Month: September 2020

Credit: Lawson Health Research Institute LONDON, ONTARIO - For patients with kidney stones, ureteral stents (hollow devices placed in the ...

UTA computer scientists investigating framework for sharing sensor data

Business model would share sensor dataCredit: UT Arlington Sensors are everywhere, collecting data in nearly every part of society and ...

A clearer view of what makes glass rigid

Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Researchers led by The University of Tokyo employed ...

Potential drug target for dangerous E. coli infections identified

Credit: UNSW Sydney Escherichia coli, known as E. coli, are bacteria which many people associate with causing mild food poisoning, ...

3D printed nasal swabs work as well as commercial swabs for COVID-19 diagnostic testing

A multisite clinical trial, led by USF Health and Tampa General Hospital, provides the first evidence that both devices are ...

PLUS takes 3D ultrasound images of solids

Credit: Yoshikazu Ohara, Tohoku University A new system, developed by Tohoku University researchers in Japan in collaboration with Los Alamos ...

Pair of massive baby stars swaddled in salty water vapor

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tanaka et al. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers spotted a pair of massive baby ...

Machine learning takes on synthetic biology: algorithms can bioengineer cells for you

Berkeley Lab scientists develop a tool that could drastically speed up the ability to design new biological systemsCredit: Thor Swift/Berkeley ...

Tree rings show scale of Arctic pollution is worse than previously thought

Credit: Dr Alexander Kirdyanov The largest-ever study of tree rings from Norilsk in the Russian Arctic has shown that the ...

New study to uncover how climate change and tectonics drove evolution in East Africa

First-of-its-kind international study is rooted in 17 million year-old whale fossilCredit: Isaiah Nengo STONY BROOK, NY, (Under Embargo until September ...

Novel neuroimaging study on dissociative symptoms reveals wounds of childhood trauma

Researchers have found connections in the brain to dissociative symptomsCredit: McLean Hospital Being traumatized can cause what are known as ...

Historical racial & ethnic health inequities account for disproportionate COVID-19 impact

Credit: ATS Sept. 22, 2020-- A new Viewpoint piece published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines ...

High-performance single-atom catalysts for high-temperature fuel cells

Individual Pt atoms participate in catalytic reaction to faciitate the electrode process by up to 10 times. Single-atom Pt catalysts ...

Ultrapotent compound may help treat C. diff, reduce recurrence

Credit: Herman O. Sintim/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, is the leading cause of health ...

Simpler models may be better for determining some climate risk

Credit: NOAA Typically, computer models of climate become more and more complex as researchers strive to capture more details of ...

Tracking shape changes in amazon fish after major river is dammed

Cichlid fishes, able to respond rapidly to environmental change, offer good modelCredit: UMass Amherst/Albertson lab A team of biologists led ...

Atom-Billiards with X-Rays: a new Approach to look inside of Molecules

Credit: Stefan Eisebitt/Max Born Institute In 1921, Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery that light ...

First PhytoFrontiers paper discusses arabidopsis response to caterpillars

Credit: APS The PhytoFrontiers™ editorial board, led by editor-in-chief Nik Grünwald and associate editor-in-chief Steve Klosterman, is pleased to announce ...

3D camera earns its stripes at Rice

Engineers develop Hyperspectral Stripe Projector to quickly merge depth, spectral dataCredit: Kelly Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 24, 2020) - ...

Color-coded biosensor illuminates in real time how viruses attack hosts