Bacteria use collisions to find their way in tight spaces
EPFL scientists have found that some microbes sense contact and change direction to explore their environment better.
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Swedish scientists aim to grow strong materials from plant cells
A project led by Linköping University seeks to create strong, flexible materials using plant cells as building blocks.
Swiss Alpine bacteria show unexpected ability against viruses
Micro-organisms collected from alpine lakes reduced the infectivity of viruses in laboratory tests.
Swedish AI scientist already creates and tests biological hypotheses
A system developed at Chalmers plans experiments, analyses results and proposes new tests in an automated loop.
Swiss nanopore detects seven algal toxins in water
A tiny EPFL sensor distinguishes several microcystins and reaches concentrations far below the limit recommended by the WHO.
CUORE experiment ends at Gran Sasso after profiling neutrinos
The detector housed in INFN's underground laboratories has completed the scientific programme it began in 2017, leaving data and technologies for future experiments.
Chinese nuclear clock is six times more stable than Vienna rival
The world's first two nuclear clocks, based on thorium-229, have been presented in the journal Nature by teams in Beijing and Vienna.
St Petersburg university tests seed coating that boosts wheat yields
Russian chemists have developed a chitosan and glyoxal treatment that, in the laboratory, raised wheat productivity more than 1.5-fold and lowered the risk of disease.
UCLouvain finds glowing shark uses its belly light to hunt unseen
UCLouvain researchers have shown that the kitefin shark, the largest known luminous vertebrate, erases its own silhouette to approach prey swimming below it.
Four-winged dinosaur fossil found in China challenges single origin of flight
Norellraptor barsboldi, about 100 million years old, suggests flight arose independently in several dinosaur lineages.
Vesuvius eruption that destroyed Pompeii helps refine dating of Earth’s history
A study involving the University of Padua used the eruption of AD 79 to make a geological dating method about twice as precise.
Japan’s Kenso Soai shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry for unravelling the mystery of mirror-image molecules
The 76-year-old Japanese chemist shares the prize with Frenchman Henri Kagan for work on molecules that exist in two mirror-image versions, essential for manufacturing many medicines.
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