Bioprinting complex living tissue in just a few seconds
Researchers have developed an extremely fast optical method for sculpting complex shapes in stem-cell-laden hydrogels…
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Study models new method to accelerate nanoparticles
Researchers have modeled a method to manipulate nanoparticles as an alternative mode of propulsion for…
Can researchers engage safely with the food industry?
Researchers are exploring ways to help scientists better protect their work from the influence of…
Frying oil consumption worsened colon cancer and colitis in mice, study shows
Food scientists have shown that feeding frying oil to mice exaggerated colonic inflammation, enhanced tumor…
A new method for quantifying crystal semiconductor efficiency
Scientists have found a new way to successfully detect the efficiency of crystal semiconductors. Read…
Researchers find a way to stop lung damage due to the body’s immune response
Researchers have discovered a new way to stop harmful inflammation in the lungs due to…
Do single people suffer more?
Researchers have confirmed the analgesic effects of social support – even without verbal or physical…
The technology behind Bitcoin may improve the medications of the future
Researchers have developed a prototype of an app that may potentially prescribe the optimal dose…
Addressing causes of mortality in Zambia
Despite the fact that people in sub-Saharan Africa are now living longer than they did…
The fat of the land: Estimating the ecological costs of overeating
Researchers have proposed a way to measure the ecological impact of global food wastage due…
Mission to Jupiter’s icy moon confirmed
An icy ocean world in our solar system that could tell us more about the…
Adaptation to life in cattle may be driving E. coli to develop harmful features
Research led by Kyushu University finds that E. coli from cattle share widespread genetic similarities…
Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet’s colorful belts
Coordinated observations of Jupiter in early 2017 by six ground-based telescopes and Hubble allowed astronomers…
Scratching the surface of how your brain senses an itch
Light touch plays a critical role in everyday tasks, such as picking up a glass…
Genetic diversity couldn’t save Darwin’s finches
Researchers found that Charles Darwin’s famous finches defy what has long been considered a key…
Ginkgo biloba may aid in treating type 2 diabetes
Ginkgo Biloba, one of the oldest living trees species, may offer some clues in better…
Tracing the evolution of vision
The function of the visual photopigment rhodopsin and its action in the retina to facilitate…
Scientists successfully innoculate, grow crops in salt-damaged soil
Researchers may have found a way to reverse falling crop yields caused by increasingly salty…
Early life on Earth limited by enzyme
A single enzyme found in early single-cell life forms could explain why oxygen levels in…
Maximum mass of lightest neutrino revealed using astronomical big data
The mass of the lightest neutrino, an abundant ‘ghost’ particle found throughout the universe, has…
Rising summer heat could soon endanger travelers on annual Muslim pilgrimage
Over two million Muslim travelers just finished the annual religious pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia,…
Are we really protecting rivers from pollution? It’s hard to say, and that’s a problem
More public and private resources than ever are being directed to protecting and preserving aquatic…
Slow electrons to combat cancer
Slow electons can be used to destroy cancer cells – but how exactly this happens…
E-cigs can trigger same lung changes seen in smokers, emphysema
Scientists found that the lungs of vapers — like the lungs of smokers — have…
Computer model could help test new sickle cell drugs
A new computer model that captures the dynamics of the red blood cell sickling process…
Fatigue in Parkinson’s disease is associated with lower diastolic blood pressure
Fatigue is a common debilitating symptom in Parkinson’s disease (PD). A novel research study has…
Temperatures of 800 billion degrees in the cosmic kitchen
It is among the most spectacular events in the universe: a merger of neutron stars….
New light on contested identity of medieval skeleton found at Prague Castle
Used as a propaganda tool by the Nazis and Soviets during the Second World War…
Explaining earthquakes we can’t feel
Researchers have explained mysterious slow-moving earthquakes known as slow slip events with the help of…
Australian men’s life expectancy tops other men’s
Australian men are now living longer than any other group of males in the world,…
First microscopic look at a tiny phenomenon with big potential implications
Matter behaves differently when it’s tiny. At the nanoscale, electric current cuts through mountains of…
Quantum gravity’s tangled time
The theories of quantum mechanics and gravity are notorious for being incompatible, despite the efforts…
Artificial muscles bloom, dance, and wave
Researchers have developed an ultrathin, artificial muscle for soft robotics. The advancement was demonstrated with…
Memory research: Fruit flies learn their body size once for an entire lifetime
Drosophila melanogaster develops stable long-term memory for its body size and reach through motion parallax…
Enzyme that helps protect us from stress linked to liver cancer growth
An enzyme induced by stress to help reduce production of damaging free radicals is also…
Underground links between quakes and eruptions of Japan’s biggest active volcano
To better understand subsurface processes associated with earthquakes and eruptions of Mount Aso, researchers investigated…
There are way more species of horseshoe bats than scientists thought
Horseshoe bats are bizarre-looking animals with giant ears and elaborate flaps of skin on their…
Switching on the Atlantic Ocean heat pump
34 million years ago the warm ‘greenhouse climate’ of the dinosaur age ended and the…
Visualizing strong magnetic fields with neutrons
Researchers have developed a new method with which strong magnetic fields can be precisely measured….
Brain finds order amidst chaos
How does the brain find order amidst a sea of noise and chaos? Researchers have…
High-intensity step training boosts stroke survivors’ walking skills
High-intensity step training that mimics real world conditions may better improve walking ability in stroke…
Physical activity at any intensity linked to lower risk of early death
Clear evidence that higher levels of physical activity — regardless of intensity — are associated…
Omega-3 fats have little or no effect on type 2 diabetes
Increasing omega-3 fats in the diet has little or no effect on risk of type…
China’s two-child policy has led to 5.4 million extra births
The introduction of China’s universal two-child policy, that permits all couples to have two children,…
New technique could streamline design of intricate fusion device
Stellarators, twisty machines that house fusion reactions, rely on complex magnetic coils that are challenging…
Scientists propose network of imaging centers to drive innovation in biological research
When sparks fly to innovate new technologies for imaging life at the microscopic scale, often…
Parasite needs chemical (lipid/nutrient) in cat intestines for sex
Toxoplasma gondii is a microbial parasite that infects humans and but needs cats to complete…
New pharmaceutical target reverses osteoporosis in mice
Biomedical engineers have discovered that an adenosine receptor called A2B can be pharmaceutically activated to…
Understanding the animal brain could help robots wash your dishes
Neuroscientists show how evolution and animal brains can be a rich source of inspiration for…
Health records pin broad set of health risks on genetic premutation
Researchers have found that there may be a much broader health risk to carriers of…