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Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Chemical Helps Plants Retain Water Amid Drought Challenges

A UC Riverside-led team has created a chemical to help plants hold onto water, which could stem the tide of massive annual crop losses from drought and help…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Dense Networks in the Cerebral Cortex

Unlike any other organ, our brains contain extremely densely packed networks of membranous cables that are used by our about 86 billion nerve cells for…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Microbiome Functions: Insights into Living Organisms

All living creatures – from the simplest animal and plant organisms right up to the human body – are colonised by numerous microorganisms. They are thus in a…

Information Technology

Color Patch Disrupts Self-Driving Car Optical Flow Systems

A team of researchers in Tübingen show that optical flow systems based on deep neural networks – a likely component of future autonomous cars – are vulnerable…

Information Technology

New Algorithm Boosts Social Media Post Popularity

Computer scientists created a new algorithm to recommend tags for social media posts which should boost the popularity of the post in question. This algorithm…

Information Technology

Quantum Internet Advances with Secure Communication Breakthrough

As of yet, there are no universal quantum computers in the world. But for the first time, an international team led by TUM physicists Rudolf Gross, Frank Deppe…

Life & Chemistry

Self-Assembled Nanocage: A Breakthrough in Nanospace Design

Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Copenhagen have built a self-assembled nanocage with a very…

Life & Chemistry

New Chemical Weapon Targets Cancer Cells More Effectively

The fight against cancer involves eradicating cancer cells but current treatments inevitably have negative consequences on healthy cells. Patients often…

Environmental Conservation

Rethinking Plastic Recycling: New Innovations Ahead

We depend on plastics in our daily life — not just for conveniences like plastic bags and bottles, but also for essential applications like food packaging and…

Life & Chemistry

Gut Health’s Impact on Brain Wellness: Key Research Findings

Over the last two decades, scientists have observed a clear link between autoimmune disorders and a variety of psychiatric conditions. For example, people with…

Physics & Astronomy

Shark Fins and Owl Droplets: Innovations in Aquatic Design

When one imagines a swimmer, their image would probably be of either an Olympian performing the front-crawl, a Salmon fighting upstream, or a shark racing…

Life & Chemistry

Marmoset Monkeys Discover New Dialect Variations

Human beings aren’t the only species that have dialects. The calls and songs of various animal species also vary from one region to the next. For example,…

Life & Chemistry

New Antibiotics with Unique Mechanism to Combat Resistance

The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance is a matter of global concern. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), particularly Gram-negative…

Medical Engineering

Transforming 2D Plans into Flexible 3D Structures

DGIST announced that Professor Sohee Kim's research team in the Department of Robotics Engineering succeeded in developing a technology to produce flexible 3D…

Physics & Astronomy

Researchers Observe Quantum Knots Untying in Groundbreaking Study

A quantum gas can be tied into knots using magnetic fields. Our researchers were the first to produce these knots as part of a collaboration between Aalto…

Materials Sciences

Composite Metal Foam: A Stronger Alternative for Aircraft Wings

“We call our hybrid material 'infused CMF,'” says Afsaneh Rabiei, corresponding author of a paper on the work and a professor of mechanical and aerospace…

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