Engineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face mask
The prototype mask, which includes an N95 filter, can be easily sterilized and worn many timesCredit: MIT/Brigham and Women's Hospital ...
Month: July 2020
New treatment approach uses killer cells to treat deadly brain tumors
Purdue partners with V Foundation for Cancer Research and the Walther Cancer Foundation, in collaboration with Indiana University School of ...
Trust me if you can
Why stakeholders in the 'wind energy vs biological conservation' conflict have low mutual trust and how to increase itCredit: Christian ...
Cherned up to the maximum
Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Niels Schröter In topological materials, electrons can display behaviour that is fundamentally different from that in 'conventional' ...
The restoration of forests with active rapid ‘Ohi’a death infections may be possible
Credit: Stephanie Yelenik, Ph.D. Research Ecologist USGS, Pacific Island Ecosystem Research Center Hilo, Hawai'i - For the first time, researchers ...
Dissecting fruit flies’ varying responses to life-extension diet
Study may help explain how genes and other factors influence an individual's response to restricting caloriesCredit: Alice C. Gray Changes ...
WVU researchers leading $10 million sustainable biomass to value-added bioproducts project
Credit: West Virginia University As demand increases for sustainable and environmentally friendly energy and products, the Mid-Atlantic region with its ...
Bats offer clues to treating COVID-19
To combat COVID-19, we need to regulate our immune systems to resemble those of batsCredit: Getty Images photo Bats are ...
A new look at deep-sea microbes
UD study looks at life inside and outside of seafloor hydrocarbon seepsCredit: Graphic by Jeffrey C. Chase Microbial cells are ...
AI enables efficiencies in quantum information processing
Credit: U.S. Army image ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- A new machine learning framework could pave the way for small, ...
Study of giant ant heads using simple models may aid bio-inspired designs
Credit: Photo by Alex Wild. Researchers use a variety of modelling approaches to study form and function. By using a ...
Computing experts urge Supreme Court to narrowly interpret Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Group argues broad Interpretation could make some forms of computing research federal crimesCredit: Association for Computing Machinery The Association for ...
Hospital improves on-time administration of medication to Parkinson patients
A rigorous quality initiative involving the entire care team significantly improved on-time administration of levodopa and other medications, critical for ...
Is COVID-19 widening the gender gap in academic medicine?
Study finds fewer women publishing COVID-related papers, especially in early days of pandemicCredit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- A ...
Born to be a cannibal: Genes for feeding behavior in mandarin fish identified
Credit: HZAU Some mandarin fish species (Sinipercidae) are pure fish-eaters, which feed exclusively on living juvenile fish - also of ...
Surprisingly many peculiar long introns found in brain genes
Credit: MIPT Press Office In a recent study of genes involved in brain functioning, their previously unknown features have been ...
Cosmic cataclysm allows precise test of general relativity
Credit: Giovanni Ceribella/MAGIC Collaboration In 2019, the MAGIC telescopes detected the first Gamma Ray Burst at very high energies. This ...
Chinook salmon declines related to changes in freshwater conditions
Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service A new University of Alaska-led study provides the first evidence that declines in many ...
NASA sees storms wrapping around Tropical Cyclone Cristina
Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson The analysis of Tropical Cyclone Cristina's cloud top temperatures revealed some bands of thunderstorms were ...
Insilico Medicine and Arctoris to collaborate on COVID-19 by combining robotics and AI
Insilico Medicine and Arctoris announced a technology partnership to jointly discover and profile new therapeutics against COVID-19 by combining robotics ...
