Reducing power plants’ thirst
Sandia analysis evaluating promising water-saving technologies for Palo Verde power plantCredit: Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Electricity production is one of the industries that uses...
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‘Gift of life’ marketing fails to motivate many donors
Blood and organ donors are thin on the ground but maybe better marketing could help: QUT researchersCredit: Image by Sabin Urcelay from Pixabay With a...
F1000 Research joins Taylor & Francis Group
Credit: Taylor & Francis and F1000 Research Ltd. Leading specialist academic publisher Taylor & Francis Group, part of Informa plc, has today announced the addition...
Antibiotics could be promising treatment for form of dementia
Credit: Mark Cornelison | UK Photo LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 10, 2020) -- Researchers at the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine have found that a...
Response to fire impacts water levels 40 years into future
Credit: Photos courtesy of USDA Forest Service. Salvage logging and re-seeding a forest after a wildfire helps reduce flooding and returns water levels to normal...
An 18-carat gold nugget made of plastic
Credit: ETH Zurich Lovers of gold watches and heavy jewellery will be thrilled. The objects of their desire may someday become much lighter, but without...
Team led by NUS avian researcher discovered 10 new bird taxa in Wallacea
Understanding of Quaternary land connections and knowledge of historic collection gaps were crucial in identifying remote regions likely to harbor novel avian speciesCredit: James Eaton/Birdtour...
Explosion or collapse?
Experiment on beta-decay sheds light on fate of intermediate-mass starsCredit: Picture: X-ray: NASA/CXC/NCSU/M. Burkey et al.; Optical: DSS A group of scientists, among them several...
Global warming is the kindling that caused extensive wildfire
Credit: Jong-Seong Kug (POSTECH) In November of last year, the wildfire that started in California, U.S.A burned areas that amount about the size of Seoul...
New function for potential tumor suppressor in brain development
Analysis of Cdkn1c loss at single cell level reveals novel and unexpected role of gene -- study published in Nature CommunicationsCredit: © IST Austria -...
Study puts the ‘Carib’ in ‘Caribbean,’ boosting credibility of Columbus’ cannibal claims
Credit: Ann Ross/North Carolina State University GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Christopher Columbus' accounts of the Caribbean include harrowing descriptions of fierce raiders who abducted women and...
Plants found to speak roundworm’s language
Researchers from Boyce Thompson Institute have found that plants manipulate nematode pheromones to repel these pests, which cause more than $100 million in damage to...
Lonely in a crowd: Overcoming loneliness with acceptance and wisdom
Study looked at characteristics of loneliness in a senior housing community and the strategies residents used to overcome itCredit: Erik Jepson, UC San Diego Publications...
Pearls of wisdom
Scientists study the dynamic interplay between genome and the environment in Japanese pearl oystersCredit: OIST Since the late 19th century, pearl aquaculture has been a...
Deep learning, 3D technology to improve structure modeling, create better drugs
Credit: Daisuke Kihara/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Proteins are often called the working molecules of the human body. A typical body has more than...
