at...
Routing valley exciton emission of a WS2 monolayer via in-plane inversion-symmetry broken PhC slabs
Credit: by Jiajun Wang, Han Li, Yating Ma, Maoxiong Zhao, Wenzhe Liu, Bo Wang, Shiwei Wu, Xiaohan Liu, Lei Shi , Tian Jiang, and Jian...
Birds of a feather flock together, but timing depends on typhoons
Credit: Kiyoaki Ozaki, Yamashina Institute for Ornithology Six black-naped terns -- a coastal seabird found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans -- have given researchers...
The interplay of nonlinearity and topology–nontrivial eigenmodes coupling induced by nonlinearity
Credit: by Shiqi Xia, DarioJuki?, NanWang, DariaSmirnova, LevSmirnov, Liqin Tang, Daohong Song, Alexander Szameit, Daniel Leykam, JingjunXu, Zhigang Chen and Hrvoje Buljan The ?ourishing of...
Investigation of core-shell nanocatalyst AU@CDs for ammonia synthesis
Credit: Author In a paper published in NANO, a team of researchers from Xinjiang University, China have prepared Au@CDs photocatalyst with core-shell structure by combining...