New climate model helps researchers better predict water needs
Credit: Mark Wallheiser/FAMU-FSU College of Engineering New research from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering combines climate and land use projections ...
Month: October 2020
Pesticides and food scarcity dramatically reduce wild bee population
Study finds 57% drop in reproduction when exposed to both threatsCredit: Clara Stuligross/UC Davis The loss of flowering plants and ...
Gladstone investigator receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
Seth Shipman is recognized for his exceptionally creative research approachCredit: Credit: Gladstone Institutes SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- The National Institutes ...
Community health workers could play a key part in combating COVID-19 in Brazil, study says
An article in The Lancet stresses the vulnerability of these health workers, whose readiness to counter fake news with trustworthy ...
Story Tips: Remote population counting, slowing corrosion and turning down the heat
Credit: Adam Malin/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Census - Remote population counting Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists helped count the ...
Nobel Prize awarded for research with ESO telescopes on Milky Way’s central black hole
Credit: ESO/S. Gillessen et al. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have jointly been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics ...
$5.5 million NIH grant supports new tests to diagnose dementias earlier and easier
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University seek to optimize emerging methods of diagnosing two common neurodegenerative diseases -- dementia with ...
Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes black hole discoveries
APS Fellow Andrea Ghez among 2020 Nobel Laureates who uncovered some of the "darkest secrets of the Universe"Credit: American Physical ...
The plant hormone auxin may promote disease by regulating virulence gene expression
Credit: APS Scientists have long known that the plant hormone auxin controls many aspects of plant growth, development, and responses ...
Hunting for the lowest known nuclear-excited state
Measurements in thorium-229 take a step towards the direct laser excitation of an atomic nucleus in this unique isotopeCredit: photo/©: ...
UMD biologist awarded $ 1.5 million to develop brain mapping techniques
NIH's High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program will fund a project that could transform efforts to understand how neurons are wired.Credit: Courtesy ...
Predicting sports performance with “big data”
Credit: Polar Electro Oy Smartphones and wearable devices are not simple accessories for athletes. A CNRS researcher* has developed a ...
Liquid gel in COVID patients’ lungs makes way for new treatment
Credit: Lena Mustonen In some patients who died with severe COVID-19 and respiratory failure, a jelly was formed in the ...
NASA’s TESS creates a cosmic vista of the northern sky
Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA) Familiar stars shine, nebulae glow, and nearby galaxies tantalize in a new panorama of ...
Two NRL research physicists named 2020 citation laureates ‘of nobel class’
Credit: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two research physicists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory were named Citation ...
New research supports sofosbuvir in combination with other antivirals for COVID-19
Study demonstrates that RNA terminated by Hepatitis C Drug Sofosbuvir is more resistant to SARS-CoV-2 proofreader than RNA terminated by ...
Who is driving whom? Climate and carbon cycle in perpetual interaction
Bremen climate scientists disclose changing feedback mechanisms between climate and global carbon cycle over the last 35 million yearsCredit: William ...
Multi-institutional team extracts more energy from sunlight with advanced solar panels
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers working to maximize solar panel efficiency said layering advanced materials ...
Montana researcher earns multiple awards for ear, skin science
Credit: Photo by Tommy Martino MISSOULA - University of Montana scientist Monica Serban is on a research roll. In recent ...
Breaking the coupling process
Credit: Illustration: Gerhard Stock, Steffen Wolf Proteins transduce information and signals within the human body by changes in their structures. ...
