Information transport in antiferromagnets via pseudospin-magnons
A team of researchers has discovered an exciting method for controlling spin carried by quantized…
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New use for an old drug: How does ketamine combat depression?
A group of proteins called 4E-BPs, involved in memory formation, is the key to unlocking…
Effects of organohalogen pollution are coded in gene expression profiles of Baltic salmon
Researchers have measured hepatic organohalogen (OHC) concentrations and gene expression profiles in Atlantic salmon collected…
Biodiversity collections, vital for pandemic preparedness, face drop in specimen deposits
While the importance of natural history museums to human health has never been higher, in…
Invention may get quadcopters to move faster
Researchers believe a new hinge is the key to get load-bearing, large, Army quadrotors to…
Researcher identifies gene teams working in subregions of brain
You must first understand how something works normally before you can figure out why it’s…
Colorful, magnetic Janus balls could help foil counterfeiters
Counterfeiters who sell knockoffs of popular shoes, handbags and other items are becoming increasingly sophisticated,…
Astronomers detect possible radio emission from exoplanet
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has…
Bigger and better ‘tweezer clock’ is super stable
Physicists have boosted the signal power of their atomic ‘tweezer clock’ and measured its performance…
New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely
A newly-designed atomic clock uses entangled atoms to keep time even more precisely than its…
Oh so simple: Eight genes enough to convert mouse stem cells into oocyte-like cells
By activating just eight genes for transcription factors, researchers have directly converted mouse stem cells…
When dinosaurs disappeared, forests thrived
To understand how specific ecosystems were affected by the meteorite impact that led to the…
A pair of lonely planet-like objects born like stars
An international research team has discovered an exotic binary system composed of two young planet-like…
The human helpers of SARS-CoV-2
Proteins are the functional units of the cell and enable the virus to enter the…
New insights into Fragile X syndrome and the fetal brain
Researchers have revealed further insight into the fetal development of our brain and the potential…
Three pillars of mental health: Good sleep, exercise, raw fruits and veggies
Getting good quality sleep, exercising, and eating more raw fruits and vegetables predicts better mental…
Lipid identified in human breast milk may play important role in early childhood weight
A lipid metabolite called 12,13-diHOME is in human breast milk. The authors of the study…
The DNA regions in our brain that contribute to make us human
With only 1% difference, the human and chimpanzee protein-coding genomes are remarkably similar. Understanding the…
Babbler bird falls into climate change trap
Animals can fall into an ‘ecological trap’ by altering their behavior in the ‘wrong direction’…
Extracting precious zinc from waste ash
Incineration of solid waste produces millions of tons of waste fly ash in Europe each…
A new method for the functionalization of graphene
A research team has demonstrated a novel process to modify the structure and properties of…
An avocado a day keeps your gut microbes happy, study shows
Eating avocado as part of your daily diet can help improve gut health, a new…
Researchers turn DNA detectives to aid rhino poaching prosecutions with forensic evidence
Researchers have, for the first time, used unique DNA markers to provide forensic evidence for…
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Immune cell that drives breast cancer could be effective target in novel immunotherapies
Researchers have identified a type of immune cells that acts as a major driver of…
Attitudes about climate change are shifting, even in Texas
Longstanding skepticism among Texans toward the climate movement has shifted, and attitudes in the nation’s…
AI model shows promise to generate faster, more accurate weather forecasts
A model based solely on the past 40 years of weather events uses 7,000 times…
Error correction means California’s future wetter winters may never come
After probing a persistent error in widely used models, researchers estimate that California will likely…
Accurate neural network computer vision without the ‘black box’
New research offers clues to what goes on inside the minds of machines as they…
Plastics pose threat to human health, report shows
Plastics contain and leach hazardous chemicals, including endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that threaten human health. An…
Weak force has strong impact on nanosheets
Rice University scientists find the ubiquitous, ”weak” van der Waals force is sufficient to indent…
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language
Neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain…
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Researchers identify where giant jets from black holes discharge their energy
Scientists have disagreed about where powerful jets from black holes discharge their energy. A new…
Engineers develop soft robotic gripper
Scientists often look to nature for cues when designing robots – some robots mimic human…
Primitive fish fossils reveal developmental origins of teeth
Teeth and hard structures called dermal odontodes are evolutionarily related, arising from the same developmental…
Engineers go microbial to store energy, sequester CO2
By borrowing nature’s blueprints for photosynthesis, bioengineers have found a way to efficiently absorb and…
Drug may boost vaccine responses in older adults
A drug that boosts the removal of cellular debris in immune cells may increase the…
RNA basic building block produced biocatalytically for the first time
Researchers succeed in the first enzyme-driven biocatalytic synthesis of nucleic acid building blocks. This facilitates…
Study IDs four things that make people feel good about using chatbots
A recent study has identified four factors that predict user satisfaction with customer service chatbots….
Undruggable diseases gain a new RNA drug-discovery tool
A new RNA-targeting tool enables scientists to tackle difficult molecular recognition problems to aid drug…
The melting of the Greenland ice sheet could lead to a sea level rise of 18 cm in 2100
A new study, applying the latest climate models, of which the MAR predicts a 60%…
Genes play a role in common knee injury
It has long been known that the choice of shoe, surface and type of sport…
The farthest galaxy in the universe
A team of astronomers used the Keck I telescope to measure the distance to an…
Fractured bedrock in forests is overlooked source of natural CO2
According to a new study, CO2 is being produced deep underground in bedrock fractures. This…
Possibilities of new one-atom-thick materials
New 2D materials have the potential to transform technologies, but they’re expensive and difficult to…
Powerful electrical events quickly alter surface chemistry on Mars, other planetary bodies
On Earth, dust particles are viewed mainly in terms of their physical effects, like erosion….
Digital trackers for mental health not yet fit for purpose
Digital tracking of people with mental health conditions has the power to transform medical diagnostics…
Wireless, ultra-thin and battery-free strain sensors that are 10 times more sensitive
A research team has developed a new range of strain sensors that are 10 times…
Creating a ground plan for stonefly evolution
A team has microscopically examined the eggs of stoneflies to identify ground plan features and…
‘Earable’ computing: A new research area in the making
A research group is defining a new sub-area of mobile technology that they call ‘earable…
Proteins enable crop-infecting fungi to ‘smell’ food
New research shows the same proteins that enable human senses such as smell also allow…