Copper mining with bioactive substances derived from bacteria
Credit: C) HZDR / 3Dkosmos Chile is one of the most important suppliers of copper to German industry. Within the framework of the scientific and...
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Understanding what’s happening inside liquid droplets
Credit: Credit: Georgia Tech For most people, the drip, drip, drip of a leaking faucet would be an annoyance. But for Georgia Institute of Technology...
$1.1 million grant funds study on why early pregnancy prevents breast cancer
Loading video... Credit: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso EL PASO, Texas - Biomedical scientist Rajkumar Lakshmanaswamy, Ph.D., has received a $1.1 million...
QUT joins new intelligent transport center
QUT will join a new research and development centre designed to deliver better transport systems for Australia, after today's announcement by the Federal Government of...
Growing Australian agriculture through the Internet of Food
QUT welcomes the $210 million Food Agility CRC announced today by the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science Senator Arthur Sinodinos. QUT's Professor Bronwyn Harch...
Designing the fuel-efficient aircraft of the future
Loading video... Credit: Sean Cunningham, TACC As much as we complain about air travel, the fact is, flying has gotten considerably cheaper, safer, faster and...
Urine-based biomarkers for early cancer screening test
Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, led by Professor Yoon-Kyoung Cho of Life Science at UNIST has recently developed a new technique that effectively identifies...
Hexagonal boron nitride enables the fabrication of 2-dimensional electronic memories
Credit: Copyright Wiley-VCH 2017. Reproduced with permission from the authors. The use of two dimensional (2D) layered materials to improve the capabilities of electronic devices...
Moscow State University scientists reveal the secret of naked mole-rat longevity
New paper was recently published in one of the most prominent scientific journals: Physiological Reviews. A group of Russian and German biologists and mathematicians that...
Resveratrol preserves neuromuscular synapses, muscle fibers in aging mice
Credit: David Hungate/Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Scientists have discovered that resveratrol, a compound in the skin of red grapes and red wine, and metformin,...
First public data released by hyper suprime-cam Subaru Strategic Program
Credit: NAOJ/HSC Project The first massive data set of a "cosmic census" has been released using the largest digital camera on the Subaru Telescope. With...
SLU researchers study a new way to lower LDL cholesterol
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- In a paper published in Biochemical Pharmacology, Saint Louis University researchers examined the way a nuclear receptor called...
New study shines light on photosynthesis
Terry Bricker, Moreland Family Professor in the Louisiana State University (LSU) Department of Biological Sciences, and colleagues at Palacký University in the Czech Republic and...
Helping women progress in traditionally male dominated fields
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed recommendations to improve female progression in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses. Their study surveyed..
First underwater video footage of the True’s beaked whale
(PeerJ) The True's beaked whale is a deep-diving mammal so rarely seen that it often defies recognition at sea by researchers. As a result, we...
