Missing component of innate immune signaling identified
Credit: © Ella Maru Studio / CeMM How cells recognize pathogens and alert the immune system swiftly is a fundamental process of high importance for...
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New map reveals distrust in health expertise is winning hearts and minds online
Researchers warn scientists are fighting health misinformation in the wrong placeCredit: Neil Johnson WASHINGTON (May 13, 2020)--Communities on Facebook that distrust establishment health guidance are...
Artificial intelligence helps researchers up-cycle waste carbon
A collaboration between University of Toronto Engineering and Carnegie Mellon University has produced a record-setting catalyst for CO2-to-ethylene conversionCredit: Daria Perevezentsev / University of Toronto...
Pofatu: A new database for geochemical ‘fingerprints’ of artefacts
The Pofatu Database is the first comprehensive open-access compilation of geochemical analyses and contextual information for archaeological sources and artefacts facilitating new insights into ancient...
A new concept of designing photocatalytic systems with reversed configurations
Credit: ©Science China Press Photocatalytic water splitting is one of the most promising ways to convert solar energy into the chemical one. Generally, the activity...
Roadmap for battery research in Europe
The European research initiative BATTERY 2030+ presents goals -- research platform CELEST with KIT, Ulm University, and ZSW participatesCredit: Daniel Messling, KIT To develop tomorrow's...
Effects of internet CBT for health anxiety on par with face-to-face treatment
Credit: Karolinska Institutet Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have compared two ways of delivering cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT, to treat people with health anxiety,...
Genes of high temperature superconductivity expressed in 3D materials
Credit: ©Science China Press The problems of high temperature superconductor (HTSC) are important for the physics community and even the whole science area. Ever since...
A deep look into the gut’s hormones
Credit: Joep Beumer, copyright Hubrecht Institute Researchers from the Hubrecht Institute and Utrecht University generated an in-depth description of the human hormone-producing cells of the...
Speeding up long-range coherent LiDAR
Credit: Johann Riemensberger (EPFL) Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) comprised an array of techniques using laser light to measure distances by multiplying the time delay...
Technology innovation for neurology
Brain signal measurement using printed tattoo electrodesCredit: © Greco - TU Graz In 2015 Francesco Greco, head of the Laboratory of Applied Materials for Printed...
Room-temperature superionic conduction achieved using pseudorotation of hydride complexes
Credit: Shigeyuki Takagi There is currently a strong demand to replace organic liquid electrolytes used in conventional rechargeable batteries, with solid-state ionic conductors which will...
Organic small molecule hole-transporting layers toward efficient p-i-n perovskite solar cells
Credit: ©Science China Press Perovskite solar cells (pero-SCs) show great potential in the photoelectric fields due to high power conversion efficiency (PCE), simple processing technology,...
Uncovering how ‘dark matter’ regions of the genome affect inflammatory diseases
Promising new drug target for autoimmune and allergic diseases revealedCredit: The Babraham Institute A study led by researchers at the Babraham Institute in collaboration with...
Color of cells a ‘thermometer’ for molecular imbalance, study finds
Non-invasive color analysis of cells could one day be used in diagnostics, a proof-of-concept study has shownCredit: Research co-author Martin Gosnell Quantitative Pty Ptd. An...