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According to a new study led by the TecnATox research group from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and the Pere Virgili Institute for Health Research (IISPV), air pollution is decisive to the severity and mortality triggered by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

According to a recent study published in eLife, ruby-throated hummingbirds use energy-saving tactics to survive overnight fasts as well as build fat stores required to travel on long migrations.

The effects of microplastics are being explored by many studies around the world with special attention on their environment and health impacts.

The working system of the human brain is way different from a computer as the brain works with biological cells and electrical impulses whereas a computer uses silicon-based transistors.

A new mechanism has been discovered by Canadian and American scientists by which membrane vesicles are made.

Researchers have developed a new algorithm to unravel material compounds that were not known earlier.

For studying materials at the nano-level, scientists repeatedly need to build a complex structure to keep the materials – a laborious and difficult process. However, imagine if there was a method where the structure could just build itself?

Grouping of pathogen-recognizing proteins on immune T cells may be key to identifying if someone has had an infection in the past, suggests a study published today in eLife.

For the first-ever time, scientists at the University of Bayreuth and their collaborators from China and the United States have synthesized a carbon material that does not feature the exactly ordered structures of a crystal but is not amorphous either.

Scientists at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Mexico, have discovered lithium in the oldest and coldest brown dwarf where the existence of this prized element has been proven so far.