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A simple addition to injected COVID-19 vaccines could enhance their effectiveness and provide ‘border protection’ immunity in areas like the nose and mouth to supplement antibodies in the bloodstream, new research suggests.

Physics researchers at the University of North Florida’s Atomic LEGO Lab discovered a new electronic phenomenon they call ‘asymmetric ferroelectricity’. The research demonstrated this phenomenon for the first time in engineered two-dimensional crystals.

Researchers are developing novel asthma therapeutics using gene-silencing nanocapsules in a bid to help patients who aren’t benefiting from existing treatments.

A set of brain signals known to help memories form may also influence blood sugar levels, finds a new study in rats.

A group of researchers has published a comparative study of battery cost predictions from the past decade. In the study, assumptions from more than 50 scientific publications that analyze the costs of lithium-ion, solid-state, lithium-sulfur and lithiu…

Watching a mother mouse gather her pups into the family’s nest trains other female mice without pups to perform the same parenting task, a new study shows. Furthermore, these observations lead to the production of oxytocin in the brains of virgin femal…

When we’re talking to another person, we probably wouldn’t leave without saying goodbye; that would just be impolite. Apes seem to do something similar, researchers report in a study, in which they documented apes purposefully using signals to start an…

Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial heat, long-haul heavy transportation, and long-duration energy storage. Hydrogen and its derivatives could be that fuel, argu…

A new study focuses on the 2013 seismic sequence at the Castor platform of a former oil field, about 20 km offshore the coast of Valencia, Spain. During the initial phase of the development of a gas storage facility in the former oil field, thousands o…

In addition to providing vitamin D, helping flowers grow and creating the perfect excuse to head to the beach, sunlight also helps break down chemicals in streams, lakes and rivers. Researchers have developed a comprehensive reactive activity model tha…

Sunflowers face the rising sun because increased morning warmth attracts more bees and also helps the plants reproduce more efficiently, according to a new study.

A new study has revealed that over the last 20,000 to 50,000 years, birds have undergone a major extinction event, inflicted chiefly by humans, which caused the disappearance of about 10 to 20 percent of all avian species. According to the researchers,…

There are fewer than 500 Indian Ocean humpback dolphins (Sousa plumbea) remaining in South African waters. Science alone will not bring them back from the brink of extinction — we also need a multi-stakeholder Conservation Management Plan to boost the…

Eradicating COVID-19 across the globe is theoretically more feasible than for polio but much less so than it was for smallpox, according to an analysis by New Zealand researchers.