An interdisciplinary group of researchers is proposing a new way to think of some interactions between species, classifying a variety of plants, animals and fungi as “nature’s chefs.”
University of Houston Researchers Exploring the Bounds of Room-Temperature Superconductivity
A team of engineering and health researchers has developed a tool that improves the ability of electronic devices to detect when a human patient is coughing, which has applications in health monitoring.
Study Finds Females Reported Significantly Higher Mental Stress
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an electronic patch that can be applied to the leaves of plants to monitor crops for different pathogens – such as viral and fungal infections – and stresses such as drought or salinity.
Nature Ecology and Evolution Study Reveals Precipitation’s Effect on Plant-Soil Interaction
Because diabetes is the leading cause of new, preventable cases of blindness in working aged adults in the United States, medical experts suggest patients have dilated eye examinations after their first diabetes diagnosis.
North Carolina State University researchers have shown that adding a small amount of a chemical used in perfumes – nonanal – to a two-chemical combination of other sex pheromones helped increase the cocktail’s effectiveness in mimicking female fall armyworm “come hither” calls to males.
An international group of researchers has created a mixed magnon state in an organic hybrid perovskite material by utilizing the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya-Interaction (DMI).
Expanding work permits for undocumented immigrants could fix the United States immigration system’s “large, overlooked and often invisible crack” that fails to account for essential workers
Light-powered catalyst makes hydrogen energy from pungent gas in one-step process
Rice lab’s 3D electrode array reveals millisecond evolution of synaptic activity
Rice lab develops procedure to find large deletions, other anomalies in ‘on-target’ CRISPR-Cas9 editing
In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers had 28 high school students create their own machine-learning artificial intelligence (AI) models for analyzing data.
A new online tool – the first of its kind for plant pathogens – will help researchers across the globe identify, detect and monitor species of Phytophthora, which have been responsible for plant diseases ranging from the devastating 1840s Irish potato famine to sudden oak death that still plagues in West Coast oak populations.
A North Carolina State University-led study found it is possible to retrieve forensically relevant information from human DNA in household dust.
Life in the ocean’s “twilight zone” could decline dramatically due to climate change, new research suggests.
A world-leading international trial into the immune boosting benefits of a tuberculosis vaccine has found it does not protect healthcare workers against COVID-19.
Fungal spores found in dung have revealed that large animals went extinct in two “waves” in the Colombian Andes.
A new study has highlighted under-prepared regions across the world most at risk of the devastating effects of scorching temperatures.