Blue Brain solves a century-old neuroscience problem
Neuroscientists can now start building a formal catalogue for all the types of cells in the brain, with their role and functionCredit: EPFL / Blue...
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NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Veronica affecting Australia’s Pilbara Coast
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Visible imagery from NASA's Terra satellite showed Tropical Cyclone Veronica skirting the Pilbara coast...
Bacteria bide their time when antibiotics attack
Rice University study suggests strategies for better dosage to fight infectionsCredit: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HOUSTON - (March 21, 2019) - If...
C-sections are seen as breastfeeding barrier in US, but not in other global communities
Indigenous Mexican mothers practice prolonged breastfeeding even after C-sections and their babies benefitCredit: Photo provided by Rosy Garibay WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The increase in...
First reputation-based blockchain guarantees security against 51 percent attacks
Researchers at the University of Luxembourg are part of an international team that has proposed the first blockchain system to guarantee proper performance even when...
Physicists reveal why matter dominates universe
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University have confirmed that matter and antimatter decay differently for elementary particles...
New light into the recent evolution of the African rift valley
Field research on the border between Ethiopia and Kenya provides new insights into the break-up of continentsCredit: Giacomo Corti, National Research Council Italy Continental rift valleys...
New brain research challenges our understanding of sleep
An international study headed by researchers from Aarhus University has for the first time uncovered the large-scale brain patterns and networks in the brain which...
The University of Luxembourg and Goodyear cooperate on new automotive applications
The University of Luxembourg and the Goodyear Innovation Center in Luxembourg have launched a new research project that studies the use of Near-Field Communication (NFC)...
Prenatal allergies prompt sexual changes in offspring
Female rats born to exposed moms act like males, study findsCredit: The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio - A single allergic reaction during pregnancy prompts...
Imaging method reveals long-lived patterns in cells of the eye
Technique could aid early detection and treatment of certain eye diseasesCredit: National Eye Institute Cells of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) form unique patterns that...
Open-source solution: Researchers 3D-print system for optical cardiography
Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office An international research team from the George Washington University, U.S., and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, has developed...
Study finds cells maintain a complete molecular ‘memory’ of their embryonic origins
Discovery may have major implications for regenerative medicine, cancer research In research that casts cells as curators of their own history, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists...
New mechanism identified for influenza-induced bacterial superinfections
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 21, 2019--Researchers have described a new mechanism by which influenza A viruses (IAV) alter the...
Making solar cells is like buttering bread
Credit: Loi lab / University of Groningen Formamidinium lead iodide is a very good material for photovoltaic cells, but getting the correct and stable crystal...
