Month: July 2020

Credit: Image by Simon Thiele and Jiawen Li. A team of researchers led by the University of Adelaide and University ...

Sanford Burnham Prebys receives CIRM award for COVID-19 research

Researchers will use 'mini lungs in a dish' to test promising drug candidatesCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Sanford ...

Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world

Credit: Photo by Deng Palomares, Sea Around Us. Fish market favourites such as orange roughy, common octopus and pink conch ...

Making comprehensive water resources modeling more accessible

Credit: IIASA The growing global population and continued economic development will likely require a significant increase in water demand, especially ...

OSU researchers part of international effort to save critically endangered seabird

Credit: Dan Roby, OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - The global population of the critically endangered Chinese crested tern has more than ...

Everything you ever wanted to know about leech sex but were afraid to ask

Credit: Karen Kidd Today, we pull the veil back on the secret sex lives of leeches and how researchers at ...

Purdue innovators receive $1.3 million from DoD for traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s

Credit: Ed Lausch, Lausch Photography WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Innovators at Purdue University have received new support as they work ...

Label-free imaging helps predict reproductive outcomes

Credit: Photo courtesy the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and ...

Florida harmful algal blooms produce multiple toxins detrimental to human health

Cyanobacterial blooms released downstream from Lake Okeechobee coincided with red tides placing Florida's west coast in a toxic viceCredit: Paul ...

Engineering Academy of Japan elects Dan Frangopol as foreign associate

Lehigh University structural engineering professor is regarded as a worldwide authority on structural reliability, optimization, and life-cycle engineering Credit: Courtesy of ...

New model connects respiratory droplet physics with spread of Covid-19

Credit: Abhishek Saha, UC San Diego Respiratory droplets from a cough or sneeze travel farther and last longer in humid, ...

NASA analyzes new eastern Pacific Ocean Tropical Depression 7E

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The seventh tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific Ocean has formed. NASA's Terra satellite used infrared light ...

Better wastewater treatment? It’s a wrap

Rice's trap-and-zap strategy for antibiotic resistant bugs becomes wrap, trap and zapCredit: Alvarez Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 20, ...

If it’s big enough and leafy enough the birds will come

Study highlights urban parks and bird diversityCredit: Graphic by Frank La Sorte using eBird data and data from the NYC ...

UC Davis Health tests monoclonal antibodies as potential COVID-19 treatment

Timothy Albertson was awarded BARDA grant to run the clinical trialCredit: UC Davis Health Timothy Albertson, chair of internal medicine ...

Advancing knowledge on archaea

An open-source data platform for researchers studying archaea is paving the way for new insights and educational opportunitiesCredit: Laboratory of ...

Indiana VA QUERI program receives $5 million to expand telehealth services for veterans

The EXTEND QUERI Center is being led by VA, Regenstrief and IU research scientistsCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- With a ...

Powerful human-like hands create safer human-robotics interactions

Credit: Credit: Changyong Cao EAST LANSING, Mich. - Need a robot with a soft touch? A team of Michigan State ...

SLAC’s upgraded X-ray laser facility produces first light

Marking the beginning of the LCLS-II era, the first phase of the major upgrade comes onlineCredit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory ...

Mutant zebrafish reveals a turning point in spine’s evolution