A plastic-eating caterpillar
Credit: Federica Bertocchini, Paolo Bombelli, and Chris Howe Generally speaking, plastic is incredibly resistant to breaking down. That's certainly true of the trillion polyethylene plastic...
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A CSIC scientist discovers that wax worms eat plastic
Loading video... Credit: César Hernández/Ainhoa Goñi A research scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Federica Bertocchini, has discovered that wax worms (Galleria mellonella),...
Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting biodegradable solution to plastic pollution
Credit: César Hernández/CSIC Scientists have found that a caterpillar commercially bred for fishing bait has the ability to biodegrade polyethylene: one of the toughest and...
Patients with drug-resistant malaria cured by plant therapy developed at WPI
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - When the standard malaria medications failed to help 18 critically ill patients, the attending physician in a...
First-ever direct observation of chiral currents in quantum Hall atomic simulation
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois Using an atomic quantum simulator, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have achieved the first-ever direct...
Next-generation microscopy
Credit: Vladimer Gregory/CeMM (Vienna, April 24, 2016) Our immune system consists of a great variety of cell types fulfilling diverse tasks in monitoring tissue homeostasis...
Nanoparticle vaccine shows potential as immunotherapy to fight multiple cancer types
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - April 24, 2017 - Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a first-of-its-kind nanoparticle vaccine immunotherapy that targets several...
Gallbladder cancer rates decreasing in men, not women; late-stage diagnosis on the rise
Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health Gallbladder cancer is a rare, but aggressive disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about...
Images of health risks make indoor tanning messages more effective
CHAPEL HILL -- Although the health risks associated with indoor tanning are clear, tanning bed use among college-aged women is still popular. A new study...
Growth under pressure: New metamaterial designed with counterintuitive property
Loading video... Credit: Jingyuan Qu, Muamer Kadic, and Martin Wegener WASHINGTON, D.C., April t24, 2017 -- In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to...
After the death of a friend, healing in a human social network
Credit: Will Hobbs Wounds heal - the cells in a body knit over a cut. When a neuron dies, the brain can rewire itself to...
Robot radiology: Low cost A.I. could screen for cervical cancer better than humans
Artificial intelligence--commonly known as A.I.--is already exceeding human abilities. Self-driving cars use A.I. to perform some tasks more safely than people. E-commerce companies use A.I....
Russian scientists create new system of concrete building structures
Credit: Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University Professor of the Institute of Civil Engineering of Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) Andrey Ponomarev a..
Early career scientist receives recognition from Microscopy Society of America
Credit: David Hungate/Virginia Tech Rengasayee "Sai" Veeraraghavan, a research assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, became the sixth person in the world...
From abundant hydrocarbons to rare spin liquids
Credit: Kosmas Prassides Fuel such as petrol is made up of hydrocarbons -- a family of molecules consisting entirely of carbon and hydrogen. Pigment and...
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