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Researchers find a way to improve memory by suppressing a molecule that links aging to Alzheimer’s disease

The researchers even succeeded, for the first time, in manipulating the molecule’s operations without creating any cognitive impairment.

Earth Sciences

New Method to Measure Ocean Acidification’s Impact on Ecosystems

Following a 5,000 km long ocean survey, research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences presents a new way to measure how the…

Life & Chemistry

New Clock Measures Brain Waves to Enhance Attention

Oscillations of brain activity influence our attention and many other mental functions. Tatjana Tchumatchenko from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research…

Materials Sciences

New Model Enhances Understanding of Thin-Film Lattice Dynamics

A research team from Germany developed an analytical model to describe the structural dynamics of photoexcited thin films and verified it by ultrafast X-ray…

Earth Sciences

How Water Shaped Mars: Unveiling the Planet’s Past

Why does the cold, barren surface of Mars contain geological features that appear to have been formed by flowing water: river valleys, lake basins, and deltas?…

Life & Chemistry

Cells’ Natural Response to Chronic Protein Misfolding May Do More Harm than Good

The researchers examined patient cells and animal models of several diseases that feature chronic protein misfolding and found that in each case, a cellular…

Physics & Astronomy

Field-Emission Solution Simplifies Microwave Electron Guns

On a quest to design an alternative to the two complex approaches currently used to produce electrons within microwave electron guns, a team of researchers…

Earth Sciences

Small Volcanic Eruptions May Help Slow Global Warming

Scientists have long known that volcanoes can cool the atmosphere, mainly by means of sulfur dioxide gas that eruptions expel. Droplets of sulfuric acid that…

Life & Chemistry

Paramecia Navigate Using Newton’s Laws of Motion

For such humble creatures, single-celled paramecia have remarkable sensory systems. Give them a sharp jab on the nose, they back up and swim away. Jab them in…

Earth Sciences

Ancient New Zealand 'Dawn Whale' identified by Otago researchers

Otago Department of Geology PhD student Robert Boessenecker and his supervisor Professor Ewan Fordyce have named the new genus Tohoraata, which translates as…

Materials Sciences

Scientists get to the heart of fool's gold as a solar material

Theoretically, iron pyrite — a cheap compound that makes a common mineral known as fool's gold — could do the job, but when it works at all, the conversion…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking Hox Genes: Beyond Fins and Limbs in Evolution

Hox genes are master body-building genes that specify where an animal's head, tail and everything in between should go. There's even a special Hox gene program…

Life & Chemistry

Mind the gap — how new insight into cells could lead to better drugs

Professor Davis says: “We studied the immune system and then stumbled across something that may explain why some drugs don't work as well as hoped. We found…

Earth Sciences

Land-Based Carbon Mitigation: Key to Climate Stability

However, future land-management will be crucial to fulfill human needs. Both objectives, climate mitigation and fulfilling human needs, can only be achieved by…

Health & Medicine

Gutenberg Brain Study & Mainz Resilience Project launch study on resilience mechanisms in the brain

Why do some people become mentally ill when exposed to stress while others do not? Which genetic factors underlie the processes that maintain our mental…

Technology Offerings

Light-Induced Carbonylation of Aryl Derivatives Explained

This invention describes a new process for the carbonylation of aryl derivatives with the aid of a metal-free organic photocatalyst.

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