Month: September 2020

Credit: (Photo: Elisa Mortin) Cosmic rays prove it: the universe hosts astrophysically elusive "monsters" that continuously and efficiently accelerate elementary ...

EU grant award of EUR 1.5 million to Norwegian university

The ELECTRODE project is focused on improving energy storage to increase the use of renewable energy.Credit: Thor Nielsen, NTNU The ...

Holistic bursting cells might be basis of brain cognition

A single cortical neuron represents a learned complex object as a whole, not as partsCredit: Ms. LOU Jia In the ...

Quntao Zhuang receives DARPA Young Faculty Award

University of Arizona electrical and computer engineer will advance research into quantum sensing capabilitiesCredit: Quntao Zhuang Quntao Zhuang, an assistant ...

New understanding of electrolyte additives will improve dye-sensitised solar cells

Researchers have demonstrated that certain molecules previously viewed as potentially detrimental to copper electrolyte performance are crucial to suppressing recombination ...

UArizona collaborates on $115M effort to build quantum computer

Three University of Arizona engineers are involved in the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, part of a $625 million ...

How to render AI linguistically more intelligent

Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, has won a 1.5 million euro ERC Starting Grant. His project introduces demographic factors into language ...

Trial to test nasal irrigations as COVID-19 treatment

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) are conducting a clinical trial to determine whether ...

IoT results-oriented exercise system for social distancing with field sensors, no gym needed

Tiny biological package gets drug right to the ‘heart’ of transplant rejection

Credit: Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using an original illustration by Poulami Majumder and tofactinib molecular model ...

ERC starting grants 2020: 677 million awarded to unravel scientific mysteries

Credit: ERC What can be done to improve the efficacy of vaccines? How can we predict our future climate? What ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles help wheat breeders

Credit: José Manuel Reyes Mendoza Breeding programs for crops with limited per-plant seed yield require one or more generations of ...

Wearable, portable invention offers options for treating antibiotic-resistant infections

Credit: Purdue University/Rahim Rahimi WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The rapid increase of life-threatening antibiotic-resistant infections has resulted in challenging wound ...

Insights into behavior during chimney tops 2 fire could improve evacuation planning

Credit: National Park Service As global temperatures continue to rise, cities and towns not historically prone to large wildfires may ...

UIC research discovers links among poor sleep, high blood pressure, gut microbiome

Study shows potential negative effects of disrupted sleepCredit: Mark Mershon/University of Illinois Chicago In the first study of its kind, ...

Researchers awarded $2 million grant to study the immune system and triple negative breast cancer

Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (September 2, 2020) - Liza Makowski, PhD, a professor in the Department of Medicine-Hematology-Oncology at the ...

Plant pathogens reorder physical structures of effectors to escape plant recognition

Credit: The American Phytopathology Society Phytophthora infestans is an oomycete, or water mold, that causes the devastating potato disease known ...

How mechanical forces nudge tumors toward malignancy

Credit: Laboratory of Cell Biology and Development at The Rockefeller University All cancers are the result of cells that have ...

Dartmouth-led team engineers new treatment for drug-resistant bacterial infections

Credit: Dartmouth Engineering The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has prioritized finding effective treatment of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...

Newly identified gene grants tomatoes resistance to bacterial speck disease