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Credit: Rui Diogo, Natalia Siomava and Yorick Gitton A team of evolutionary biologists, led by Dr. Rui Diogo at Howard University, USA, and writing in...

Researchers synthesize ‘impossible’ superconductor

Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Researchers from the U.S., Russia, and China have bent the rules of classical chemistry and synthesized a "forbidden" compound of cerium...

Cracking how ‘water bears’ survive the extremes

Researchers discover that a protein in tiny tardigrades binds and forms a protective cloud against extreme survival threats such as radiation damageCredit: James Kadonaga/UC San...

Jellyfish’s ‘superpowers’ gained through cellular mechanism

Credit: Sosuke Fujita, Tohoku University Jellyfish are animals that possess the unique ability to regenerate body parts. A team of Japanese scientists has now revealed...

Microneedle biosensor accurately detects patient’s antibiotic levels in real time

Credit: Imperial College London / Timothy Rawson et al. Lancet Digital Health 2019 Small, non-invasive patches worn on the skin can accurately detect the levels...

Biologists track the invasion of herbicide-resistant weeds into southwestern Ontario

Credit: Julia Kreiner TORONTO, ON (Canada) - A team including evolutionary biologists from the University of Toronto (U of T) have identified the ways in...

Researchers publish comprehensive review on respiratory effects of vaping

UNC School of Medicine researcher Rob Tarran, PhD, led a review of all published scientific literature on the effects of e-cigarette use on the respiratory...

Teen study reveals how schools influence e-cigarette use, outlines prevention strategies

Credit: Unsplash: Lucas Clarysse When e-cigarettes hit the U.S. market in 2007, they were promoted to adult smokers as a safer, healthier alternative to traditional,...

Quantum material goes where none have gone before

Alloy behaves strangely while traversing potential 'spin liquid' stateCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (Sept. 30, 2019) -- Rice University physicist Qimiao Si...

Bertha Madras receives Innovator Award from the College on Problems of Drug Dependence

Credit: McLean Hospital The College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD) has presented McLean Hospital's Bertha K. Madras, PhD, with its Innovator Award. Madras, the...

Georgia State research finds early life racial discrimination linked to depression, accelerated aging

Credit: Georgia State Early life stress from racial discrimination puts African Americans at greater risk for accelerated aging, a marker for premature development of serious...

NASA sale launches HRL laboratories’ commercial 3D-printed aluminum effort

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is the first customer for commercial sale of feedstock for additive high-strength aluminumCredit: HRL Laboratories, LLC HRL Additive, a new...

Microbes in warm soils released more carbon than those in cooler soils

Warming tropical soils could cause a 9% increase in atmospheric CO2 this centuryCredit: Andrew Nottingham As one descends a mountain, the temperature steadily increases. A...

What did ancient crocodiles eat? Study says as much as a snout can grab

Credit: Envato While most people imagine alligators and crocodiles as being much the same now as they were during the age of dinosaurs, digging into...

Study explains molecular mechanism of botanical folk medicines used to treat hypertension