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Nature's speed limits aren't posted on road signs, but physicists have discovered a new way to deduce them that is better -- infinitely better, in some cases -- than prior methods.
168 articles from FRIDAY 4.9.2020
Nature's speed limits aren't posted on road signs, but physicists have discovered a new way to deduce them that is better -- infinitely better, in some cases -- than prior methods.
Researchers have developed a unique method for precisely controlling the deposition of hydrogel, which is made of water-soluble polymers commonly used to support cells in experiments or for therapeutic purposes. The researchers noticed that their technique - which allows for the encapsulation of a single cell within a minute hydrogel droplet - can be used to coax bone marrow stem cells into...
A team of researchers from Chile, Hungary, and Spain has created a model to show the factors that can result in heat death in multiple species of fruit flies. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes using established mathematical models to predict heat death under different scenarios and comparing it with heat tolerance data from prior research efforts. Raymond Huey...
There is a fair amount of archeological evidence that indicates complex behavior among our ancestors. For instance, there are bone tools that were used as hunting projectiles, for working leather or for processing plants. Ochre remnants were used for body and rock painting. But plants and their products have rarely been reported to embody this type of complex behavior.
New genetic research finds spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD, heart attacks may be more similar to different diseases than to other heart attacks.
From MasterChef to MKR, the world's best chefs have taught us how to barbeque, grill and panfry a steak to perfection. But while the experts may be seeking that extra flavor, new research suggests high-heat caramelization could be bad for our health.
Researchers have identified a small neutralizing antibody, a so-called nanobody, that has the capacity to block SARS-CoV-2 from entering human cells. The researchers believe this nanobody has the potential to be developed as an antiviral treatment against COVID-19.
The world's oceans soak up more carbon than most scientific models suggest, according to new research.
To better understand the properties of blood cells, an international team has been examining variations in the DNA of 746,667 people worldwide.
Males elephants were long assumed to be loners, but new research that shows older males — like their female counterparts — play an important role in elephants' complex...
The number of mammoth skeletons recovered at an airport construction site north of Mexico City has risen to at least 200, with a large number still to be excavated, experts said...
The Oscar winner falters on a pioneering mission to Mars, in a glossy, saccharine Netflix series that’s more mundane than out of this worldThere is an unexpectedly old-fashioned feel to Away (Netflix), the glossy and ambitious new space drama led by two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank. At times, it resembles a blockbuster film from the 90s, at others, a big, mainstream television show from the...
An enormous and strange machine is being tested in the Squamish Valley, as its creator begins to train adventurous donors to the project on how to operate the unique mechanized...
More than 170 teams of researchers are racing to develop a safe and effective vaccine. Here is their progressResearchers around the world are racing to develop a vaccine against Covid-19, with more than 170 candidate vaccines now tracked by the World Health Organization (WHO). Continue...
The absolute model age (AMA), or geologic age of Finsen crater on the moon's far side is determined to be about 3.5 billion years (Ga) based on crater counting method, according to a study published in Icarus.
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) are promising in electrocatalysis processes due to their maximum utilization of active species.
A joint research team led by Prof. Cong Zhiyuan from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) found that Arctic sea-ice loss intensifies aerosol transport to the Tibetan Plateau (TP).
Locusts are threatening another part of Africa, with up to 7 million people in the southern region facing further food insecurity, the United Nations said Friday.
The world's oceans soak up more carbon than most scientific models suggest, according to new research.
Former Italian PM hospitalised as a precautionary measure after testing positive for Covid Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageItaly’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is being treated in hospital for Covid-19.Berlusconi, who turns 84 this month, was taken to the San Raffaele hospital in Milam on Thursday night as a precautionary measure. He has not been admitted...
Long before the world had ever heard of covid-19, Kay Tye set out to answer a question that has taken on new resonance in the age of social distancing: When people feel lonely, do they crave social interactions in the same way a hungry person craves food? And could she and her colleagues detect and…
When a Norwegian company needed help testing its new video simulation game Fishing: North Atlantic, one of the people they turned to was a 16-year-old honour student from a tiny fishing port in eastern Nova...
Big oil producers are pinning their future growth on the world's insatiable appetite for plastic, researchers said Friday, in a "bet" on society's failure to tackle disposable consumption that risks stranding billions of dollars in petrochemical investments.
The number of mammoth skeletons recovered at an airport construction site north of Mexico City has risen to at least 200, with a large number still to be excavated, experts said Thursday.
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the steps taken by one Toronto highrise to bring its waste down to almost zero, and how meteorologists talk about the weather - and what that means for our understanding of extreme...