NASA examines tropical storm Fung-Wong’s rainfall
Credit: Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL NASA analyzed Tropical Storm Fung-Wong's rainfall and found two small areas of moderate to heavy rainfall, despite ...
Month: November 2019
$1M grant goes to asthma prevention research
UMass Lowell prof leads effort to aid low-income seniorsCredit: Photo credit: Adrien Bisson for UMass Lowell LOWELL, Mass. - A ...
NJIT’s Chrystoff Camacho wins an Edison patent award for an aerial reforestation device
Credit: Photo provided by The Research & Development Council of New Jersey. Chrystoff Camacho, an inventor and budding entrepreneur who ...
Nov. journal highlights: First MCI prevalence estimates in US Latino populations
Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association November 2019 Journal DigestCredit: Alzheimer's Association CHICAGO, November 22, 2019 - ...
Small, fast, and highly energy-efficient memory device inspired by lithium-ion batteries
Credit: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Virtually all digital devices that perform any sort of processing of information require not ...
How does the prion protein clump? DNA-modulated liquid droplets may explain
Brazilian scientists have found that prion proteins form liquid droplets that can turn into a solid and toxic state, and ...
NASA’s infrared analysis of Tropical Storm Sebastien sees wind shear
Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm Sebastian continued to move in a northeasterly direction through the North Atlantic Ocean as NASA's Aqua ...
Combination of immunotherapy and VEGF inhibitor improves survival in HCC
ESMO Asia Congress 2019Credit: © European Society for Medical Oncology Singapore, 23 November 2019 - Combination therapy with the PD-L1 ...
Wendy’s named 2019-2020 HRM Impact Award Winner
SHRM, SIOP, and their foundations to award organizations that are improving Human Resource management practicesCredit: The Society for Industrial and ...
Sophia Maurasse, M.D., wins prestigious National Compassionate Caregiver of the Year Award
Schwartz Center recognizes Maurasse for her extraordinary work with complicated, challenging, difficult-to-reach patientsCredit: McLean Hospital McLean Hospital's Sophia L. Maurasse, ...
How the brain decides to punish or not
Meta analysis identifies areas responsible for punishment decisionsCredit: Oksana Zinchenko, 'Brain Responses to Social Punishment: a Meta-Analysis.' Sci Rep 9, ...
Department of Defense awards grant to Stephenson researcher for lung cancer study
Credit: OU Medicine OKLAHOMA CITY - Cancer researchers operate from a fundamental premise: Tumor cells are very smart. Because of ...
Is centenarian democratization our near future?
Jean-Pierre Fillard's Longevity in the 2.0 World: Would Centenarians Become a Commonplace?Credit: World Scientific Have you ever wondered how does ...
A model will help to understand the solar dynamics
Credit: Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) An international group of scientists, in cooperation with a research scientist from Skoltech, has developed ...
Interaction with fungus containing N2-fixing endobacteria improves rice nitrogen nutrition
Nitrogen nutrition improved in rice by interaction with rhodotorula mucilaginosa and its N2-fixing endobacteriaCredit: Karnelia Paul, Mayurakshi Nag, and Anindita ...
New electrodes could increase efficiency of electric vehicles and aircraft
Credit: Texas A&M Engineering The rise in popularity of electric vehicles and aircraft presents the possibility of moving away from ...
DNA repeats — the genome’s dark matter
First direct analysis of pathogenic sequence repeats in the human genomeCredit: MPI f. Molecular Genetics/ Pay Gießelmann Expansions of DNA ...
Dangerous bacteria communicate to avoid antibiotics
Credit: University of Copenhagen A bacterial infection is not just an unpleasant experience - it can also be a major ...
Research shows old newspapers can be used to grow carbon nanotubes
Newspapers provide a green, economical way to produce carbon nanotubesCredit: Rice University A research collaboration between Rice University and the ...
Caught in afterglow: 1st detection of Inverse Compton emission from dying gamma-ray burst
Researchers from the Centre for Astro-Particle Physics (CAPP) within the Department of Physics at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) collaborate ...
