Chiton mollusk provides model for new armor design
Credit: Virginia Tech The motivations for using biology as inspiration to engineering vary based on the project, but for Ling Li, assistant professor of mechanical...
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LSU Health discovers role of 2 proteins in sight and preventing blinding eye diseases
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans New Orleans, LA - Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of...
Weizmann physicists image electrons flowing like water
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Physicists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have imaged electrons flowing viscously through a nanodevice, just like water...
Probiotic yeast may offer an effective treatment for drug-resistant fungal infections
A study by researchers at WPI and the Central Food Technological Research Institute in India shows that yeasts derived from food are effective in preventing...
Research revises classification of acute myeloid leukemia & myelodysplastic syndrome
Findings presented by a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigator showcase the power and potential of combining genomic and transcriptomic data.Credit: St. Jude Children's Research...
Communications device offers huge bandwidth potential
Researchers have painstakingly combined plasma, metal and dielectric materials into multifunctional, artificial crystals, which could pave the way to higher bandwidth wireless communicationsCredit: Image courtesy...
Interrogating the biological fundamentals of CRISPR to better treat infections
ERC Consolidator Grant for HIRI researcher Chase BeiselCredit: Mario Schmitt Chase Beisel heads the "Synthetic Biology of RNA" research group at the Helmholtz Institute for...
Silver improves the efficiency of monograin layer solar cells
Credit: Professor Jüri Krustok As a result of their two-year joint project, the materials researchers of Tallinn University of Technology have improved the efficiency of...
A study demonstrates the efficiency of a screening strategy to detect liver diseases
Miquel Serra-Burriel, a researcher at the Centre for Research in Health Economics (CRES-UPF), co-author of the article together with researchers from the Hepatology Unit of...
She uses mushroom enzyme and light to create green chemicals
By combining nature's own reactions, Associate Professor Selin Kara from the Department of Engineering at Aarhus University aims to develop a fully green and sustainable...
New findings on satiety signaling from intestine
Credit: Photo by University of Gothenburg A previously unknown mechanism that suppresses satiety signals from the small intestine is the main finding of a new...
Insects’ drag-based flight mechanism could improve tiny flying robots
An experiment involving gluing a tiny thrip's wing to a self-sensing microcantilever was confirmed using 3D computational fluid dynamics simulationsCredit: Yonggang Jiang/Beihang University WASHINGTON, D.C.,...
Spying on hippos with drones to help conservation efforts
Credit: Victoria Inman Drones with cameras might be a nuisance to privacy in the suburbs, but in Southern Africa they are helping a UNSW Sydney...
No ‘clouded’ judgments: Geostationary satellite an alternative to monitor land surfaces
Researchers explain how a new meteorological satellite can be an option to monitor land surfaces and climate changeCredit: Tomoaki Miura and Kazuhito Ichii Satellite remote...
NII start operation 400 Gbps link to speed up SINET supporting Japan’s academic research
Putting world-leading long-distance 400 Gbps link into practical operationCredit: © National Institute of Informatics SINET is a network utilized by universities and research organizations across...