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Mini microscope is the new GoPro for studies of brain disease in living mice

Working with mice, a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers has developed a relatively inexpensive, portable mini microscope that could improve scientists' ability to image the effects of cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's disease and other conditions in the brains of living and active mice over time.

Droughts could hit aging power plants hard

Warmer, lower rivers from climate change might leave some US power plants high and dry DURHAM, N. C. -- Older power plants with once-through cooling systems generate about a third of all U.

In the tree of life, youth has its advantages

It's a question that has captivated naturalists for centuries: Why have some groups of organisms enjoyed incredibly diversity--like fish, birds, insects--while others have contained only a few species--like humans.

Artificial womb technology breaks its 4 minute mile

A major advancement in pioneering technology based around the use of an artificial womb to save extremely premature babies is being hailed as a medical and biotechnological breakthrough.

Aspirin to fight an expensive global killer infection

Centenary Institute in Sydney has found a brand new target for treating drug-resistant tuberculosis; our scientists have uncovered that the tuberculosis bacterium hijacks platelets from the body's blood clotting system to weaken our immune systems

Engineering cellular function without living cells

Genes in living cells are activated - or not - by proteins called transcription factors. The mechanisms by which these proteins activate certain genes and deactivate others play a fundamental role in many biological processes.

Smart speaker technology harnessed for hospital medical treatments

Smart speakers that are customarily used in your living room can be programmed to act as an aid to physicians in hospital operating rooms, according to new research presented today at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting.

Study examines commercial hybrid-electric aircraft, reduced carbon emissions

Although we're still a long way from commercial airplanes powered by a combination of fossil fuel and batteries, a recent feasibility study at the University of Illinois explored fuel/battery configurations and the energy lifecycle to learn the tradeoffs needed to yield the greatest reductions in carbon dioxide emissions.

Race at the edge of the Sun: Ions are faster than atoms

Astrophysicists observe physics phenomena in gas streams Ions move faster than atoms in the gas streams of a solar prominence. Scientists at the University of Göttingen, the Institut d'Astrophysique in Paris and the Istituto Ricerche Solari Locarno have observed this.

Traffic control of cells

Cells in the human body can display remarkable differences in their behavior depending on the mechanical properties of the tissue surrounding them.

Listening to the quantum vacuum

Since the historic finding of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding over a billion light years away was made in 2015, physicists are advancing knowledge about the limits on the precision of the measurements that will help improve the next generation of tools and technology used by gravitational wave scientists.

Key evidence associating hydrophobicity with effective acid catalysis

Quantitative analysis of dense siloxane gels shows water can hinder catalytic activity Tokyo, Japan - Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have shown that the tunable hydrophobic nature of dense siloxane gels is strongly correlated with their catalytic activity, explicitly demonstrating how molecules with different hydrophobic nature at the molecular level interact differently with surfaces of differing hydrophobicity.

Tuberculosis Eradication by 2045

Experts have declared that they are looking at the eradication of the dreaded Tuberculosis by year 2045. Nobody has to die of it again.

Hundreds of bubble streams link biology, seismology off Washington's coast

Off the coast of Washington, columns of bubbles rise from the seafloor, as if evidence of a sleeping dragon lying below. But these bubbles are methane that is squeezed out of sediment and rises up through the water. The locations where they emerge provide important clues to what will happen during a major offshore earthquake.
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