Ploughing and tilling soil on slopes is jeopardizing future farm yields

Plowing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm soils to thin and threatens future crop…

Nanoparticle vaccine protects against a spectrum of COVID-19-causing variants and related viruses

A new type of vaccine provides protection against a variety of SARS-like betacoronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 variants,…

COVID-19 virus spike protein flexibility improved by human cell's own modifications

When the coronavirus causing COVID-19 infects human cells, the cell’s protein-processing machinery makes modifications to the…

Researchers discover a voltage that depends on the wavelength of incident light

Scientists from the Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives at Osaka University discovered a new…

New photocatalytic membrane that can be cleaned using light energy

An international collaboration lead by Kobe University researchers has successfully developed a nanosheet-laminated photocatalytic membrane that…

8,000 kilometers per second: Star with the shortest orbital period around black hole discovered

Researchers at the University of Cologne and Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) have discovered the…

Bring back the wolves, but not as heroes or villains

In a new finding that goes against current conservation paradigms, re-introducing wolves and other predators to…

Scientists discover cancer trigger that could spur targeted drug therapies

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have definitively linked the function of…

Novel atomic device to search for exotic physical interactions at submillimeter range

A research group led by Prof. Sheng Dong and Prof. Lu Zhengtian from University of Science…

Plant-based prawns to protect the marine environment

Around the world, people are consuming more and more fish and seafood, such as mussels and…