132 grams to communicate with Mars
Credit: UCLouvain Dust storms, ionising cosmic radiation, extreme cold at night ... Mars is not very hospitable! It's for these extreme conditions that the research...
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NSF grant provides next step for assistive walking exoskeletons
Credit: Tyler Henderson To understand, model and optimize the comfort of lower limb robotic exoskeletons, researchers in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering have...
Assaf Naor receives Ostrowski Prize in Higher Mathematics
Credit: © Simons Foundation The Czech-Israeli mathematician Assaf Naor has been awarded the international Ostrowski Prize in Higher Mathematics 2019. The Ostrowski Prize is worth...
Research aims to make technologies for controlling blood sugar more accessible
Project is focused on improved quality of life for senior citizensCredit: Rensselaer TROY, N.Y. -- The rise of continuous blood glucose monitor and insulin pump...
Why did the turtles cross the highway? They didn’t, but they still might be impacted
Research finds turtles are potentially cutoff by bypass through Wayne National ForestCredit: Ben Siegel Ohio University researchers set out to determine the impact of the...
Tumor-specific therapy targets ovarian cancer
UConn and UNC startup, Nami Therapeutics, develops nanotechnologies for targeted cancer therapyCredit: (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo) Nami Therapeutics Corporation, which gets its name from the Mandarin...
Expanding computational skills in science to support research
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation partner to support the carpentries in teaching foundational coding and data science skills to...
Solution of the high-resolution crystal structure of stress proteins from Staphylococcus
A paper was published by Kazan Federal University in the Journal of Structural BiologyCredit: Kazan Federal University Project leader, Head of Structural Biology Lab Konstantin...
VA investigates impact of opioids, sedatives on veterans
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Chancellor Brian Strom leads investigation of the medications' co-prescription and veteran overdoses and deathsCredit: Rutgers University Veterans who simultaneously take...
Structural and biochemical studies clarify the methylation mechanism of anticodon in tRNA
Transfer RNA recognition mechanism of eukaryotic tRNA methyltransferase Trm7-Trm734 complex and functions of its subunitsCredit: Ehime University Genetic information on DNA is transcribed onto messenger...
Revealed a mechanism of beta-cells involved in the development of type-1 diabetes
Researchers reveal how pancreatic ß-cells respond to an inflammatory environment and its implication in developing Type 1 diabetesCredit: Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute Researchers Lorenzo...
Scientists can replace metal collimators with plastic analogs
Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University conducted studies of plastic collimators, which can replace their metal analogs used in radiation therapy. At the first stage, the...
A new CRISPR-Cas9 protein to increase precision of gene editing
Credit: City University of Hong Kong A team of researchers from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and Karolinska Institutet has recently developed a new...
The first Cr-based nitrides superconductor Pr3Cr10-xN11
Credit: ©Science China Press Since the discovery of superconductivity in the chromium-based compound CrAs, which is more complex than those within the realm of the...
Lab in hollow MOF capsules beyond integration of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis
Credit: ©Science China Press Homogeneous molecular catalysts are highly active and selective as they possess well-tailored structures and accessible sites. Unfortunately, the difficulty related to...
