Organic-inorganic heterostructures with programmable electronic properties
Credit: Lohe Vertical stacks of different two-dimensional (2D) crystals, such as graphene, boron nitride, etc., held together by weak van ...
Researchers control soft robots using magnetic fields
Credit: Joe Tracy A team of engineering researchers has made a fundamental advance in controlling so-called soft robots, using magnetic ...
Microscopic muscles: How non-muscle cells find the strength to move
Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore have described, for ...
Viruses in the oceanic basement
Credit: Expedition AT26-03 Scientists A team of scientists from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth ...
Sex-shifting fish: Growth rate could determine sea lamprey sex
Credit: Andrea Miehls, USGS p>Unlike most animals, sea lampreys, an invasive, parasitic species of fish damaging the Great Lakes, could ...
Mechanism for hMTH1’s broad substrate specificity revealed
Credit: Professor Yuriko Yamagata Human MutT homolog 1 (hMTH1) protein acts as the primary enzyme for breaking down (hydrolyzing) damaged ...
Japanese researchers make breakthrough in antioxidant enzyme linked to jaundice
Credit: Kei Wada Osaka - Jaundice, marked by yellowing of the skin, is common in infants, but also a symptom ...
Choosing a simpler path to drug discovery
Credit: Kyoto University Drug discovery is in essence the designing of compounds to interact with disease-related proteins. And in many ...
Quantum communication: How to outwit noise
Credit: IQOQI/Harald Ritsch Nowadays we communicate via radio signals and send electrical pulses through long cables. This could change soon, ...
Study finds one in eight Calgary homes exceed Health Canada’s acceptable radon level
Credit: Riley Brandt Radon gas is a colourless, odourless radioactive gas that has been linked to lung cancer. Now, University ...
Legos and origami inspire next-generation materials
Credit: Credit: Nan Yang, Jesse L. Silverberg. Inspired by the fun of playing with Legos, an international team of researchers ...
The IT-LIVER European consortium unveils new TGF-beta functions in liver cancer
Credit: IDIBELL Recent research results from the TGF-beta and cancer research group at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), within ...
University of Illinois announces new partnership with ZEISS labs@location program
Credit: Kathryn Faith A new agreement between the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of ...
Cattle associated antibiotics disturb soil ecosystems, Virginia Tech researchers say
Credit: Virginia Tech Manure from cattle administered antibiotics drastically changes the bacterial and fungal make-up of surrounding soil, leading to ...
Subaru telescope detects the shadow of a gas cloud in an ancient proto-supercluster
Credit: Osaka Sangyo University / NAOJ A team led by researchers from Osaka Sangyo University, with members from Tohoku University, ...
Seabird bones, fossils reveal broad food-web shift in North Pacific
Credit: Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian. For thousands of years, the Hawaiian petrel has soared over the Pacific Ocean, feeding on ...
Seasonal warming leads to smaller animal body sizes
Credit: Curtis Horne Changes in the body size of animals measured under controlled laboratory conditions have been shown to closely ...
Man with quadriplegia employs injury bridging technologies to move again — just by thinking
Credit: Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland FES Center CLEVELAND--Bill Kochevar grabbed a mug of water, drew it to his lips and ...
Key research priorities for agricultural microbiomes identified
Credit: James Kremer A coordinated effort to understand plant microbiomes could boost plant health and agricultural productivity, according to a ...
Georgia Cancer Center participates in NCI-driven initiative to understand racial, ethnic, age disparities in 6 cancers
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 28, 2017) - The Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University is one of a ...
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