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Permian carbo-loading: How starchy treats helped build an ancient world
Everyone loves a nice plate of pasta. After all, starch is the ultimate energy food. Now, we have proof that carbo-loading has been a...
The shape of things to come for quantum materials?
For the first time, researchers isolated and characterized atomically thin 2-D crystals of pentagons bonded together in palladium diselenide (PdSe2). The research confirmed predictions...
‘Obesity paradox’ debunked
Put down that second helping of chocolate cake.
A new study debunks the "obesity paradox," a counterintuitive finding that showed people who have been diagnosed...
Physicists build bizarre molecules called ‘Rydberg polarons’
Using lasers, U.S. and Austrian physicists have coaxed ultracold strontium atoms into complex structures unlike any previously seen in nature.
"I am amazed that we've...
Personalizing wearable devices
When it comes to soft, assistive devices -- like the exosuit being designed by the Harvard Biodesign Lab -- the wearer and the robot...
RNA-based therapy cures lung cancer in mouse models
By turning down the activity of a specific RNA molecule researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden, have cured lung tumors in mice by 40-50 percent....
Unlocking the secrets of the universe
Long ago, about 400,000 years after the beginning of the universe (the Big Bang), the universe was dark. There were no stars or galaxies,...
Super-resolution microscopy in both space and time
Super-resolution microscopy is a technique that can "see" beyond the diffraction of light, providing unprecedented views of cells and their interior structures and organelles....
New structure discovered in human sperm tails
A highly effective tail is needed in order for a sperm to be able to swim, and for a baby to be conceived. By...
Powerful new imaging method reveals in detail how particles move in solution
New research published in Nature Methods will dramatically improve how scientists "see inside" molecular structures in solution, allowing for much more precise ways to image data...
Scientists link genes to brain anatomy in autism
A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has discovered that specific genes are linked to individual differences in brain anatomy in autistic...
