Study reveals risk factors for acute kidney injury after brain hemorrhage
Acute kidney injury linked to higher rate of death within three months of intracerebral hemorrhageCredit: Justin Kelley Patients who suffer ...
Month: October 2020
Blocking vibrations that remove heat could boost efficiency of next-gen solar cells
Credit: Jill Hemman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy Led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University ...
Harvard Wyss Institute’s nasal swab and toehold switch technologies licensed to Agile Biodetection
The two technologies function at different points of the diagnostic process and could help detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the ...
6,500-year-old copper workshop uncovered in the Negev Desert’s Beer Sheva
Tel Aviv University and Israel Antiquities Authority believe copper-producing technology was closely guarded secretCredit: Anat Rasiuk, Israel Antiquities Authority A ...
Two’s a crowd: Nuclear and renewables don’t mix
Only the latter can deliver truly low carbon energy, says new studyCredit: University of Sussex If countries want to lower ...
Deep learning gives drug design a boost
Rice translator expands metabolite prediction of chemical reactions in the human bodyCredit: Kavraki Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 5, 2020) ...
A RUDN University biologist described how a harmless bacterium turns into a phytopathogen
Credit: RUDN University A researcher from RUDN University suggested that Xanthomonas bacteria that are harmful to plants might have developed ...
Are brain-computer interface spellers secure?
Credit: @Science China Press Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) record and decode brain signals to construct a communication pathway, which allows people ...
Amphiphilic AIE-active sensor: Breaking the bottleneck of AIE bioimaging
Credit: @Science China Press Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) sensors bestow distinct advantages on bioimaging, especially in lighting up organelles with targeting ...
Hunger encourages risk-taking
Meta-analysis by research team from the universities of Bielefeld and Jena shows that in animals, difficult living conditions increase risk-taking ...
A RUDN University physicist simplified the Einstein-lovelock theory for black holes
Credit: RUDN University Allowing for quantum corrections, the Einstein-Lovelock theory describes black holes with an equation that contains an infinite ...
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researcher receives award to study pediatric brain cancer
Prestigious $300,000 Rally Foundation grant supports exploration of a subgroup of pediatric brain tumors that tend to be particularly deadlyCredit: ...
Efficient pollen identification
Interdisciplinary team of researchers combines image-based particle analysis with artificial intelligenceCredit: Susanne Dunker From pollen forecasting, honey analysis and climate-related ...
80-year-old antibiotic redesigned for new medical uses
Synthetic strategy to enhance natural chemistryCredit: Image by Hiroaki Itoh, first published in Nature Communications, CC-BY. Physicians and scientists have ...
NIH intramural researcher Dr. Harvey Alter wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Credit: NIH National Institutes of Health intramural researcher Harvey J. Alter, M.D., has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
Potential drug treatment for particular type of lung-cancer
Credit: Kanazawa University The effectiveness of cancer treatment is often hampered by cancer cells being heterogeneous. This is the case ...
Microscope lens inspired by lighthouse
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Andrea Bertoncini An optical device that resembles a miniaturized lighthouse lens can make it easier to ...
New tools improve care for cancers that spread to the brain
Credit: UVA Health Ambitious efforts at UVA Cancer Center to improve care delivered to patients with cancer that has spread ...
Statistical model improves analysis of skin conductance
Credit: Sandya Subramanian/MIT Picower Institute Electrodermal activity - the sweat-induced fluctuations of skin conductance made famous in TV dramatizations of ...
On the trail of causes of radiation events during space flight
Lessons from conjunction observations with ISS detectors and the Arase satelliteCredit: Ryuho Kataoka et al., 2020 Scientists have made significant ...
