A webcam is enough to produce a real-time 3-D model of a moving hand
Credit: Oliver Dietze For the first time, the researchers will be presenting the program at stand G75 in hall 27 of the computer fair Cebit,...
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Antioxidants developed by MSU scientists slow down senescence in plants
Credit: Courtesy of Dmitry Kiselevsky Ageing is a complex process involving lots of different mechanisms. One of the main processes on which ageing is based...
Research reveals secret to whale shark hotspots
Credit: MWSRP A study has uncovered the secret to why endangered whale sharks gather on mass at just a handful of locations around the world....
How stem cells move
Credit: Newcastle University, UK Scientists from Newcastle University have shown that human embryonic stem cells move by travelling back and forth in a line, much...
First public forecasts from ViEWS, a political Violence Early-Warning System
Credit: ViEWS, Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden The challenges of preventing, mitigating, and adapting to largescale political violence are daunting, particularly...
Bees and the thought of naught
Credit: © Scarlett Howard & Aurore Avarguès-Weber Though some vertebrates had already been shown to master complex numerical concepts like addition and zero, no evidence...
Moffitt Partners with top cancer centers to endorse goal of eliminating HPV-related cancers
TAMPA, Fla. - Nearly 80 million Americans - one out of every four people - are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV). And of those millions,...
Secrets of fish population changes revealed
Populations of fish in the ocean are notoriously variable, waxing and waning in often unpredictable ways. Knowing what drives changes in fish population sizes is...
Scientists go deep to quantify perovskite properties
Credit: Jean-Christophe Blancon/Los Alamos National Laboratory HOUSTON - (June 8, 2018) - Scientists led by Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered electronic...
Study: Populations of widely spread tree species respond differently to climate change
Credit: Andrés Holz, Portland State University A new Portland State University study shows that not all populations of a single, widely spread tree species respond...
New way to predict caries progression
Credit: Author: Pavel Seredin A team of researchers form Russia discovered that an increase in the concentration of several substances in oral fluid can serve...
Coral tricks for adapting to ocean acidification
Credit: © 2018 Eric Tambutté A process that changes the regulation of genes could help corals acclimatize to the impacts of global warming. Cells commonly...
Temple researchers reverse cognitive impairments in mice with dementia
Credit: Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) - Reversing memory deficits and impairments in spatial learning is a major goal in...
Thorny life of new-born neurons
Credit: Tassilo Jungenitz FRANKFURT. Even in adult brains, new neurons are generated throughout a lifetime. In a publication in the scientific journal PNAS, a research...
‘Monstrous’ new Russian saber-tooth fossils clarify early evolution of mammal lineage
Credit: Matt Celeskey Fossils representing two new species of saber-toothed prehistoric predators have been described by researchers from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences...
