New $25-million center to advance quantum science and engineering
Credit: CU Boulder The National Science Foundation announced this week that CU Boulder will receive a $25 million award to ...
Month: July 2020
Scientists publish findings from 1st statewide COVID-19 random sample study in US
Credit: Photos by Liz Kaye, Indiana University INDIANAPOLIS -- The results of the first statewide random sample study in the ...
Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus
Is safer to work with, can aid efforts to find drugs, vaccinesCredit: Matt Miller Airborne and potentially deadly, the virus ...
Leukemia drug shows the potential to treat aggressive pediatric brain câncer
When tested in vitro, arsenic trioxide killed tumor cells and prevented the formation of new colonies. This leukemia drug also ...
Spider monkey groups as collective computers
Credit: Sandra E. Smith Aguilar The wild spider monkeys living in a protected area near Punta Laguna, Mexico, collectively figure ...
Russian scientists identified energy storage mechanism of sodium-ion battery anode
Credit: Zoia V.Bobyleva et al./Electrochimica Acta Scientists from Skoltech and Moscow State University (MSU) identified the type of electrochemical reaction ...
Postdoc pushes backward physics to fore
Postdoctoral Prize winner Wenliang "Bill" Li won the 2020 JSA Postdoctoral Prize to run experiments that will examine proton structure ...
No single sign or symptom is sufficient to rule in or rule out community acquired pneumonia
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM DES PLAINES, IL -- While the history and ...
Freeze-framing the shape-shifting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
Cryogenic electron microscopy captures the spike in its 'before' and 'after' shapesCredit: Image created with Molecular Maya by Jonathan Khao, ...
Concordian co-leads effort to see future of AI from an Indigenous perspective
A collaborative position paper challenges long-held assumptions about Western approaches to technologyCredit: Concordia University In the late winter and spring ...
Researchers develop a portable blood ammonia detector
Credit: Thomas Veltman Seated around the dinner table, faculty affiliated with Stanford ChEM-H - one of Stanford University's interdisciplinary institutes ...
Silver-plated gold nanostars detect early cancer biomarkers
New optical sensing platform can detect genomic cancer biomarkers directly in patient tissuesCredit: Tuan Vo-Dinh, Duke University Biomedical engineers at ...
Tropical Storm Douglas organizing in NASA infrared imagery
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Depression 8E developed on July 20 and quickly organized into a tropical storm. Infrared NASA satellite ...
NASA finds wind shear and cooler waters winding down Tropical Depression 7E
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Eastern ...
Huntsman Cancer Institute renewal of designation from the National Cancer Institute
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has renewed the designation of Huntsman Cancer ...
Influenza virus-induced oxidized DNA activates inflammasomes
Credit: ©ICHINOHE Takeshi Both influenza virus M2, a proton-selective ion channel essential for efficient viral replication, and PB1-F2 protein, which ...
Markerless motion capture technology could help skeleton athletes’ training
Credit: University of Bath Researchers at the University of Bath have been working with GB skeleton athletes to develop a ...
Study calls for review of rice and sugar in food subsidy programme
Credit: Lancaster University The nutritional benefit of rice and sugar distributed by a national food subsidy programme in India may ...
Site-directed mutagenesis in wheat via haploid induction by maize
Credit: IPK A new study (Budhagatapalli et al., 2020), which has recently been published in the Plant Biotechnology Journal, demonstrates ...
Working toward freeze-drying synthetic platelets
Newest synthetic platelet research at Case Western Reserve University funded by $3.8 million U.S. Dept. of Defense grant, seeks to ...
