New research makes strong case for restoring Hong Kong’s lost oyster reefs
Seven square meters of a HK oyster reef can filter up to one Olympic swimming pool of water in a ...
Month: December 2020
Korean artificial sun, KSTAR, sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million °C
Aims to continuously operate high-temperature plasma over the 100-million-degree for 300 seconds by 2025 The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research(KSTAR), ...
Shapeshifting crystals-varying stability in different forms of gallium selenide monolayers
Researchers investigate the structure and properties of a recently identified polymorph of gallium selenide crystal layerCredit: Hirokazu Nitta from Japan ...
Common diabetes drug may trigger rare complications for COVID-19 patients
Brigham physicians urge ill patients to pause SGLT2i use, especially if they suspect infection with COVID-19 Diabetes is a known ...
NTU Singapore study suggests link between word choices and extraverts
A study by a team of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) psychologists has found a link between extraverts and ...
Novel method reveals small microplastics throughout Japan’s subtropical ocean
Credit: OIST Research conducted in the Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ...
Scientists find out how nutrition affects the recovery of patients after cardiac surgery
People with valvular heart disease have appeared to be at risk.Credit: SPbU Nutrients are the structural components of food that ...
Primordial black holes and the search for dark matter from the multiverse
Credit: Kavli IPMU The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) is home to many ...
Discovery boosts theory that life on Earth arose from RNA-DNA mix
Newly described chemical reaction could have assembled DNA building blocks before life forms and their enzymes existed. LA JOLLA, CA--Chemists ...
Model used to evaluate lockdowns was flawed
In a recent study, researchers from Imperial College London developed a model to assess the effect of different measures used ...
Skoltech releases a new book, The Forefront of Physics
Credit: Timur Sabirov/Skoltech The book comes as the second part of Skoltech's two-volume edition, Mathematics and Physics: Two Perspectives, One ...
High-speed atomic force microscopy takes on intrinsically disordered proteins
Credit: Kanazawa University Our understanding of biological proteins does not always correlate with how common or important they are. Half ...
Evidence for a massive paleo-tsunami at ancient Tel Dor, Israel
Paleo-tsunami may be the reason previous archaeological surveys found no evidence for low-lying coastal villages in the area over a ...
Archaeologists from Kuzbass created a 3D model of a part of the Tepsei archaeological site
Archaeologists from Kuzbass created a 3D model of a part of the Tepsei archaeological site accommodating a dense cluster of ...
Astrocytes eat connections to maintain plasticity in adult brains
Credit: KAIST Developing brains constantly sprout new neuronal connections called synapses as they learn and remember. Important connections -- the ...
Understanding the basis of Catalysis and Catalytic processes
Catalysis is an area of chemical sciences which has fascinated a wide range of academicians, researchers, chemical technologists and industries ...
Science Partner Journal BioDesign Research celebrates successful 1st International BioDesign Research Conference
The 1st International BioDesign Research Conference was held online in December 2020, hosted by Stanford University, University of Warwick, and ...
Human-made landscape promotes coexistence of two normally separated Andean warblers
Two Andean warbler species that typically occur at different elevations and hunt by tricking insects to escape can co-occur at ...
New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research funds Kessler Foundation study in children
Dr. Lengenfelder of Kessler Foundation will test new treatment for emotional processing deficits in children with traumatic brain injuryCredit: Kessler ...
Modeling can help balance economy, health during pandemic
Nearly 300,000 deaths could be averted, depending on how severe isolation measures becomeCredit: Washington University in St. Louis This summer, ...