Telehealth tools developed for Ebola improve COVID-19 care
Credit: Jackson Smith | UVA Health Telemedicine tools developed at UVA Health to battle Ebola have huge potential in the fight against COVID-19, UVA experts...
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3D-printed nuclear reactor promises faster, more economical path to nuclear energy
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 11, 2020 -- Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National...
Flying foxes in SA exposed to zoonotic viruses
Credit: Photo by Craig Greer University of Adelaide researchers have found that South Australia's population of Grey-headed flying foxes, which took up residence in 2010,...
Who takes the temperature in our cells?
Baker's yeast cells provide information on how organisms could cope with global warming and other altered environmental factorsCredit: (c) TUD/BIOTEC In a world in which...
Mathematics to keep farmers on track
Credit: Kenshi Sakai / TUAT Tokyo, Japan - Scientists at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) used nonlinear mathematical modeling to understand the...
Water loss in northern peatlands threatens to intensify fires, global warming
Boreal climate change study features 59 authorsCredit: Manuel Helbig, McMaster University HAMILTON, ON, May 11, 2020 - A group of 59 international scientists, led by...
Single-cell RNA seq developed to accurately quantify cell-specific drug effects in pancreatic islets
Credit: © Brenda Marquina-Sánchez and Nikolaus Fortelny / CeMM The pancreas is an abdominal organ that produces digestive enzymes as well as hormones that regulate...
Photosynthesis in a droplet
Researchers develop an artificial chloroplastCredit: Max Planck Institute for terrestrial Microbiology/Erb For hundreds of millions of years plants have had the ability to harness carbon...
GCS centres support research to mitigate impact of COVID-19 pandemic
High-performance computing provides essential tools for drug discovery and epidemiological modeling in the fight against the global pandemicCredit: Barbarossa, et al. DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.08.20056630 In December...
Belt and Road’s financiers fall short on biodiversity
Credit: The University of Queensland Most financiers of international infrastructure program, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), are falling short on biodiversity safeguards, according to...
Future information technologies: 3D quantum spin liquid revealed
Credit: HZB They found spin liquid behaviour in 3D, due to a so called hyper hyperkagome lattice. The experimental data fit extremely well to theoretical...
New OA Journal of European Landscapes by Amsterdam University Press launched on ARPHA
By crossing traditional disciplinary and regional borders, this innovative peer-reviewed journal will document landscape studies and project results while inspiring international collaborationCredit: ARPHA Platform and...
Rich interface defects accelerate the electro-oxidation of 5-HMF
Credit: ©Science China Press 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), which is produced by oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), is the crucial precursor for the production of polyethylene 2,5-furandicarboxylate...
Artificial synapses on design
Tiny material differences are crucial for the functional behavior of memristive devicesCredit: Copyright: RWTH Aachen / Peter Winandy Scientists around the world are intensively working...
Material manufacturing from particles takes a giant step forward
A team led by Aalto University has now shown another remarkable property of nanocelluloses: Their strong binding properties to form new materials with any particleCredit:...