. Scientific Frontline
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Light pollution confuses coastal woodlouse

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A woodlouse underwater. Photo Credit:  Martin Stjernstedt Artificial night-time light confuses a color-changing coastal woodlouse, new resea...

New insights into the origin of food sharing among humans

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Chimpanzees Gremlin and son Grendel, begging for food, at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Minnesota A...

A Novel Technique to Observe Colloidal Particle Degradation in Real Time

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Height images of nanoplastics degrading in real time, captured using high-speed atomic force microscopy. The left side shows a particle cont...

New way of identifying proteins supports drug development

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The illustration shows how different areas of PRC2 protein (the one on the right side) binds to survivin. The color pixel diagram shows bind...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

AI helps show how the brain’s fluids flow

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A video shows a perivascular space (area within white lines) into which the researchers injected tiny particles. The particles (shown as mov...

Next Generation Experimental Aircraft Becomes NASA’s Newest X-Plane

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The X-66A is the X-plane specifically aimed at helping the United States achieve the goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To b...

High-performing alloy developed to help harness fusion energy

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The research team demonstrated that minor additions of hafnium into the WTaCrV high entropy alloy lead to higher radiation resistance. Photo...

UC Irvine neuroscientists develop ‘meta-cell’ to move Alzheimer’s fight forward

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A research team led by Vivek Swarup, UCI assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior, has developed a new process for creating a “meta-...

Pass the salt: This space rock holds clues as to how Earth got its water

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Asteroid Itokawa as seen by the Hayabusa spacecraft. The peanut-shaped S-type asteroid measures approximately 1,100 feet in diameter and com...

Teens rarely receive addiction medication in U.S. treatment centers

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Despite a record-setting number of overdose deaths nationwide in 2022, a new study from Oregon Health & Science University finds that on...

Vaccine against deadly chytrid fungus primes frog microbiome for future exposure

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A new study led by researchers at Penn State found that a new vaccine against the deadly chytrid fungus in frogs can shift the composition o...

Summit study fathoms troubled waters of ocean turbulence

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Simulations performed on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit supercomputer generated one of the most detailed portraits to date of how tu...

Process turns harmful pollutants into harmless substances

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Conceptual image Illustration Credit: Evan Fields/UCR As scientists look for ways to clean up “forever chemicals” in the environment, an inc...

Sleep apnea link to cognitive decline

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Photo Credit:  SHVETS production Flinders University experts are working on better solutions for sleep apnea to ward off a range of health r...

Why women with multiple sclerosis get better when pregnant

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Women suffering from the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis temporarily get much better when pregnant. Photo Credit:  Neal E. Johnson Wom...