Uncategorized Pollen Levels Might Trigger Flares of Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain (Medicine) 5 Jan 2021 As anyone living with hay fever can attest, days with high pollen counts can bring attacks of sneezing, nasal congestion and other allergy symptoms. Now, a new study suggests rising…
Medicine Heat Treatment May Make Chemotherapy More Effective (Medicine) 5 Jan 2021 Heating up cancer cells while targeting them with chemotherapy is a highly effective way of killing them, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The study, published in…
Paleontology Leaf Fossils Show Severe End-Cretaceous Plant extinction in southern Argentina (Paleontology) 5 Jan 2021 The asteroid impact 66 million years ago that ushered in a mass extinction and ended the dinosaurs also killed off many of the plants that they relied on for food.…
Planetary Science Remote Sensing Data Sheds Light on When And How Asteroid Ryugu Lost its Water (Planetary Science) 5 Jan 2021 Last month, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission brought home a cache of rocks collected from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. While analysis of those returned samples is just getting underway, researchers are…
Biology New Bacterial Culture Methods Could Result in the Discovery of New Species (Biology) 5 Jan 2021 The culture-dependent study allowed to isolate a surprisingly large number of diverse and previously unreported bacterial strains from the Tabernas Desert. Microorganisms are the most abundant and diverse form of…
Engineering On the Road to Invisible Solar Panels: How Tomorrow’s Windows Will Generate Electricity (Engineering) 5 Jan 2021 A new study led by scientists from Incheon National University in Korea shows how to make a fully transparent solar cell. In a new study in Journal of Power Sources, an…
Biology Magnets Dim Natural Glow of Human Cells, May Shed Light on How Animals Migrate (Biology) 5 Jan 2021 First direct observation of magnetic field affecting autofluorescence of flavins in living cells. Researchers in Japan have made the first observations of biological magnetoreception - live, unaltered cells responding to…
