Using a volcano’s eruption ‘memory’ to forecast dangerous follow-on explosions
Credit: Pixabay Stromboli, the 'lighthouse of the Mediterranean', is known for its low-energy but persistent explosive eruptions, behaviour that is ...
Month: October 2020
Sea turtle nesting season winding down in Florida, some numbers are up and it’s unexpected
Green turtle nest counts are the fifth highest recorded since 1982, in a year when their numbers were supposed to ...
Election 2020 chatter on Twitter busy with bots, conspiracy theorists, USC study finds
The partisan divide -- among the botsCredit: USC Institute for Information Sciences Bots and conspiracy theorists have infested the Twitter ...
Home-time metric needed to judge hospital readmissions, studies suggest
Medicare should look at the number of days spent home after discharge to ensure that low readmission rates don't reflect ...
Social isolation puts women at higher risk of hypertension
Credit: UBC It's no secret that loneliness and social isolation have a negative impact on the mental and physical health ...
Tabba Heart Institute and IHME collaborate to improve health
Novel analysis on the burden of cardiovascular diseases in Pakistan will help shape health policies designed to save livesCredit: Courtesy ...
Researchers break magnetic memory speed record
Advance could lead to new generation of ultrafast computer chips that retain data even when there is no powerCredit: Image ...
Artificial intelligence-based algorithm for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s
Machine-learning algorithm detects early stages of Alzheimer's through functional magnetic resonance imagingCredit: H. Parmar et al. doi 10.1117/1.JMI.7.5.056001. Alzheimer's disease ...
New dataset provides county-level exposure numbers for tropical cyclones, human health
Credit: Anderson et al. Hurricanes and other tropical cyclones can severely impact human health in communities across the country, but ...
A patch that could help heal broken hearts
Credit: Adapted from ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c00942 According to the American Heart Association, heart disease is ...
Let’s (not) stick together
New Pitt research examines mechanics of mucus in cystic fibrosis patientsCredit: Tagbo Niepa / University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of ...
Major new African genome study finds varieties that inform African history, migration and immunity
Wits geneticists and partners today published a ground breaking study that informs African population history, environmental adaptation, and susceptibility to ...
Habitat loss is bad news for species – especially for top predators
Credit: Anna Nilsen/Linköping University Scientists at Linköping University, Sweden, have simulated what happens in ecosystems when the habitats of different ...
Cell biology gurus and UCF Bioimaging expert partner to crack 4th dimension secrets
The collaboration may lead to new understanding about the role of movement of nuclear organization in gene expression, which could ...
Why are some COVID-19 infected people asymptomatic?
Credit: Lisbeth Heilesen, Aarhus University Researchers worldwide have been surprised to see that individuals can be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 ...
A new RNA catalyst from the lab
Credit: Image: Claudia Hoebartner / University of Wuerzburg Enzymes enable biochemical reactions that would otherwise not take place on their ...
Climate change drives plants to extinction in the Black Forest in Germany, study finds
Credit: Thomas Sperle Climate change is leaving its mark on the bog complexes of the German Black Forest. Due to ...
Models for potential precursors of cells endure simulated early-Earth conditions
Researchers demonstrate the behavior of membraneless 'protocell' compartments through multiple rounds of wet-dry cyclingCredit: Hadi Fares, Penn State Membraneless compartments--models ...
Cracking the secrets of dinosaur eggshells
Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.0c03334 Since the famous discovery of dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert in ...
CAMERA awarded £10 million for interactive and visual computing research
Credit: University of Bath The University of Bath is thrilled to announce that CAMERA, the Centre for the Analysis of ...
