Scientists Discover “Fool’s Gold” May Be Valuable After All
For the first time, researchers electrically transform material from non-magnetic to magnetic. In a breakthrough new study, scientists and engineers at the University of Minnesota…
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Uncovering Why the COVID-19 Virus Is So Infectious and Efficiently Evades Immune Responses
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is highly infectious. Curiously, in many patients, it triggers poor immune responses, which prolongs illness. This helps the virus…
Scientists Built an Underwater Theater and Attached 3D Glasses to Cuttlefish – Here’s What They Learned
3D movies reveal how cuttlefish determine distance when striking at prey. While cuttlefish wearing glasses is an unexpected sight, a University of Minnesota-led research team…
Decoding the Brain to Help Patients With Mental Illness
Study demonstrates that network-level brain activity can detect specific types of mental effort. Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the United States experience mental illness…
A New Study Links Infant Antibiotic Use to Adult Diseases
New research from the University of Minnesota reveals a three-way link among antibiotic use in infants, changes in the gut bacteria, and disease later in…
Supercomputer Simulations Reveal an Unusual Death for Ancient Supermassive Stars
New supercomputer simulations show that non-rotating supermassive primordial stars can die as highly energetic thermonuclear supernovae powered by explosive helium burning, releasing about 10,000 times…
Researchers Publish Galaxy Zoo 2 Catalog, Data on More than 300,000 Nearby Galaxies
With data on more than 300,000 nearby galaxies, the Galaxy Zoo 2 catalog is 10 times larger than any previous catalog of its kind. Minneapolis…
Scientists Guide Flying Robot with Their Thoughts
Using noninvasive 3-D brain-computer interfaces, scientists at the University of Minnesota have developed technology that allows them to use their thoughts to steer a flying…
First Artificial Enzyme Created by in Vitro Directed Evolution
Using a noncatalytic protein scaffold, a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota have generated the first artificial enzyme created by in vitro directed…
Researchers Detect All Phases of Thermonuclear Burning in a Neutron Star
A team of researchers has detected all phases of thermonuclear burning in a neutron star located close to the center of the galaxy in the…
Evolutionary Biologists Make Multicellular Life Evolve in the Lab
The evolutionary transition between single-celled organisms and multicellular life as we know it took several billion years to occur in nature, but under artificial pressure,…