Developing new antifungal treatments is a rising health priority due to an alarming rise in multidrug-resistant fungal "superbugs" that evade medications clinicians have relied on for decades.
Biochemistry
Jan 25, 2023
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What happens in an explosion? Where do the products of that explosion go following the blast? These questions are often difficult to solve. New rugged tracer particles, developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) ...
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 23, 2022
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Sometimes, in creating an alloy out of multiple metals, defects and structural instability can occur in the material. Now, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are harnessing those imperfections ...
Materials Science
Oct 26, 2022
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Scientists have begun turning to new tools offered by machine learning to help save time and money. In the past several years, nuclear physics has seen a flurry of machine learning projects come online, with many papers published ...
General Physics
Oct 13, 2022
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NASA will on Monday attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 26, 2022
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Bet the dinosaurs wish they'd thought of this.
Planetary Sciences
Sep 23, 2022
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Have you ever wondered about the carbon impact of growing your dinner? Scientists have just come up with a new way to calculate part of it.
Environment
Aug 4, 2022
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For the first time, researchers can offer a strong quantitative definition for the start of what is known as the Anthropocene, thanks to traces of radioactive material in marine sediments and corals. The Anthropocene period ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 5, 2022
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The application of mechanic forces to the cell nucleus affects the transport of proteins through the nuclear membrane, an action that controls cellular processes and could play a key role in several diseases such as cancer. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 10, 2022
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Where does the proton get its spin? This question has puzzled physicists ever since experiments in the 1980s revealed that a proton's constituent quarks—the most fundamental building blocks of atomic nuclei—account for ...
General Physics
Oct 12, 2021
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