Limiting the loss of nature
Credit: The University of Queensland With only about half of Earth's terrestrial surface remaining as natural vegetation, a University of Queensland-led team has proposed an...
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New ‘netherworldly’ freshwater fish named for Thai conservation visionary
Credit: Zachary Randall/Florida Museum GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- At first glance, Garra surinbinnani looks like a stout, brown minnow with the face of a boxer who's...
Hydrogels control inflammation to help healing
Rice, Texas Heart Institute scientists model how synthetic gels can tune body's inflammatory responseCredit: Illustration by Tania Lopez-Silva/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 16, 2019) -...
Change of shifts at the north pole
As the second leg of the 1-year-long MOSAiC expedition begins, participants review the mission so farCredit: Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/Esther Horvath, CC-BY 4.0 After exchanging research teams...
ESO telescope images stunning central region of Milky Way, finds ancient star burst
Credit: ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al. ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has observed the central part of the Milky Way with spectacular resolution and uncovered new details...
Birds’ seasonal migrations shift earlier as climate changes, new research shows
UMass Amherst, Colorado State, Cornell study analyzed 2 decades of migration dataCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - In what the authors believe is one of...
New system transmits high-speed unrepeated signal over 520 kilometers
Credit: T8 Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have partnered up with engineers from Corning Inc., U.S., and T8, Russia, and developed...
Scientist breaks down chemistry in iconic cartoons: SpongeBob SquarePants and Popeye
Are bananas actually that slippery? Could spinach give you superhuman strength? And what the heck is Toon Acid? This week, watch some cartoons alongside our...
Plastic biosensor finds sweet success
Credit: © 2019 KAUST; Heno Hwang An electronic biosensor powered using the glucose in bodily fluids has been developed by KAUST researchers. The device pairs...
Climate change could make RSV respiratory infection outbreaks less severe, more common
Credit: Pixabay One of the first studies to examine the effect of climate change on diseases such as influenza that are transmitted directly from person...
New way to make biomedical devices from silk yields better products with tunable qualities
Using methods common to plastics manufacturing, properties of silk-based devices can be tuned for strength, flexibility, molecular function and biodegradabilityCredit: Chunmei Li & David Kaplan,...
Visual neurons don’t work the way scientists thought, study finds
Less than 10% of neurons in the mouse visual system behave the way scientists thought most such cells work to perceive the outside worldCredit: Allen...
From cancer medication to antibiotic
Modified cancer drug effective against multi-resistant bacteriaCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are increasingly the source of deadly infections. A team of scientists from...
Evolutionarily novel genes work in tumors
Scientists studied the tumor specifically expressed, evolutionarily novel (TSEEN) genesCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University A team of scientists from Peter the Great St.Petersburg...
New heat model may help electronic devices last longer
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A University of Illinois-based team of engineers has found that the model currently used to predict...
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