Dual approach needed to save sinking cities and bleaching corals
Credit: The Ocean Agency / XL Catlin Seaview Survey / Richard Vevers DURHAM, N.C. - Local conservation can boost the climate resilience of coastal ecosystems,...
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Lyncean Technologies awarded 49M to provide world’s most advanced gamma-ray source
Credit: Photo by Adrian Sokolov Lyncean Technologies, a pioneer in compact accelerator-based light sources for use in science and industry, on October 4th signed a...
New silk materials can wrinkle into detailed patterns, then unwrinkle to be ‘reprinted’
Scientists engineer on-demand high resolution wrinkling for reversible printing and thermal regulationCredit: Fio Omenetto, Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (October 7, 2019)--Researchers at Tufts University School...
Mason scientists invent new technology to streamline drug discovery
Credit: Photo by Evan Cantwell Manassas, Va. - George Mason University researchers have discovered the exact location where two proteins responsible for hiding cancer cells...
How bike sharing in Seattle rose from the ashes of Pronto’s failure
Credit: Peters and MacKenzie/Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice In October 2014, Seattle launched Pronto, a docked bike-share program. But Pronto had problems shifting...
Security in a heartbeat
Sandia partnering with New Mexico small business to test biometric technologyCredit: Illustration by Michael Vittitow, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A thumbprint to unlock...
A study on tropical fish helps us to understand species invasions
Credit: The University of Jyvaskyla Biodiversity i.e. the variety of life forms on our planet is in great danger. Human-driven climate change and intensive land...
Histone modifications are the influencers of zygotic genome awakening
Credit: Tokyo Tech The zebrafish is an important model organism in biology. We share 70% of our genes with these tiny tropical fish, and more...
Axion particle spotted in solid-state crystal
Credit: Johannes Gooth Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, Princeton University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and...
Diabetes-Alzheimer’s link explored at Neuroscience 2019
Live-streamed press conference offers breaking researchCredit: Society for Neuroscience Surprising links exist between diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, and researchers are beginning to unpack the pathology...
Electrode-fitted microscope points to better designed devices that make fuel from sunlight
University of Oregon researchers find that smaller catalytic nanoparticles may be vital for many kinds of devices that convert solar energy into chemical fuels like...
Kessler scientists receive grant to study exercise benefits in multiple sclerosis
Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers awards grant to Drs. John DeLuca and Helen Genova to study the effects of different exercise regimens across multiple realms...
PayPal, University of Luxembourg and FNR announce first public-private University Chair
Credit: (c) Université du Luxembourg / Michel Brumat Esch-sur-Alzette, Lux, 7th October 2019 - Professor Gilbert Fridgen has been appointed the inaugural PayPal-FNR PEARL Chair...
Nodulation connected to higher resistance against powdery mildew in legumes
Credit: The American Phytopathological Society and Zaiyong Si St. Paul, Minnesota--Scientists have long known that nodulation is important to plant health. Nodulation occurs when nodules,...
Was early stick insect evolution triggered by birds and mammals?
Research team led by the University of Göttingen reveals early evolution of stick insectsCredit: Christoph Seiler Stick and leaf insects are a diverse and strikingly...