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...
NEWS INDEX
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...
Male infertility research reveals how a new life begins
Research into a genetic mutation causing some men to be infertile shows that an important protein in the sperm that is a key component of...
Towards mastering terahertz waves?
Credit: ©UNIGE The terahertz waves span frequency ranges between the infrared spectrum (used, for example, for night vision) and gigahertz waves (which find their application,...
Fruit flies halt reproduction during infection
A protective mechanism that allows fruit flies to lay fewer eggs in response to bacterial infection is explained in a study published in the journal...
Targeted Anticancer Therapies (TAT) Congress becomes an annual ESMO event
Lugano, 7 March 2017 - ESMO, the leading European organisation for medical oncology, has announced it will take over the organisation of the Targeted Anticancer...
