Immune reaction causes malaria organ damage
Immune cells can be the body's defenders and foes at the same timeCredit: MPIIB/ Volker Brinkmann Malaria is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases:...
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Toll roads are good for the environment, Russian scientists confirm
Researchers developed a method to calculate the number of stops trucks make along their routes; the method confirms that toll roads are good for the...
UConn launches hemp testing lab in response to industry need
Credit: Sean Flynn/UConn Photo In response to a rapidly expanding commercial hemp industry driven by interest in products with CBD oil, the University of Connecticut...
Composite metal foam outperforms aluminum for use in aircraft wings
Credit: Afsaneh Rabiei The leading edges of aircraft wings have to meet a very demanding set of characteristics. New research shows that a combination of...
Novel method turns any 3D object into a cubic style
3D stylization algorithm to be presented at SIGGRAPH AsiaCredit: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 One of the fast-growing areas in virtual reality/augmented reality is 3D shape stylization,...
Insects share the same signaling pathway to form their 3-dimensional body
Credit: Siegfried Roth A signalling pathway controlling morphogenesis, the formation of the three-dimensional body shape in the fruit fly Drosophila, also has pivotal functions for...
‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas
Credit: Virgil Andrei A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an 'artificial leaf' that uses only sunlight,...
New lightweight, portable robotic suit to increase running and walking performance
Newly developed robot suit made of fabric vest and wires to help people with restricted mobility to walk or run more efficientlyCredit: Chung-Ang University While...
A cavity leads to a strong interaction between light and matter
Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Researchers have succeeded in creating an efficient quantum-mechanical light-matter interface using a microscopic cavity. Within this cavity, a...
A complex marriage arrangement: New insights and unanswered questions in plant heterostyly
Landmark review highlights recent advances and unresolved questions as part of a New Phytologist special issue celebrating Prof. Spencer Barrett.Credit: Spencer C. H. Barrett The...
Argonne multidisciplinary team develops probe for battery research: Strength in numbers
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Argonne team develops a powerful technique for probing in three dimensions the crystalline structure of cathode materials at the nanoscale. One...
HALO measurement campaign: Climate change in the southern hemisphere
KIT, DLR, FZJ, and the Universities of Mainz and Frankfurt coordinate measurement campaign with the HALO research aircraft to study the southern atmosphere and its...
Porous polymer coatings dynamically control light and heat
New inexpensive, scalable design takes advantage of the optical switchability of porous polymers; could be used for heating, cooling, and lighting buildings, as well as...
Researchers watch quantum knots untie
After first reporting the existence of quantum knots, Aalto University & Amherst College researchers now report how the knots behaveCredit: Image credit: Tuomas Ollikainen/Aalto University...
Symbol of change for AI development
Credit: 2019 Maxat Kulmanov A mathematical framework that bridges the gap between high-level human-readable knowledge and statistical data has been developed by a KAUST team...
