Thermal siphon effect: heat flows from low temperature to high temperature
Credit: ©Science China Press Heat energy spontaneously goes from higher temperature to lower temperature. However, recently, a team from China and the USA (Kezhao Xiong...
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Light in a new light
Creating different kinds of light with manipulable quantum propertiesCredit: Elsa Hahne, LSU In a paper published today in Nature's NPJ Quantum Information, Omar Magaña-Loaiza, assistant...
NASA Satellite finds Karen holding onto tropical storm status
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra Satellite provides a variety of data on tropical cyclones including cloud heights...
NASA data stares into the eye of powerful hurricane Lorenzo
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Satellite data has confirmed that Lorenzo is a major hurricane in the eastern...
Physicists found weak spots in ceramic/graphene composites
Physicists found out the structures in nanomaterials made of ceramic and graphene plates, in which cracks appear most frequentlyCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University...
Simulations characterize turbulence caused by common connection for dialysis
A new model incorporating the shape changes of veins and the arteriovenous grafts connecting to them shows much of the blood turbulence can be mitigated...
Harmful metals found in vapors from tank-style electronic cigarettes
UC Riverside study analyzed six popular e-cigarette tanks and their atomizersCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team of scientists at the University...
Study shows nearly half of cancer patients who enter a comprehensive tobacco treatment program quit smoking
Quitlines and other minimal interventions average less than 20% smoking abstinence ratesCredit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON -- In the largest smoking cessation study of...
Cellular aging is linked to structural changes in the brain
Telomeres on human chromosomes change together with brain structureCredit: MPI CBS Telomeres are protective caps at the ends of chromosomes that become shorter with each...
Analyses of newborn babies’ head odors suggest importance in facilitating bonding
Credit: Kobe University A team led by Kobe University Professor Mamiko Ozaki (Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science) has become the first to identify...
Cancer tumours form surprising connections with healthy brain cells
Healthy neurons form synapses with aggressive brain cancer cells that stimulate the growth and proliferation of brain cancer; anti-epileptic medicine can curb the dangerous communication...
Genetic markers linked to the start of symptoms of Parkinson’s disease
New therapeutic targetsCredit: University of Barcelona - UBNeuro Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona (UBNeuro), Hospital Clínic and the August...
New design of bioactive peptide nanofibers keeping both temperature reversibility and stiffness control
Credit: Takahiro Muraoka, TUAT A collaboration mainly led by scientists from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) in Japan has developed a new method...
$3M grant to create cybersecurity modeled after human body
University of Arizona electrical and computer engineering researchers are training a future cybersecurity workforce and creating bioinspired methods for keeping computers secureCredit: University of Arizona...
Men with prostate cancer can be spared radiotherapy after surgery
ESMO 2019 Congress, Sept. 27 - Oct. 1, Barcelona, SpainCredit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Barcelona, Spain, 27 September 2019 - Men with prostate...
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