NASA finds an eye and a giant ‘tail’ in Typhoon Hagupit
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of Typhoon Hagupit in...
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Chlamydia: Greedy for glutamine
Credit: Chair of Microbiology / University of Wuerzburg Chlamydia are bacteria that cause venereal diseases. In humans, they can only survive if they enter the...
Semiconductor manufacturing techniques employed for new gamma-ray detector
Credit: NASA/Theresa Johnson NASA astrophysicists and engineers are adapting detectors used by earthbound supercolliders and creating them the same way electronics companies produce all modern...
AI & single-cell genomics
New software predicts cell fateCredit: Helmholtz Zentrum München Traditional single-cell sequencing methods help to reveal insights about cellular differences and functions - but they do...
Roadmap to reducing colorectal cancer deaths
More convenient, accurate and lower cost tests the path to saving more livesCredit: Rush Production Group Fewer people would die of colorectal cancer if health...
Racial discrimination linked to suicide
Two reports: Pain of discrimination can be greater than will to live; reframing can helpCredit: University of Houston In this age of racial reckoning, new...
ALMA captures stirred-up planet factory
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Huang and S. Andrews; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello Planet-forming environments can be much more complex and chaotic than previously expected. This is...
Open source for a global ‘energiewende’
Open-access software, benchmarks and data records: The Energy Computing Initiative of the Helmholtz Association supports the climate-friendly transformation of energy systemsCredit: (Composite photo: KIT Bildstelle;...
Germany-wide rainfall measurements by utilizing the mobile network
Rainfall maps with high temporal resolution derived from the attenuation of commercial microwave links (CMLs) by precipitationCredit: (Graphics: Graf et al., 2020) Whether in flood...
Analyzing pros and cons of two composite manufacturing methods
Credit: P. H. Geubelle, Grainger Engineering Airplane wings, wind turbine blades, and other large parts are typically created using bulk polymerization in composite manufacturing facilities....
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences signs with Pensoft to move Silva Balcanica journal to ARPHA
The first 2020 issue of the journal by the Academy's Forest Research Institute is already online on a brand new and user-friendly websiteCredit: Dr. V....
Study calls for urgent plan to manage invasive weed which threatens livelihoods in Africa
CABI scientists have conducted research which is calling for an urgent integrated management strategy, including biological control, to fight the invasive weed Mimosa diplotricha which...
Why is stroke so deadly for people of African descent?
Credit: UVA Health African-Americans have up to three times the risk of dying from strokes as people of European descent, yet there has been little...
How many people are now immune to SARS-CoV-2?
Credit: LEOSS.sero-survey Who has overcome an infection with the virus without noticing, and how many people have already produced protective antibodies against the new coronavirus?...
The outlook is encouraging: Researchers evaluate a pipeline of clinical trials
A research team, including Parkinson's community patients and carers, has identified and analyzed 145 registered clinical trialsCredit: ClinicalTrials.gov Amsterdam, NL, August 3, 2020 - A...