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Physics & Astronomy

Ryugu Asteroid Crater Study Unveils Complex Geological History

A research group led by Assistant Professor Naoyuki Hirata of the Department of Planetology at Kobe University's Graduate School of Science revealed 77 craters…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists now know what DNA's chaperone looks like

A team of researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder has cracked the puzzle of the Facilitates Chromatin Transcription (FACT) protein structure. This…

Health & Medicine

Opioid Receptor Activation Revealed: Key Pain Relief Insights

Opioids are among the most effective painkillers available today. They include for instance morphine or oxycodone, which has been prescribed very carelessly in…

Health & Medicine

Helper Protein Linked to Worsening Diabetic Eye Disease

In a recent study using mice, lab-grown human retinal cells and patient samples, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they found evidence of a new pathway…

Environmental Conservation

Plastic Pollution Threatens Great Lakes Ecosystem, Study Warns

In an article published this month in the Journal of Waste Resources and Recycling, Gail Krantzberg, a professor in the Booth School of Engineering Practice…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights Into Light Harvesting in Green Algae

A new study by Chinese and Japanese researchers has now characterized the light-harvesting system of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a common unicellular green…

Life & Chemistry

KBRI Team Advances Dementia Research with Neurodegeneration Breakthrough

The Korea Brain Research Institute (KBRI, President Pann Ghill Suh) announced on November 12 that korean research team made up of Dr. Hyung-Jun Kim and Shinrye…

Life & Chemistry

Cerebral Organoid Model Uncovers Virus Defense Strategies

LACV is spread by mosquitoes and was first identified in the early 1960s. Most infections in people are mild but the virus sometimes–particularly in…

Life & Chemistry

Harvesting Fog: A New Source of Fresh Water in Deserts

Fog harvesting is a potential practical source of fresh water in foggy coastal deserts, and current solutions rely on meter scale nets/meshes. The mesh…

Information Technology

“Knowledge4Retail”: Artificial Intelligence in Retail

“The funding of the Knowledge4Retail project is a great success for the scientific and economic location Bremen,” states Professor Michael Beetz, director of…

Materials Sciences

Unlocking Perovskites: A New Era in Solar Energy Innovation

Versatile compounds called perovskites are valued for their application in next generation solar energy technologies. Despite their efficiency and relative…

Life & Chemistry

The 'Signal Cell' relaying microbiota signals discovered

Professor Seung-Woo Lee, Research Professor Yunji Park, Master/PhD integrated program students, Seungwon Lee and Hyekang Kim of Division of Integrative…

Life & Chemistry

DNA Star Design Enables Ultra-Sensitive Dengue Test

By folding snippets of DNA into the shape of a five-pointed star using structural DNA nanotechnology, researchers have created a trap that captures Dengue…

Materials Sciences

Unique Magnetic Transitions in Quasicrystal Structures Unveiled

In the world of materials science, many have heard of crystals, highly ordered structures in which atoms are arranged in a tight and periodic manner (in which…

Life & Chemistry

Smart Reactions: Online Design of Catalytic Pockets

The software generates topographic steric maps and has been developed by Luigi Cavallo's research group at the KAUST Catalysis Research Center. The source code…

Information Technology

pinMOS: New Memory Device for Optical and Electrical Use

Another novelty was related to the measurements in the test series: They were carried out exclusively using the innovative “SweepMe!” measuring software, which…

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