Scientists accidentally discover a new water mold threatening Christmas trees
Credit: De-Wei Li, Neil P. Schultes, James A. LaMondia, and Richard S. Cowles Grown as Christmas trees, Fraser firs are ...
Month: December 2019
Researchers identify ‘Achilles’ heel’ of drug-resistant superbug
Credit: UTHealth A deadly superbug that infects an estimated 54,500 Americans a year has a secret weapon, a protein, that ...
Rice, Amazon report breakthrough in ‘distributed deep learning’
MACH slashes time and resources needed to train computers for product searchesCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON -- (Dec. ...
Using human bone remains to study predictable, postmortem microbes
$1.2 million from National Institutes of Justice to fund the workCredit: Colorado State University It's one of the most salient ...
Reorganizing a computer chip: Transistors can now both process and store information
Researchers solve decades-old challenge of building a functional transistor integrated with ferroelectric RAMCredit: Purdue University photo/Vincent Walter WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ...
Lighting up cardiovascular problems using nanoparticles
New nanotechnology will allow detection of blocked arteries more effectively than ever beforeCredit: USC Viterbi School of Engineering Heart disease ...
New software tool uses AI to help doctors identify cancer cells
Credit: UTSW DALLAS - Dec. 9, 2019 - UT Southwestern researchers have developed a software tool that uses artificial intelligence ...
Review Commons, a pre-journal portable review platform
Credit: EMBO / Pauline Marchetti Washington DC, 9 December 2019 - Today ASAPbio and EMBO Press launch Review Commons, a ...
Researchers find some forests crucial for climate change mitigation, biodiversity
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - A study by Oregon State University researchers has identified forests in the western ...
Megadroughts fueled Peruvian cloud forest activity
Sediment samples show recovery from some ecosystem damage possibleCredit: Florida Tech MELBOURNE, FLA. -- New research led by scientists from ...
New bone healing mechanism has potential therapeutic applications
Credit: Cell Stem Cell/the Park lab Led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, a study published in the journal ...
New tool to assess digital addiction in children
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 9, 2019--A new study developed and validated a tool for ...
Tackling air pollution: researchers present emissions inventory for Nepal
Credit: © Authors 2019. Data on emission amounts and sources have an important role to play in shaping policy on ...
The Antarctic: study from Kiel provides data about the structure of the icy continent
European Space Agency publishes a 3D model of the AntarcticCredit: © Planetary Visions (credit: ESA/Planetary Visions) The Antarctic is one ...
Microplastic to be mapped in the North Atlantic Ocean
Credit: SDU Every day, thousands of tons of microplastic are washed from the EU coastline into the North Atlantic Ocean. ...
Regional trends in overdose deaths reveal multiple opioid epidemics, according to new study
Credit: David Peters AMES, Iowa - The United States is suffering from several different simultaneous opioid epidemics, rather than just ...
What can we learn from bonobos and chimpanzees?
A personal account of bonobo and chimpanzee behaviour by a renowned Japanese primatologist explains what and why we should learn ...
New function for plant enzyme could lead to green chemistry
Discovery may inspire development of better industrial catalystsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven ...
Storing data in everyday objects
Credit: ETH Zurich / Julian Koch Living beings contain their own assembly and operating instructions in the form of DNA. ...
City research draws on Formula 1 technology for the construction of skyscrapers
Civil engineering academic is developing new vibration-control devices based on Formula 1 technology for skyscrapersCredit: City, University of London City, ...
