Subsiding air parcels are among the causes of hot spells
KIT climatologists consider subsiding air masses from high altitude to be responsible for extreme hot spells rather than hot air ...
Month: December 2019
All-optical diffractive neural networks process broadband light
Credit: Ozcan Research Group, UCLA Diffractive deep neural network is an optical machine learning framework that blends deep learning with ...
Inside ITER — the giant fusion reactor
A new book provides a behind-the-scenes view into ITER -- the world's biggest fusion reactor, and discusses the challenges and ...
SMU-TCS iCity Lab’s SHINESeniors project wins 2019 Supernova award
Credit: Singapore Management University SINGAPORE, November 26, 2019: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT ...
Bio-inspired hydrogel can rapidly switch to rigid plastic
Credit: Nonoyama T. et al., Advanced Materials, November 18, 2019 A new material that stiffens 1,800-fold when exposed to heat ...
New ‘hyper glue’ formula developed by UBCO and UVic researchers
Cross-linking technology tightly binds where commercial glues cannotCredit: UBC Okanagan With many of the products we use every day held ...
Finnish children’s motor skills at the top in Europe
Data gathered in Finland, Belgium and Portugal reveal that Finnish children are ahead of their European peers in motor skills ...
Water was a winner in capturing CO2
Wetting a polymer membrane improved its ability to capture CO2Credit: Photo: Kenneth P. Mineart, NCSU Climate worries go hand in ...
APS names Dr. John V. Williams as recipient of Norman J. Siegel Outstanding Science Award
Credit: Dr. John V. Williams The American Pediatric Society (APS) is pleased to announce John V. Williams, MD, as the ...
NOTCH1 signaling in oral squamous cell carcinoma via a TEL2/SERPINE1 axis
The cover for issue 63 of Oncotarget features Figure 6, "Inverse relationship between ETV7 and SERPINE1 in OSCC," by Salameti, ...
Targeted therapy better for repeat kidney cancer patients than FDA-approved counterpart
City of Hope co-led a phase 3 clinical trial that may soon change how renal cell carcinoma patients are treated ...
Chronic opioid treatment may raise risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, study finds
Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA While opioids are often prescribed to treat people with trauma-related pain, a new UCLA-led study suggests doctors ...
Star-quake vibrations lead to new estimate for Milky Way age
Data gathered by NASA's now defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mysteryCredit: NASA/JPL Caltech/R.Hurt/SSC Star-quakes recorded by ...
Freeze frame: Scientists capture atomic-scale snapshots of artificial proteins
Berkeley Lab scientists adapt microscopy technique to build and image peptoid nanosheets with unprecedented atomic precisionCredit: Berkeley Lab Protein-like molecules ...
SMU dons achieve prestigious ACM recognition
Credit: Singapore Management University SINGAPORE, 25 November 2019 (Monday) - Associate Professor Steven Hoi, currently the Managing Director of Salesforce ...
Properties of graphene change due to water and oxygen
Credit: Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) We often find that food becomes rotten when we leave it outside ...
A new study reveals the function of corpora amylacea to remove brain waste substances
Solving enigma in neuroscience researchCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA An article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) ...
TAMEST names top rising STEM scientists of Texas in 2020 O’Donnell Award announcement
Changing the future of Alzheimer's Disease. Utilizing crystals to produce drugs for kidney stones and malaria. Understanding previously unobserved functions ...
Respiration key to increase oxygen in the brain
Credit: Handbook of Physiology, 1892 William Morrant Baker Contrary to accepted knowledge, blood can bring more oxygen to mice brains ...
Mapping the energy transport mechanism of chalcogenide perovskite for solar energy use
Engineers have characterized the thermal energy conversion mechanism in the lattice of an advanced nanomaterial called chalcogenide perovskite and demonstrated ...
