New discovery advances optical microscopy
Enables researchers to directly visualize unlabeled objects that have deep sub-wavelength separationsCredit: Lynford Goddard, Grainger Engineering URBANA, Ill. - New ...
Month: June 2020
Eclipse data illuminate mysteries of Sun’s corona
Credit: Solar Wind Sherpas Researchers at the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying ...
NASA analyzes Cristobal, the big rainmaker
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite gathered infrared imagery and cloud top temperature data on Tropical Depression Cristobal, and it ...
Cord blood for stem cell transplant may outperform matched sibling donor
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center When a cancer patient needs a bone marrow transplant, there are four common donor ...
UTHSC researchers awarded $1.7 million for opioid addiction studies
Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (June 5, 2020) - A team of University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) researchers in ...
May 2020: Job numbers up for Americans with disabilities as COVID restrictions ease
Kessler Foundation and University of New Hampshire May 2020 nTIDE report -- featuring the New Jersey-based GI Go Fund's programs ...
DNA increases our understanding of contact between Stone Age cultures
Credit: Göran Burenhult What kind of interactions did the various Stone Age cultures have with one another? In a new ...
A newly discovered disease may lead to better treatment of cystic fibrosis
Better understand cystic fibrosis / Study in 'Journal of Medical Genetics'Credit: J. Park et al. 2020/ Journal of Medical Genetics ...
Creating hairy human skin: Not as easy as you think
New culture technique opens the door for new treatment for wound and burn treatments, testing drugs and cosmetics; the technique ...
With $16.5 million in NIH funding, MUSC opens two new digestive disease research centers
The recent openings of two centers have put the Medical University of South Carolina on the map as a leading ...
Air conditioner bumps the electric bill by 42%, increasing the risk of energy poverty
Credit: Gaia Squarci A new study published in Economic Modelling by researchers at Ca' Foscari University and CMCC shows that ...
University of Toronto team awarded CIHR grant to study impact of cannabis use on Indigenous oral health
Clinical research and Indigenous knowledge models will help team gather first evidence of effects of cannabis on Indigenous peoples of ...
New technique for engineering living materials and patterns
Credit: University of Warwick Engineered living materials (ELMs) is a new class of materials that exploit the properties of living ...
UTEP researchers help bring biofriendly materials to drug design for neuro disorders
Credit: Mahesh Narayan EL PASO, Texas - The contributions of researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) ...
Youth-inspired program increases bike helmet use by urban children
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine To reduce the number of traumatic brain injuries in children, a team of health care professionals ...
Something in the water: Pollutant may be more hazardous than previously thought
Credit: M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using NASA and public domain images Sometimes toxins, such as hazardous wastes and industrial ...
Physicists create quantum-inspired optical sensor
Credit: Nikita Kirsanov/MIPT Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, joined by a colleague from Argonne National Laboratory, ...
Volcanic glass spray shows promise in controlling mosquitoes
Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Roe, NC State University. An indoor residual spray made by combining a type of volcanic ...
Can deep water masses in the Mediterranean cross the Sicily Strait?
Underwater frontier between Mediterranean basinsCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA The Sicily Strait, an underwater relief connecting the Italian island with the ...
A tiny arctic shrub reveals secrets of plant growth on Svalbard
Counting tiny rings showed synchronous growth across an entire arctic archipelagoCredit: Lisa Sandal, NTNU The polar willow (Salix polaris) may ...
