. Scientific Frontline
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Mystery solved: New study reveals how DNA repair genes play a major role in Huntington's disease

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Dr. Xiangdong William Yang Photo Credit: Courtesy of UCLA/Health A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associate...

Research yields eco-friendly way to separate, recycle refrigerants tied to climate crisis

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Lead author Abby Harders, who earned her doctorate in chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Kansas, now serves as head of ...

Innovative target design leads to surprising discovery in laser-plasma acceleration

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Researchers studying laser-driven proton acceleration introduced an innovative, self-replenishing water sheet target to address the ineffici...

Celebrating 15 Years of Women and Girls in Science at KAUST

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Photo Credit: Courtesy of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology This year marks the 10th anniversary of the United Nation’s Int...

Opening for a new type of drug for Alzheimer’s Disease

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Kaj Blennow and Tohidul Islam. Photo Credit: Johan Wingborg A complementary drug to combat Alzheimer’s disease could target a specific part ...

How Botox enters our cells

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Volodymyr M. Korkhov (left) and Richard Kammerer of the Center for Life Sciences at PSI have made important advances towards understanding h...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Collection of tiny antennas can amplify and control light polarized in any direction

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New polarization-independent, highly resonant metasurfaces can precisely amplify and control light without requiring incoming light (top lef...

Influenza A viruses adapt shape in response to environmental pressures

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Colorized transmission electron micrograph of influenza A virus particles, colorized red and gold, isolated from a patient sample and then p...

Study reveals reasons for misdiagnosis of frontotemporal dementia

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Researchers have discovered patterns in the misdiagnosis of frontotemporal dementia Photo Credit:  Anna Shvets University of Queensland rese...

How Does the Brain Differentiate New Stimuli from Old Ones?

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The illustration represents how sounds are encoded in the cerebral cortex, with neurons (at right) using "echoing" activity to tra...

Purdue biochemists discover self-repair function in key photosynthetic protein complex

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Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Steve McKenzie look at a plant thylakoid in a lab at the biochemistry building at Purdue University. Photo Credit: ...

Rice scientists create tiny, water-based reactors for green chemistry

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Researchers at Rice, including Ying Chen and Angel Martí, have developed a new method for performing chemical reactions using water instead ...

Anomaly in the Deep Sea: Extraordinary Accumulation of Rare Atoms Could Improve Geological Dating Methods

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Schematic depiction of production and incorporation of cosmogenic 10Be into ferromanganese crusts. A pronounced anomaly in 10Be concentratio...

Engineers Design New Autonomous System to Monitor Arctic Ice Melt

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Photo Credit:  Bernd Hildebrandt The rapid melting and thinning of the Arctic ice have sparked serious concerns in the scientific community....

UP-led astronomy research team explores formation of giant radio galaxies

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An artistic representation of a what a giant cosmic jet the size of the distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda could look like Illustr...