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Tough love: intense glare helps next-gen solar tech through awkward phase
EurekAlert! - 19 Oct 2020 08:00
(ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science) Researchers have shown that high-intensity light will reverse light-induced phase segregation in mixed-halide perovskites, enabling bandgap control and maximising efficiency ...
Patients who had more severe COVID-19 may be the best donors for convalescent plasma therapy
Science Daily - 20 Oct 2020 00:49
Sex, age, and severity of disease may be useful in identifying COVID-19 survivors who are likely to have high levels of antibodies that can protect against the disease.
What Lies Between Grey and White in the Brain
Neuroscience News - 19 Oct 2020 22:38
Researchers have succeeded in making superficial white matter visible in a living human brain.
Moving microscopy beyond the resolution limit
Phys.org - 19 Oct 2020 23:57
The Polish-Israeli team from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and the Weizmann Institute of Science has made another significant achievement in fluorescent microscopy. In the pages of the Optica journal...
Newborn Brains Lack Maturity to Process Emotions as Adults Do
Neuroscience News - 19 Oct 2020 23:43
Brain regions associated with emotional processing are not functionally connected in a mature way to areas associated with auditory and visual processing in newborns.
Gene That Helps Us Know When It's Time to Urinate Discovered
Neuroscience News - 19 Oct 2020 23:03
Study implicates the PIEZO2 gene in experiencing the urge to urinate. The gene helps at least two cell types in the brain to identify when the bladder is full and needs emptying.
Half-male, half-female songbird discovered in Pennsylvania
Live Science - 19 Oct 2020 22:18
A rose-breasted grosbeak that was captured in a Pennsylvania nature reserve is a bilateral gynandromorph -- male on the right side and female on the left side.
Anglo-Saxon warlord unearthed by metal detector hobbyists
Live Science - 19 Oct 2020 15:41
Archaeologists have unearthed the rich burial of a sixth-century man thought to be an Anglo-Saxon warlord in southern England, after it was first discovered by metal detectorists.
Happy Endings Trip up the Brain's Decision-Making
Neuroscience News - 19 Oct 2020 22:12
How the brain represents and codes a pleasant outcome can have an impact on decision making.
Changes in blood metabolite profile are visible years before diagnosis of alcohol-related disease
Science Daily - 19 Oct 2020 18:34
A new study has shown that the serum metabolite profile can be used to identify individuals likely at risk of developing an alcohol-related disease in the future. The finding also opens up new avenues for preventing alco...
Severe burn damage from California wildfires seen from space
Live Science - 19 Oct 2020 18:08
New satellite imagery of California reveals not just the extent of its wildfire damage, but the depth of the loss.
Microwave lenses harnessed for multi-beam forming
Phys.org - 19 Oct 2020 16:44
This highly compact beam forming network has been designed for multi-beam satellite payload antennas. Generating a total of 64 signal beams outputted from a single antenna, this novel design could cover the entire Earth ...
HKU physicist joins international effort to unveil the behavior of "strange metals"
EurekAlert! - 19 Oct 2020 08:00
(The University of Hong Kong) An international joint research team including Dr Zi Yang MENG, Associate Professor of Department of Physics at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has solved the puzzle of the NFL behaviour ...
Covid-19 news: Wales to enter a 17-day national lockdown from Friday
New Scientist - 19 Oct 2020 21:30
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic
24 million-year-old nursery for baby megasharks discovered in South Carolina
Live Science - 19 Oct 2020 22:40
The discovery of nearly 90 shark teeth, largely from young sharks, indicates there was a shark nursery here 24 million years ago.
Ice melt in Alaska threatens to unleash unprecedented 'mega-tsunami,' scientists warn
Live Science - 19 Oct 2020 16:30
A giant, catastrophic tsunami in Alaska triggered by a landslide of rock left unstable after glacier melting is likely to occur in the next two decades, scientists fear - and it could happen within the next 12 months.
Fear and Anxiety Share Same Bases in Brain
Neuroscience News - 20 Oct 2020 01:14
Fear and anxiety share overlapping neural circuits. The findings contradict the popular belief that anxiety and fear are distinct emotions with different triggers and segregated brain circuits.
NASA is about to play 'tag' with asteroid Bennu: Here's how it will work.
Live Science - 20 Oct 2020 00:01
NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft will "TAG" asteroid Bennu Tuesday (Oct. 20) and collect a sample for return to Earth.
Keeping Weight off Is up to Your Brain, Not Just Willpower
Neuroscience News - 19 Oct 2020 23:21
Weight loss isn't simply a matter of willpower, it's actually connected to basic visual and olfactory cues.
Plastic baby bottles shed millions of microplastics when shaken
New Scientist - 19 Oct 2020 20:00
The plastic bottles used to feed babies shed an average of 4 million microplastic particles per litre into infant formula, but the impact on child health is unclear
Scientists Just Achieved Room Temperature Superconductivity for the First Time
Singularity Hub - 19 Oct 2020 18:16
Superconductivity could be the key to groundbreaking new technologies in energy, computing, and transportation, but so far it only occurs in materials chilled close to absolute zero. Now researchers have created the firs...
The body fires 'blobs of fat' packed with toxic proteins to fight bacteria
Live Science - 19 Oct 2020 17:32
Scientists have known about these 'blobs of fat' for more than 130 years, but they're just understanding all the roles they play in the body.