Survey: In Vermont, pandemic’s impact falling disproportionately on lower income groups
Credit: Glenn Russell High percentages of Vermonters agree with the social distancing measures put in place by the state in ...
Month: June 2020
New UNLV Center advances global fight against Alzheimer’s
The Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience will advance research and the science of treatment for Alzheimer's and other neurological disordersCredit: ...
COVID-19 vaccine to be tested in UIC clinical trial
UIC is expected to be the only site in Chicago to launch phase 3 clinical trialCredit: UIC/Jenny Fontaine The University ...
Excitons form superfluid in certain 2D combos
Rice University researchers find 'paradox' in ground-state bilayersCredit: Yakobson Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 15, 2020) - Mixing and ...
Tuberculosis spread from animals to humans may be greater than previously thought
Credit: Vivek Kapur, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The number of human tuberculosis (TB) cases that are due to ...
Building a circular chemical economy
Pitt's James McKone selected as a 2020 Beckman Young Investigator for a project that recycles carbon dioxide back into useful ...
Electronic health information exchange improves public health disease reporting
Study shows prepopulating forms increases reporting rates for notifiable conditionsCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Disease tracking is an important area ...
CU Cancer Center researcher working on early cancer detection named Pew-Stewart Scholar
Dr. Ramachandran is looking to improve methods for early cancer detection using cell-free DNA.Credit: CU Cancer Center University of Colorado ...
Pitt engineer maintains a laser focus to grow nanocarbons on flexible devices
Mostafa Bedewy will use a $240K NSF award to study a new scalable laser patterning process for directly growing tailored ...
Brothers in arms: The brain and its blood vessels
Study shows how blood vessels sense the metabolic state of neuronal cellsCredit: MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, B. Sheikh The ...
Improved gut microbiota with cholesterol-lowering medication
Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg There is a clear link between improved gut microbiota and one of our most common ...
Why pulsars shine bright: A half-century-old mystery solved
Intense radio emissions produced by the fast-spinning stars are caused by newborn particles interacting with powerful electromagnetic fields, new plasma ...
Melting a crystal topologically
Credit: Huang Ping (Xi'an Jiaotong University) The introduction of topology, a branch of mathematics focusing on the properties of "knots", ...
International summer school-conference ‘Advanced Problems In Mechanics’
Conference 'Advanced Problems in Mechanics' (APM-online) will be held onlineCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University From June 21 to ...
Unpacking the two layers of bacterial gene regulation during plant infection
Credit: Tatsuya Nobori By analysing the different layers of bacterial gene expression during pathogen infection of a plant host, Kenichi ...
Research reveals how material defects influence melting process
Credit: Ling Lab/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- In 1972, physicists J. Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless published a groundbreaking theory ...
Superlens squeezes light into nanospace
Plasmon nanojet: Physicists implement efficient mechanism for subwavelength focusing of plasmonsCredit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Russian and Danish researchers have ...
Surprising growth rates discovered in world’s deepest photosynthetic corals
Credit: Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory, University of Hawaii. New research published in the journal Coral Reefs revealed unexpectedly high growth ...
The first intuitive programming language for quantum computers
Credit: ETH Zurich Programming quantum computers is becoming easier: computer scientists at ETH Zurich have designed the first programming language ...
A phase battery for quantum technologies
The first quantum phase battery has been realized. It consist of an indium arsenide (InAs) nanowire in contact with aluminum ...
