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Health & Medicine

Key Protein Structure Provides Clues for Better Drug Design

The new, more detailed image of A2aAR's signaling mechanism reveals key parts of its inner workings, including an amino acid that acts like a “toggle switch”…

Life & Chemistry

Obesity’s Impact on Bone Marrow Cells: New Study Insights

New research published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine highlights the pernicious effect of obesity on the long-term health of blood-making stem cells…

Physics & Astronomy

Enhancing Nuclear Fission Predictions With New Model Factor

In order to run the turbines of atomic power stations that will eventually bring us our light and internet connections, nuclear power relies on a complicated…

Physics & Astronomy

3D Atomic Structures of Dopant Atoms Enhance Semiconductor Insights

Using a combination of spectro-photoelectron holography, electrical property measurements, and first-principles dynamics simulations, the 3D atomic structures…

Life & Chemistry

Double Strike Against Tuberculosis: Tackling Antibiotic Resistance

Among the greatest challenges when treating life-threatening tuberculosis infections is the increasing resistance to antibiotics. But the pathogen itself also…

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Study Visualizes Water Molecules for Next-Gen Electronics

A team of researchers led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory used a high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering technique to measure…

Materials Sciences

Thermoelectric Power Generation: Room Temperature Breakthrough?

Osaka – Thermoelectric (TE) materials could play a key role in future technologies. Although the applications of these remarkable compounds have long been…

Materials Sciences

Designing Flexible MOFs for Enhanced Innovation

Therefore, controlling the flexibility of MOFs, or rational design and synthesis of MOFs with specified flexibility and dynamism, are of practical importance….

Materials Sciences

MSU Scientists Create Advanced Gas Sensors for Pollution Detection

Taking into account high levels of environmental pollution in the modern world, it is important to develop new sensitive devices able to identify molecules in…

Life & Chemistry

Bacteria Gain Resistance from Competing Strains in Hospitals

The frequent and sometimes careless use of antibiotics leads to an increasingly rapid spread of resistance. Hospitals are a particular hot spot for this….

Earth Sciences

East Antarctica Ice Sheet: Shrinkage or Growth in Warming?

The Antarctic research season has begun 15 December, when researchers in the international research project MAGIC-DML returned to Dronning Maud Land in…

Physics & Astronomy

Superconductivity Breakthrough: Ultracold Atoms Reveal New State

Using ultracold atoms, researchers at Heidelberg University have found an exotic state of matter where the constituent particles pair up when limited to two…

Earth Sciences

Research trip to the mouth of the Amazon River: on the trail of the ocean’s material cycle

The Amazon River is almost 7,000 km long and is not only tremendously abundant but it also transports large quantities of trace metals such as iron and copper…

Power and Electrical Engineering

World's Largest Plasma Injector Brings Commercial Fusion Energy a Step Closer

Ten times more powerful than its predecessor, the world's largest and most powerful plasma injector has begun operation at General Fusion's facilities in…

Information Technology

Unlocking New Smartphone Features with Micro-Spectrometer

Spectrometry, the analysis of visible and invisible light, has an enormous range of applications. Every material and every tissue has its own 'footprint' in…

Life & Chemistry

Reducing Lab Animal Use: The Role of Secondary Nanobodies

As a central part of our immune system, antibodies protect us humans and other vertebrates against pathogens. They are, however, also essential tools in…

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