Turning light energy into heat to fight disease
Scientists have developed a method involving terahertz radiation to monitor temperature changes when laser light is focused on tiny gold particles in waterCredit: Roberto Morandotti...
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Consider marine life when implementing offshore renewable power
Credit: John Wang With countries such as Iceland, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and Norway adopting green energy practices, renewable energy now accounts for a third...
Nonlinear fureai: How connectedness can nurture complex dynamics across diverse networks
Credit: Ludovico Minati Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have uncovered some new aspects of how connections in networks can influence their behavior over time....
AI improves breast cancer risk prediction
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - A sophisticated type of artificial intelligence (AI) can outperform existing models at predicting which women...
New way to identify and track progression of Huntington’s disease
Credit: George Devitt Researchers at the universities of Southampton and Cambridge have developed a new technique to analyse biochemical changes unique to Huntington's disease. The...
Gastric cancer susceptibility marker discovered
Credit: © Lionel Costa Gastric cancer, the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths, is often associated with a poor prognosis because it tends to...
Seasonal forecasts challenged by Pacific Ocean warming
Credit: CSHOR CSIRO research has found global warming will make it more difficult to predict multi-year global climate variations, a consequence of changes to long-term...
Moths and perhaps other animals rely on precise timing of neural spikes
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Extracting nectar from flowers that may be dancing in the wind requires precise, millisecond timing between the brain and muscles....
Study finds Chinese plant biodiversity at risk due to human activity: Narrow-ranged losers, widespread
Credit: WANG Yunquan With intensifying human activity, many species are threatened with extinction. However, many other species have expanded their range. Is there a general...
Protein injections in medicine
One day, medical compounds could be introduced into cells with the help of bacterial toxinsCredit: MPI f. Molecular Physiology Pathogens can use a range of...
SUTD scientists developed a sorting technology that isolates cells with high purity and viability
Credit: SUTD Fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) is a modern cell analysis technique for quantitative detection of physiological, biochemical, immunological, and molecular biological traits of...
Filtered coffee helps prevent type 2 diabetes, show biomarkers in blood samples
Credit: Yen Strandqvist, Chalmers University of Technology Coffee can help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes - but only filtered coffee, rather than...
MIPT researchers close in on new nonvolatile memory
Credit: Andrei Zenkevich/MIPT Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, along with their colleagues from Germany and the U.S., have achieved a breakthrough...
Even resilient common species are not immune to environmental crisis
Measures of genetic diversity of a fruit bat common in Singapore decreased 30-fold over the last 90 yearsCredit: ©2013 Simon J. Tonge A recent study...
Good aerobic fitness doesn’t protect children against type 2 diabetes, staying active does
Credit: Eero Haapala Good aerobic fitness does not protect children against obesity-induced insulin resistance, which is a key risk factor of type 2 diabetes, a...
