Readmission risk increases for elderly patients with geriatric-specific characteristics
Journal of the American College of Surgeons study results suggest the need to intervene early to prevent costly unplanned readmissions, ...
Month: February 2020
Virginia team earns spot in international robotics competition
UVA Engineering-Virginia Tech collaborative aims to create robots that work alongside humansCredit: UVA Engineering / Stacey Evans CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - ...
Study: Difference in breast milk concentrations impacts growth up to age 5
Researchers hope confirmation of association will lead to novel therapeutics for infants and adultsCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Breastfeeding ...
NASA finds wind shear doing in Tropical Storm Gabekile
Credit: Credit: NASA NRL Winds outside of Tropical Storm Gabekile are ripping the storm apart. NASA's Aqua satellite provided a ...
Tulane math professor leads effort to map spread of coronavirus
James 'Mac' Hyman's goal is to help the public health community better understand and predict the spread of the coronavirus.Credit: ...
NIH study supports new approach for treating cerebral malaria
Findings suggest drugs targeting immune cells may help treat deadly disease mainly affecting childrenCredit: Image courtesy of McGavern Lab/National Institute ...
Community LGBTQ supportiveness may reduce substance use among sexual minority adolescents
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 18, 2020--A new research study provides novel insights into community-level ...
APS tip sheet: Harnessing radar echoes for future neutrino detection
New high energy neutrino detection method could lead to a neutrino telescope able to observe neutrinos with energies beyond the ...
Scientists create supersensitive nanomaterials for DNA diagnostics and targeted drug delivery
Credit: Vladimir Cherkasov et al./ACS Nano In 1900, German physician Paul Ehrlich came up with the notion of a "magic ...
Novel Quantum effect found: Spin-rotation coupling
It was predicted 30 years ago, now the effect was measured for the first time by scientists at TU Wien ...
New journal to publish discoveries in biophysics
Credit: Cambridge University Press A new open access journal from Cambridge University Press - QRB Discovery - will provide an ...
APS tip sheet: Capturing election interference
New model analyzes characteristics of the 2016 election and surrounding social media activityCredit: Dewhurst et al. Physical Review E, 2020 ...
Sussex researchers combine lasers and terahertz waves in camera that sees ‘unseen’ detail
Terahertz camera uses laser light patterns to 'see inside' objects -- Terahertz imaging can reveal tiny hidden features of living ...
School students from Russia and Finland to be trained in the technologies of Industry 4.0
The project is supported by the of South-East Finland -- 'Russia' -- South East Finland 2014-2020'Credit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg ...
Exposure to cleaning products in first 3 months of life increases risk of childhood asthma
Credit: Simon Fraser University New research from the CHILD Cohort Study shows that frequent exposure to common household cleaning products ...
Scientists pinpoint brain coordinates for face blindness
Credit: Randi Starrfelt Face blindness (prosopagnosia) is the inability to recognise faces. Much as people with dyslexia find it difficult ...
Green approach accelerates process optimization and retrieval of ‘switchable’ solvents
Credit: Milad Abolhasani, NC State University Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new, green technology for both ...
Getting a grip: An innovative mechanical controller design for robot-assisted surgery
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology designed a new type of controller for the robotic ...
Visualizing diffusive dynamics beyond tracking limit with standard optical microscope
Evaluating the spatio-temporal distribution of diffusion coefficients for high-concentration Brownian particles without fluorescent labeling nor tracking them from microscopy movie ...
Measuring a dynamical topological order parameter in quantum walks
Credit: by Xiao-Ye Xu, Qin-Qin Wang, Markus Heyl, Jan Carl Budich, Wei-Wei Pan, Zhe Chen, Munsif Jan, Kai Sun, Jin-Shi ...
