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- 2021.07.15 Research Results Life & Health
- Biomolecular bonsai: Controlling the pruning and strengthening of neuron branches
- Researchers identify molecular cues that make developing neurons remodel their connections
- 2021.07.02 Research Results Life & Health
- Uncovering the genetic mechanism behind Rett syndrome
- Dysfunction in key gene causes neural stem cells to produce more astrocytes than neurons
- 2021.06.16 Research Results Physics & Chemistry Technology
- Researchers create switchable mirrors from liquid metal
- Approach could be used to create electrically controlled mirrors for art or advanced devices
- 2021.06.04 Research Results Life & Health
- How do bad kidneys lead to heart disease? Broken cellular clocks provide new clues
- Researchers find how chronic kidney disease induces heart inflammation through white blood cells
- 2021.05.19 Research Results Physics & Chemistry Materials Technology
- Cheap, non-toxic material for photoactive electronics and chemistry in the spotlight
- Successful synthesis of perovskite visible-light-absorbing semiconductor material
- 2021.04.26 Research Results Life & Health
- Effect of cool airflow on comfort more than just a feeling
- Study uses both subjective and physiological measurements to show the influence of cooling airflow direction on comfort
- 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