Steering new mobility in the right direction
Matching the speed of technology with the speed of local governmentCredit: Cait McCusker Advances in transportation technology -- e-scooters and bike share, Lyft & Uber,...
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Artificial intelligence makes blurry faces look more than 60 times sharper
This AI turns even the blurriest photo into realistic computer-generated faces in HDCredit: Rudin lab DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have developed an AI...
Transient increase in blood pressure promotes some blood vessel growth
Finding has implications for combating tumor growth and diseaseCredit: Daisuke Yoshino, TUAT Blood vessels are the body's transportation system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to cells...
Water bacteria have a green thumb
Microbiologists at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) identify a new type of planktomycete that produces bioactive natural productsCredit: Manfred Rohde/HZI Braunschweig The sheer...
Statistical analyses of plant metabolites allow solid testing of plant defense theories
High-throughput analyses of small substances in Nicotiana attenuata reveal that plants re-organize their metabolism to produce highly-specific defense metabolites after insect attackCredit: Danny Kessler, Max...
Silicones may lead to cell death
Credit: Radboud University Silicone molecules from breast implants can initiate processes in human cells that lead to cell death. Researchers from Radboud University have demonstrated...
Unlocking PNA’s superpowers for self-assembling nanostructures
Credit: College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method for self-assembling nanostructures with gamma-modified peptide nucleic acid (γPNA),...
Minimizing thermal conductivity of crystalline material with optimal nanostructure
Towards application of materials informatics to development of thermal functional materialsCredit: The University of Tokyo Professor Junichiro Shiomi et al. from The University of Tokyo...
Scientists report heavy ion transfer in charged vdW cluster for the first time
Credit: IMP Since the discovery of the double helix form of DNA and the hypothesis of DNA mutation induced by proton transfer more than 50...
Plant cell gatekeepers’ diversity could be key to better crops
Credit: Annamaria De Rosa, CoETP Scientists have shed new light on how the network of gatekeepers that controls the traffic in and out of plant...
Half the earth relatively intact from global human influence
Study presents clear opportunities to conserve what remainsCredit: Jason Riggio/UC Davis Roughly half of Earth's ice-free land remains without significant human influence, according to a...
Self-driving cars that recognize free space can better detect objects
What a perception system doesn't see can help it understand what it seesCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--It's important that self-driving cars quickly detect other cars...
Retinitis pigmentosa research probes role of the enzyme DHDDS in this genetic disease
Results show that retinitis pigmentosa 59 may not be a congenital disorder of glycosylation, as was long assumedCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Researchers who made...
Grant to support research into grape downy mildew
Credit: Kaitlin Gold, Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - The climate in New York state is ideal for cultivating many grape varieties but also makes the...
UNC-Chapel Hill researchers create new type of COVID-19 antibody test
Scientists created a test that pinpoints human antibodies specific to a unique part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. The test can help document COVID-19 infections,...