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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study conducted by professors at City, University of London found that the Research Excellence Framework (REF), which measures the research performance of UK universities, has resulted in a significant increase in the amount of high-quality research publications, but not in the output of active academics. The study suggests that the …
Researchers from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea have developed graphene-based conductive hydrogels as bioelectrode materials for overcoming the challenges associated with traditional, metal-based bioelectrodes. These conductive hydrogels are injectable, skin-compatible, easy to use, and demonstrate excellent signal transmission. Moreover, their controllable degradability can allow the development of high performing, convenient bioelectrodes with …
The late physicist Stephen Hawking enlisted Thomas Hertog to help develop “a new quantum theory of the Big Bang” in 1998. Over the course of their 20-year collaboration, they sought to understand how the conditions for life could have arisen from the Big Bang. Their work is detailed in the recently published book, “On the …
This illustration shows a Jupiter-mass exoplanet getting perilously close to its star. Eventually, the star will engulf the planet, something that happens in many stars’ lives as they leave the main sequence. Credit: C. Carreau / ESA In space, cataclysmic events happen to stars all the time. Some explode as supernovae, some get torn apart …
Ecovative showcased the versatility of mycelium at the 2015 SynBioBeta Conference by designing the … [+] entire stage with mycelium materials. Ecovative will be back to design the stage at this year’s SynBioBeta Conference on May 23-25, 2023 at the Oakland Marriott, CA. Eben Bayer on Twitter In 1907, electric power was spreading in the …
30cm long Paradoxides from St Davids in Wales. Held in the collections of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge. Credit: Sedgwick Museum Around 500 million years ago life in the oceans rapidly diversified. In the blink of an eye—at least in geological terms—life transformed from simple, soft-bodied creatures to complex multicellular organisms with shells …
Here’s why you shouldn’t write off rebound relationships as maladaptive coping mechanisms. getty There are many coping mechanisms that people use to heal or distract themselves from the pain of a breakup. None of them, however, is as popular as the rebound relationship. Often frowned upon as a technique to suppress what one is truly …
‘The climate crisis will be changed in culture and business and technology, not politics’: Drawdown Project exectivey director Jonathan Foley. With climate-enhanced droughts, heatwaves and fires ravaging three continents and the threat of a new surge in global warming, the world urgently needs to ramp-up solutions for slashing carbon pollution. But which solutions are most …
Illustration of the first multicellular animals that existed during the Ediacaran period (around 635 … [+] to 542 million years ago). getty In 1947, geologist Reginald C. Sprigg announced the discovery of large fossils from the Ediacara Hills in the Australian Outback. Dating of the rock formations revealed that the Ediacaran fauna was more than …
Communications Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04840-z” width=”800″ height=”530″/> Overview of the HPA dataset and the proposed solution. a The HPA dataset is the largest collection of images depicting specific protein localisations at a subcellular level, acquired using immunofluorescence staining followed by confocal microscopy imaging. The training dataset consists of 104307 images and corresponding image-level labels. To …