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- 2021.04.06 Research Results Math & Data Environment & Sustainability
- Ushering in a new age of urban energy efficiency with smart buildings
- Buildings utilizing artificial intelligence promise to reduce energy consumption through better control and optimization
- 2021.04.01 Research Results Life & Health
- Protein deficiency linked to fluid buildup in brain
- New research shows that dysfunction of the protein Tsukushi causes hydrocephalus by altering neuron generation in the mouse brain
- 2021.03.11 Research Results Technology Environment & Sustainability
- Understanding adhesion, one molecule at a time
- Researchers observe adhesion of a single polymer chain on a surface in their quest to develop an innovative adhesion technology
- 2021.03.10 Research Results Math & Data Physics & Chemistry Environment & Sustainability
- Air pollutant reductions could enhance global warming without greenhouse gas cuts
- Modeling predicts that loss of cooling effect attributed to sulfate aerosols will increase surface air temperature if air pollution and carbon dioxide are not simultaneously reduced
- 2021.03.09 Research Results Life & Health Materials
- Molecular traffic key to keeping cellular highways maintained
- Biomolecular motors transporting cargo within the cells found to wear down intracellular highways, prompting autonomous repair
- 2021.03.05 Research Results Math & Data Physics & Chemistry Environment & Sustainability
- Making sense of commotion under the ocean to locate tremors near deep-sea faults
- New method for more accurately estimating the location of tectonic tremors in deep ocean faults could help to better understand earthquake rupture processes
- 2021.03.03 Research Results Life & Health Physics & Chemistry
- New technique reveals details of membrane structures
- Researchers gain new insight into the packing of molecules in lipid-raft-like ordered domains using a technique called low-flux scanning electron diffraction
- 2021.02.25 Research Results Life & Health Math & Data
- The mathematics of sperm generation
- Modeling of spatial patterns in stages of sperm formation provides new tool for investigating reproductive biology
- 2021.02.09 Research Results Life & Health Materials Technology
- New ink jet approach offers simple way to print microdisk lasers for biosensing
- 2021.02.01 Research Results Life & Health
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Feeding regimen could help reverse decline in Japanese black cattle
- High volumes of milk replacer improve growth of calves and reduce age of first birth
- 2021.01.22 Research Results Life & Health
- New cell source promising for treatment of liver diseases
- Researchers directly reprogram cells into human hepatic progenitor cells capable of proliferating and differentiating into two key cells of the liver
- 2021.01.14 Research Results Materials Environment & Sustainability
- Nanobubbles offer green solution for inhibiting corrosion
- Environmentally friendly, low-cost, and easy-to-use nanobubbles shown to mitigate steel corrosion in acidic geothermal water
- 2021.01.08 Research Results Life & Health
- Which came first, sleep or the brain?
- Researchers find that, despite lacking a brain, Hydra exhibit characteristics at a molecular and genetic level associated with sleep in animals with central nervous systems
- 2021.01.06 Research Results Life & Health
- Mechanism connects epilepsy and enzyme deficiency
- Findings also valuable for the 2% of Japanese with less-active version of the key enzyme
- 2021.01.05 Research Results Physics & Chemistry Materials Technology
- Long live the efficient, pure-blue OLED
- Novel approach shows promise for overcoming the bottleneck of blue emission in displays using organic light-emitting diodes
- 2020.12.24 Research Results Life & Health
- Diseased gums shown to produce Alzheimer’s-related protein fragments
- Study provides clues to the mechanism linking periodontitis and Alzheimer's disease
- 2020.12.24 Research Results Life & Health
- Life arrives at same solution using different molecular approaches
- Study shows that two catalysts with the same function essentially employ the same technique despite being based on different molecular species
- 2020.12.22 Research Results Life & Health
- Barrier ahead? No problem for DNA replication
- Study gives new insight into the mechanism underlying maintenance of genome stability in difficult-to-replicate regions
- 2020.12.17 Research Results Life & Health
- Oh so simple: Eight genes enough to convert mouse stem cells into oocyte-like cells
- Surprisingly simple method could provide a new tool for producing specialized cytoplasm for reproductive medicine
- 2020.12.14 Research Results Life & Health Physics & Chemistry
- Viewing cell colony expansion through statistical physics
- Study gives new insight into how cell colonies spread