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Credit: (Picture: Team Markus Sauer / University of Wuerzburg) With high-resolution microscopy, it is theoretically possible to image cell structures with a resolution of a...

Soy and wheat proteins helpful for building aging muscles, but not as potent as animal protein

Credit: Photo credit: Anita Bean On a gram for gram basis, animal proteins are more effective than plant proteins in supporting the maintenance of skeletal...

For cleaner air, water, and soil

Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski The air around us is still getting more and more polluted. No wonder many scientists strive to find a way...

A chemical cocktail of air pollution in Beijing, China during COVID-19 outbreak

Credit: Hao Li The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreads rapidly around the world, and has limited people's outdoor activities substantially. Air quality is therefore expected...

On-chip spin-Hall nanograting for simultaneously detecting phase and polarization singularities

Credit: Fu Feng, Guangyuan Si, Changjun Min, Xiaocong Yuan, Michael Somekh Optical singularities are key elements in modern optics and have been widely researched. In...

Super-fast AI system installed at KIT

One of the most powerful AI computer systems in Europe now supports scientists in solving humanity's problemsCredit: Photo: Simon Raffeiner / SCC Artificial intelligence (AI)...

Engineers use electricity to clean up toxic water

Powerful electrochemical process destroys water contaminants, such as pesticidesCredit: Julia Ciarlini Jungers Soares, University of Sydney A team of engineers may be one step closer...

Princeton chemists resolve origin of perovskite instability

The source of thermodynamic instability found in "rattling" behaviorCredit: Figure by Daniel Straus Researchers in the Cava Group at the Princeton University Department of Chemistry...

UC Riverside discovers first effective treatment for citrus-destroying disease

New license agreement commercializes innovative, safe technologyCredit: UCR UC Riverside scientists have found the first substance capable of controlling Citrus Greening Disease, which has devastated...

New study sparks fresh call for seagrass preservation

An increase in carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to 5 million cars a year has been caused by the loss of seagrass meadows around the Australian...

Microplastic pollution harms lobster larvae, study finds

Microplastic fibers in the ocean impact larval lobsters at each stage of their developmentCredit: Madelyn Woods Microplastic fiber pollution in the ocean impacts larval lobsters...

Nematode has potential to reduce cotton yields by 50 percent

Credit: Kathy Lawrence The reniform nematode is one of the most commonly found pests of cotton, with the ability to cause severe economic damage. In...

Group genomics drive aggression in honey bees

Credit: Photo by Manuel A. Giannoni-Guzman CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers often study the genomes of individual organisms to try to tease out the relationship between...

Running in Tarahumara culture

Long distance runnersCredit: Lieberman, Daniel E. "Running in Tarahumara (Rarámuri) Culture," just published in Current Anthropology (v61, no. 3 (June 2020): 356-379) studies the Tarahumara...

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