The state of coral reefs in the Solomon Islands
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation releases their latest findings from the largest coral reef survey and mapping expedition in historyCredit: © Khaled bin...
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NASA-NOAA satellite animation shows the end of Tropical Cyclone Boris
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite imagery provided a look at the end of the...
Bleaching affects aquarium corals, too
Credit: Ciemon Caballes. A new study illustrates the potential impact of recurrent heatwaves on coral species collected by the Australian aquarium coral industry. The study's...
Laser-welded sugar: Sweet way to 3D-print blood vessels
Intricate sugar networks dissolve to create pathways for blood in lab-grown tissuesCredit: Photo by Brandon Martin/Rice University HOUSTON -- (June 29, 2020) -- Powdered sugar...
Computing collaboration reveals global ripple effect of shifting monsoons
Credit: Moetasim Ashfaq and Adam Malin/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a...
Plasticity may make neurons vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease
Neurons that regularly remodel are more prone to the dysfunctions linked to the disease's onset, a new experimental and computational study findsCredit: J.-P. Roussarie et...
New evidence for how blood clots may form in very ill COVID-19 patients
Credit: Xue-Yan He and David Ng, Egeblad Lab/CSHL, 2020 Scientists have new evidence that overactive neutrophils--a common type of circulating immune cell--may drive the life-threatening...
Rice lab’s bright idea is pure gold
Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodesCredit: Illustration by Longji Cui and Yunxuan Zhu/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 29, 2020)...
Clues to COVID-19 complications come from NET-like inflammatory response
Credit: Xue-Yan He and David Ng, Egeblad Lab/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. SALT LAKE CITY - An overactive defense response may lead to increased blood clotting,...
New research reveals plant control with the power of light
Credit: Leonie-Alexa Koch, Institute of Synthetic Biology, University of Düsseldorf. University of East Anglia scientists have helped find a way to control different plant processes...
Social distancing and dying alone
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (June 29, 2020)- The COVID-19 pandemic has led to drastic changes in how hospitals provide end-of-life care to patients and their...
German federal funding for research on the differentiation of style and topic in text data
German Ministry of Education and Research is funding Sophie Burkhardt to establish a Computer Science junior research group investigating how to independently control the content...
New heart valve could transform open heart surgery for millions of patients globally
Credit: Professor Raimondo Ascione, University of Bristol A new polymeric heart valve with a life span potentially longer than current artificial valves that would also...
Existing drugs can prevent SARS-CoV-2 from hijacking cells
Researchers evaluate how the new coronavirus rewires human proteins for its own replication, and identify several antiviral drugs ready for clinical trialsCredit: Elizabeth Fischer, Miscroscopy...
Anammox bacteria generate energy from wastewater while taking a breath
Credit: © 2020 KAUST A type of anaerobic bacteria responsible for more than 50 percent of nitrogen loss from marine environments has been shown to...