Alaska’s salmon are getting smaller, affecting people and ecosystems
A comprehensive study of four salmon species across all regions of Alaska finds salmon are returning to rivers smaller and younger than in the pastCredit:...
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World record: Plasma accelerator operates right around the clock
Milestone towards first practical applications of this innovative accelerator technologyCredit: DESY, Science Communication Lab A team of researchers at DESY has reached an important milestone...
International project to delve into the mysteries of brain connections
Credit: The University of Texas at Austin Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin will lead an ambitious new project with 10 other U.S....
Researchers work to ensure accurate decoding in fragile quantum states
University of Arizona team advances error correction tech for high-speed quantum computing.Credit: University of Arizona When computers share information with one another, the information gets...
Quest for quantum Internet gets a boost with new technique for making entanglement
Credit: Tomoyuki Horikiri, Yokohama National University Traditional ways of producing entanglements, necessary for the development of any "quantum internet" linking quantum computers, are not very...
Mother bats use baby talk to communicate with their pups
Credit: Michael Stifter When talking to babies, humans slow down their speech, raise their pitch and change the "color" of their voice. This "baby talk,"...
Toward an ultrahigh energy density capacitor
By introducing defects to a common material, Berkeley Lab researchers create a highly efficient capacitor with dramatically increased energy densityCredit: Martin/UC Berkeley Capacitors that rapidly...
Microbes living on air a global phenomenon
Credit: Photo: Belinda Ferrari In their first follow-up to a high-profile 2017 study which showed microbes in Antarctica have a unique ability to essentially live...
Protein influences regeneration of vascular cells
Heart Center of the University Hospital of Bonn investigates how the communication between cells can be regulatedCredit: (c) Herzzentrum UKB Through their basic research, physicians...
Top coma experts develop plan to improve patient outcomes
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Leading coma experts have created an ambitious plan to help doctors better care for comatose patients and answer that...
Out of sync: Ecologists report climate change affecting bee, plant life cycles
In NSF-funded community-wide assessment of data collected from sites around Colorado's Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, bee emergence is advancing with snowmelt timing, but bee phenology...
Improving protein digestibility in sorghum
Credit: KSU sorghum breeding program August 19, 2020 - Sorghum, a common food item in regions of Africa and Asia, has one missing puzzle piece....
Patients with recently discovered antibodies have more severe myasthenia gravis
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University A study of 181 patients at 16 sites across the country who test negative for two antibodies long...
Microbial ecology yields new insights for future shipwreck conservation
Shipwreck harbors a rich spatially structured microbial communityCredit: John McCord, Coastal Studies Institute Shipwrecks act as artificial reefs and provide a substrate and nutrients for...
Migration and dispersal of butterflies have contrasting effect on flight morphology
Credit: Krushnamegh Kunte Butterflies show several different types of movement. They can seasonally migrate long distances over hundreds of kilometres. Alternatively, butterflies also disperse over...