Pollutants, pathogens could team up to make us sick
Many people view pollutants and pathogens as separate causes of illness. However, recent research indicates that the two can interact, changing how people and animals...
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Conflict in space doesn’t always look like ‘Star Wars’
War in SpaceCredit: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imagine driving on an unfamiliar route and suddenly your GPS navigation cuts out. Later it becomes clear that...
Fish-inspired material changes color using nanocolumns
Credit: Zhiren Luo, NC State University Inspired by the flashing colors of the neon tetra fish, researchers have developed a technique for changing the color...
Ant larvae fight the offspring of parasitic queens
In certain ant species, queens invade the colonies of other species, kill the host queen or queens and lay their eggs in the host nest....
Active substance from plant slows down aggressive eye cancer
Researchers at the Universities of Magdeburg and Bonn are testing a substance from the leaves of the coralberryCredit: Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn An active substance...
Novel sensor system improves reliability of high-temperature humidity measurements
Hannover MesseCredit: Photo credit: Oliver Dietze A new sensor system developed in Saarbrücken, Germany can not only carefully control drying processes in industrial ovens, but...
Children grow in a different way, scientists demonstrate
The discovery may suggest new methods of growth disorder treatment in children An international group of scientists under the supervision of a staff member of...
Early discharge after lung surgery benefits patients without raising readmission risk
PHILADELPHIA -- When hospitals implement programs to optimize patients' recovery from surgery, healthcare costs fall and patients show improved outcomes. One major benefit of the...
Want in on nanotechnology? Capitalize on collaborative environments
New study shows that partnerships could assist successful technology transfer and possibly, breakthroughs in innovationCredit: Raphael Zingg (Waseda University) and Marius Fischer (Max Planck Institute...
Gut instinct: Bile acid-triggered bacterial adaptation characterized
Researchers at Osaka University and international colleagues show how a system triggered by the recognition of bile acids enables bacteria to survive the harsh conditions...
New measurement method for radioactive methane
Credit: Anu Vallinkoski The method developed by Juho Karhu in his PhD thesis work at the University Helsinki, is a first step towards creating a...
Breakthrough in fight against plant diseases
Credit: La Trobe University A global research team including scientists from La Trobe University have identified specific locations within plants' chromosomes capable of transferring immunity...
GRAPES-3 muon telescope discovers record 1.3 gigavolt potential in a thundercloud
Credit: Pranay Godawat/ GRAPES-3 experiment Thunderstorms are a spectacular manifestation of electrical discharges of thunderclouds, and have fascinated humans through millennia. There is a dark...
Researchers shed new light on the origins of modern humans
The work, published in Nature, confirms a dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migrationCredit: NASA Goddard Space Flight...
How fluid viscosity affects earthquake intensity
A young researcher at EPFL has demonstrated that the viscosity of fluids present in faults has a direct effect on the force of earthquakes Fault...
