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Phys.org / Bright pink insect stands out to blend in, scientists say
A tropical insect has been found to change color from vivid hot pink to green within a fortnight, which scientists believe may mimic the young leaves of rainforest plants. The findings, published this week in the journal ...
Medical Xpress / How the brain filters out 'expected' sounds: Orbitofrontal cortex study offers new insight
Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or potentially threatening. Via a process known as habituation, they gradually learn to ignore non-threatening ...
Phys.org / Researchers realize room-temperature two-dimensional multiferroic metal
Multiferroic metals are materials that exhibit both electric polarization and magnetic order in the same crystal—a state known as multiferroicity. Because these properties coexist, they can interact through magnetoelectric ...
Phys.org / Can plants count? Study suggests they can track the number of events they experience
It's long been assumed that for an organism to learn, remember or draw conclusions, it needs a brain. But mounting evidence, including a recent Cognitive Science study, challenges that assumption, suggesting that neurons ...
Phys.org / From guesswork to guidance: How machine learning speeds dopant design for water-splitting photocatalysts
MLIP calculations successfully identify suitable dopants for a novel photocatalytic material, report researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo. As demonstrated in their study, published in the Journal of the American ...
Phys.org / How flexible protein regions retain their function via motifs and chemical context
A new LMU study shows how proteins function reliably even without a stable 3D structure—and the crucial importance not only of short sequence motifs, but also of chemical characteristics.
Phys.org / Real-time protein quality control keeps cells healthy
Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a biochemical technique that captures fleeting "handshakes" between newly made proteins and the cellular helpers. These short interactions are important ...
Phys.org / Bacterial strain breaks decades-old bottleneck in chemotherapy drug manufacturing
An international team of researchers has achieved a breakthrough in the production of doxorubicin, a vital chemotherapy agent. The study identifies and resolves molecular "bottlenecks" that have limited the natural production ...
Phys.org / Ultrasound-based approach to delivering potent drugs into cancer cells shows promise in benchtop experiments
Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a technique that uses microbubbles and ultrasound to help relatively large cancer drugs enter tumor cells and cause them to self-destruct. Dubbed "Sonoporation-assisted Precise ...
Medical Xpress / How the brain can selectively focus attention on one voice among others in a noisy environment
MIT neuroscientists have figured out how the brain is able to focus on a single voice among a cacophony of many voices, shedding light on a longstanding neuroscientific phenomenon known as the "cocktail party problem."
Phys.org / The fish were biting in ancient Alabama: Tooth found embedded in Cretaceous apex predator's neck
The oceans of the Cretaceous of North America teemed with life. Gigantic fish and enormous marine reptiles hunted the Western Interior Sea. A unique new fossil demonstrates rare evidence of direct conflict between these apex ...
Phys.org / Comprehensive digital materials ecosystem can perform 'sanity check' to guide design
There is a near-infinite number of material candidates out there—and simply not enough time to hunker down in the lab and test them all. Thankfully, researchers have a variety of tools (such as AI) at their disposal to ...
