Japanese biologists discover new species of sea worm in the southern ocean
Credit: Naoto Jimi, National Institute of Polar Research, Japan Earlier this year, a team from Japan's National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), National Museum of...
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New way to check the quality of nanomaterials like graphene
Credit: Dr Matt Large, University of Sussex A new way to check nanomaterial quality enters the 'wild frontier' industry Nanomaterial quality matters: not least when...
Seafood study finds plastic in all samples
Credit: University of Queensland A study of five different seafoods has found traces of plastic in every sample tested. Researchers bought oysters, prawns, squid, crabs...
Efficient valves for electron spins
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Researchers at the University of Basel in collaboration with colleagues from Pisa have developed a new concept that...
Quantum materials quest could benefit from graphene that buckles
Cooled graphene mimics effect of enormous magnetic fields that would benefit electronicsCredit: Yuhang Jiang Graphene, an extremely thin two-dimensional layer of the graphite used in...
A quick, cost-effective method to track the spread of COVID-19
Through untreated wastewaterCredit: Warish Ahmed et al., Science of The Total Environment, June 5, 2020 A group of researchers have demonstrated that, from seven methods...
Glass blowing inspires new class of quantum sensors
Credit: Michael Haines Photography When Adelaide glass blower Karen Cunningham made art using diamond and glass she had no idea it would inspire a new...
Flipping a metabolic switch to slow tumor growth
Credit: University of California San Diego The enzyme serine palmitoyl-transferase can be used as a metabolically responsive "switch" that decreases tumor growth, according to a...
Perovskite and organic solar cells rocketed into space
Credit: DLR MORABA For the first time, researchers in Germany sent perovskite and organic solar cells on a rocket into space. The solar cells withstood...
Simpler and faster microscopy system enabling broader biomedical applications
Credit: by Yang Li, Terence T. W. Wong, Junhui Shi, Hsun-Chia Hsu, and Lihong V. Wang Optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) is a powerful imaging tool...
ALMA sees most distant Milky Way look-alike
Galaxy is distorted, appearing as a ring of light in the skyCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Rizzo et al. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA),...
Upcycling plastic waste toward sustainable energy storage
Simple process transforms PET plastic into a nanomaterial for energy storageCredit: Mihri Ozkan & Cengiz Ozkan/UC Riverside What if you could solve two of Earth's...
SMART researchers find new way to make bacteria more sensitive to antibiotics
Study finds that exposing bacteria to hydrogen sulfide can increase antimicrobial sensitivity in bacteria that do not produce H2SCredit: Jessie Choo Hui Ling (SMART AMR)...
Security gap allows eavesdropping on mobile phone calls
Credit: RUB, Marquard Calls via the LTE mobile network, also known as 4G, are encrypted and should therefore be tap-proof. However, researchers from the Horst...
Scientists identify hundreds of drug candidates to treat COVID-19
UC Riverside researchers used a powerful machine-learning approach to screen millions of chemicals to find suitable candidatesCredit: L. Duka. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Scientists at the...