UV satellite will open new view on exploding stars and black holes
DESY to build 100-megapixel camera for Israeli space telescopeCredit: DESY, Sven Stein A new space telescope will open up an unprecedented view of the universe...
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Make fungi think they’re starving to stop them having sex, say scientists
Newly characterised receptors that repress sexual reproduction in fungi could be targeted to slow down their evolutionCredit: Brown and Goldman Tricking fungi into thinking they're...
Study finds inflammatory protein can protect against spread of herpes virus
Credit: Photo by Tabbitha Mosier PHOENIX - Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix have discovered a function in a pro-inflammatory...
Teaching cars to drive with foresight
Researchers at the University of Bonn present self-learning processCredit: © AG Computer Vision der Universität Bonn Good drivers anticipate dangerous situations and adjust their driving...
Looking at the way we walk can help predict cognitive decline
Gait disorders, particularly slowing gait, should be considered a marker of future cognitive decline say scientists in this special supplement to the Journal of Alzheimer's...
How to move against the current? One answer is ’tilt’-illating
Credit: Dr. Yan-Peng Liu Going upstream, and against a current, involves a front-first downward tilt and then moving along a surface, shows new research by...
DOD funds NEOMED research to see if exercise proves to be neuroprotective
Nearly $1 million award supports study that may help change the pathology of Parkinson's disease and inform activities for those in VA systemsCredit: Northeast Ohio...
Study underscores changes in brain structure, function in long-duration space missions
Credit: Sarah Pack A new study demonstrates for the first time that changes in cognitive performance correlate with changes in brain structure in NASA astronauts...
Study tracks evolutionary history of metabolic networks
Credit: Photo illustration by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By analyzing how metabolic enzymes are built and organized, researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history of...
Scientists are developing a way to counter ulcerative colitis
KBFU center for clinical research scientists have participated in the international VARSITY clinical researchCredit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Scientists from 34 countries with an...
Hubble captures cosmic face
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears to resemble a ghostly face....
New findings could improve diagnosis, treatment of depression
Scientists find potential biomarker for major symptom of depression: lack of motivationCredit: Image courtesy of Stephan Lammel, UC Berkeley Researchers at the University of California,...
Signaling waves determine embryonic fates
Rice University lab shows cell-signal pathway dynamics prompt first patterns in embryosCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019) - Timing is everything for...
An amazingly simple recipe for nanometer-sized corundum
Credit: IFJ PAN, MPI Kofo Almost everyone uses nanometer-sized alumina these days - this mineral, among others, constitutes the skeleton of modern catalytic converters in...
Go-ahead for international stellarator project
German-American joint project/Funding by Helmholtz AssociationCredit: IPP, Volker Steger Fusion systems of the stellarator type promise high-performance plasmas in continuous operation. Accordingly, heat and particles...
