Study offers real world perspective on how Black patients experience mental healthcare
Research provides insight into how perceptions of bias affect engagement with providersCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLlS - In a novel study ...
Month: September 2020
Fish, seaweed inspire slippery surfaces for ships
Marine vehicles can reduce friction by mimicking the way aquatic creatures secrete mucusCredit: Hyung Jin Sung WASHINGTON, September 15, 2020 ...
Vaping, marijuana use in 2019 rose in college-age adults
Increases are among the largest in history of national studyCredit: National Institute on Drug Abuse Vaping marijuana and vaping nicotine ...
Multi-university effort to study the Earth’s hidden critical zone- NSF grant
Credit: Virginia Tech Look out your window or step outside and look around you. Depending on where you live, you're ...
Energy harvesting goes organic, gets more flexible
Self-assembled peptides, when aligned, show great promise for electricity generation.Credit: Sawsan Almohammed WASHINGTON, September 15, 2020 -- Nanogenerators capable of ...
Progress toward antiviral treatments for COVID-19
Information about the molecular shape of the viruses that cause COVID-19, SARS, and MERS reveals structural similarities that suggest possible ...
Protecting genomic privacy
Computer and data sciences researcher improving privacy for global genomic data sharing network, supported by $1.2 million NIH grantCredit: Case ...
NASA sees Tropical Depression Rene dissipating
Credit: Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image ...
NASA-NOAA satellite’s “night vision” find wind shear battering Tropical Storm Vicky
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Infrared imagery is like having night vision, and ...
Johns Hopkins expert leads effort to spur accurate research on climate, COVID-19
Studies declaring link need more data, peer-reviewed confirmation, WMO saysCredit: Johns Hopkins University Ben Zaitchik, a professor of Earth and ...
The Wnt pathway gets even more complicated
Credit: ©Batista Rocha/IMBA The Wnt signalling pathway has been studied for decades, still it holds surprises in store. Bon-Kyoung Koo, ...
Prometheus Fuels licenses energy-saving ORNL ethanol-to-jet-fuel process
Credit: Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Prometheus Fuels has licensed an ethanol-to-jet-fuel conversion process developed by researchers at the ...
Stem cells engineered to evade immune system hold promise for ‘off-the-shelf’ grafts
Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC - Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) hold promise in the field of regenerative medicine for ...
Elements of surprise: neutron stars contribute little, but something’s making gold, research finds
Colliding neutron stars were touted as the main source of some of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table. Now, ...
The Josep Carreras Institute identifies a marker of poor evolution in Hodgkin’s lymphoma
The marker that allows predicting which patient with Hodgkin's lymphoma will present an aggressive clinical course, and will therefore be ...
Aiming for accuracy
Researchers say artificial intelligence and machine learning could enhance scientific peer reviewCredit: The University of New Mexico As the COVID-19 ...
Ultra-fast magnetic switching with potential to transform fibre optical communications
Credit: CRANN, and Trinity College Dublin. Researchers at CRANN and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered ...
Successful improvement of the catalytic activity of photosynthetic CO2 fixing enzyme Rubisco
Credit: Credit: Modified Fig. 1A of Matsumura et al. Molecular Plant (2020). A research group consisting of Associate Professor FUKAYAMA ...
Single photons from a silicon chip
HZDR team develops novel source for quantum light particlesCredit: HZDR/Juniks Quantum technology holds great promise: Just a few years from ...
Princeton lab discovers small “Cain-and-Abel” molecule
Streptosactin named the first small molecule in the human microbiome to exhibit fratricidal activity.Credit: Figure courtesy of Leah Bushin. A ...
