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Steering electrical current with spinning light
This image shows a false-colored electron microscope image of the University of Minnesota device. The blue area marks the topological insulator on top of...
Unexpected side effect to cleaning up urban air discovered
Los Angeles, California (stock image). Decades of efforts to reduce air pollution have led to cleaner air in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities.
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Vengeance is sweet and expensive
Girl yelling (stock photo).
Credit: © ulkas / Fotolia
When we see somebody suffering, we normally feel uneasy and want to help. However, this feeling can...
Brain lesions, criminal behavior linked to moral decision-making network
Crime scene tape (stock image).
Credit: © prathaan / Fotolia
When brain lesions occur within the brain network responsible for morality and value-based decision-making, they can...
Viral infections kill millions of people worldwide every year, but currently available antiviral drugs...
Cosmic rays interacting with the Earth's atmosphere producing ions that helps turn small aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei -- seeds on which liquid water...
Lyme bacteria survive 28-day course of antibiotics months after infection
Living B. burgdorferi spirochetes were found in ticks that fed upon primates and in multiple organs after treatment with 28 days of doxycycline, report...
The shrinking moose of Isle Royale
The researchers measured the length, width and height of moose skulls to study the impact of climate change on the iconic Northwoods species. The...
Marine turtles dying after becoming entangled in plastic rubbish
Plastic pollution threatens sea turtles.
Credit: © Richard Carey / Fotolia
Hundreds of marine turtles die every year after becoming entangled in rubbish in the oceans...
Designer nanoparticles destroy a broad array of viruses
A molecular dynamics model showing a nanoparticle binding to the outer envelope of the human papillomavirus.
Credit: Petr Kral
Viral infections kill millions of people worldwide...
In the footsteps of Jacques Cousteau: Researchers unveil the secret of the Blue Hole...
Professor Eberhard Gischler and his doctoral researcher Dominik Schmitt with the last piece of the stalactite recovered from the Blue Hole by Jacques Cousteau...
Warmer, wetter climate could mean stronger, more intense storms
Average composite reflectivity over the CONUS (contiguous US) domain in all 13 years of the simulations are shown by season (May-June and July-August) and...
