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Shape-shifting worm blob model could inspire future robot swarms

October 26, 2021
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Lumbriculus variegatus blackworms can aggregate into ‘blobs’ capable of collective movement. Researchers observed blackworms to model the behaviour of individual worms, as well as the formation and movement of blobs....
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Zoology
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Fitness beats weight loss for obesity-related health conditions

September 22, 2021
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New research finds that increasing physical activity and improving fitness appear to be superior to weight loss for getting healthy and reducing mortality risk. Employing a weight-neutral approach to the...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Health, Health & Safety, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health
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Electron microscopy just became a thousand times more efficient

June 3, 2021
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Imaging a million samples a second to make electron microscopy a thousand times more efficient, the new 'Ruska' microscope will be able to see proteins fold and capture drug molecules...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Environment, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Particle Physics, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Physics, Physiology
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Staying ahead of the bacteria: A new weapon in the anti-bacterial arms race

June 1, 2021
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In the perpetual arms races between bacteria and human-made antibiotics, there is a new tool to give human medicine the edge, in part by revealing bacterial weaknesses and potentially by...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Parasitology, Pharmaceutical, Virology
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UKRI funding to bring the public into the heart of five research projects

May 27, 2021
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UK Research and Innovation is encouraging people from across the UK to actively contribute to five groundbreaking research projects. By pledging support for citizen science and citizen led research and...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Botany, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, Geophysics, Green Chemistry, Haematology, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Marine Biology, Materials, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Nanotech, Neuroscience, Oceanography, Physics, Soil Science, Tectonics, Virology, Volcanology, Zoology
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Designing healthy diets with mathematical modelling and computer analysis

April 22, 2021
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When it comes to diets, no one size fits all. Now, researchers have demonstrated a the ability to apply accurate mathematical modelling and computer analysis to predict how an individual's...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Food & Bev, Food & Beverage, Food and Drink, Food Science, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Physiology
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Making music with spiders webs and talking arachnid: discover more at ACS Spring 2021

April 12, 2021
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Imagine being able to talk to spiders in their own language! Scientists report that they have translated the structure of a web into music, which could help them communicate to...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Botany, Environment, Zoology
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Tracking mosquito flight patterns in 3D using digital holography and mathematics

March 12, 2021
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Researchers have been asked to use large field-of-view digital holography to accurately apply 3D tracking to mosquito flight. By capturing the diffraction pattern of mosquitoes in a telecentric volume, the...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Botany, Environment, Environmental, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Zoology
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Mapping neural dynamics: Making sense of mass neuron-generated data

February 19, 2021
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How do animals process information and adapt to environmental change? New research applies AI driven information geometry to capture network correlations, simplify neural mapping and enable advanced calculation methods for...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Neuroscience
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Unveiling the twist in cell-to-cell signal transport using cryogenic electron microscopy

February 18, 2021
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It seems chemical signals move through cells in a similarly controlled fashion to shoppers moving through a shopping centre; by using elevators. Using a form of high-resolution microscopy called cryogenic...
Life Sciences
Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology
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