Month: December 2020

Findings could help hospitals improve emergency department care and follow-up for people aged 50 to 80Credit: University of Michigan Even ...

COVID-19 preprint data rapidly influenced critical care practice

Credit: ATS Dec. 15, 2020-- In a new research letter published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of ...

Wireless, ultra-thin and battery-free strain sensors that are 10 times more sensitive

Credit: National University of Singapore A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Assistant Professor Chen ...

Earable computing: A new research area in the making

Credit: Romit Roy Choudhury, The Grainger College of Engineering CSL's Systems and Networking Research Group (SyNRG) is defining a new ...

Proteins enable crop-infecting fungi to ‘smell’ food

Humans use same proteins to smell, taste, and seeCredit: Vincent Wu/JGI New research shows the same proteins that enable human ...

Researchers use origami to solve space travel challenge

Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. -- WSU researchers have used the ancient Japanese art of paper folding to possibly solve a ...

Structural racism severely impacts the health of foreign-born Blacks and Latinx

New study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine highlights the magnitude of the disparities in health of racial/ethnic minorities ...

Purdue researchers uncover blind spots at the intersection of AI and neuroscience

Findings debunk dozens of prominent published papers claiming to read minds with EEGCredit: Chris Adam/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - ...

What makes human intelligence exceptional? The answer may be hidden inside this game

Scientists launch hexxed - a free mobile game designed to map human intelligence across the globeCredit: Marta Correia. The Champalimaud ...

Recovery of an endangered Caribbean coral from parrotfish predation

Coral tissue loss was driven by a few exceptionally large predation scars, but 87% of scars were small and likely ...

Researchers assess regenerative patch for spina bifida defect

Credit: Ramesha Papanna, MD, MPH Researchers are investigating whether a human umbilical cord patch placed on the spina bifida defect ...

Dallas Heart Study yields new insights about depression

UT Southwestern researchers find links between inflammation, menopause, and depressive disorderCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Dec. 14, 2020 ...

Emerging from the fog: Little understood post-stroke cognitive issues are verified

Credit: Marsh et al. After Julia had a minor stroke, she was thankful for receiving rapid treatment and recovering well. ...

A human gene placed in fruit flies reveals details about a human developmental disorder

Meier-Gorlin syndrome is a rare genetic developmental disorder that causes dwarfism, small ears, a small brain, missing patella and other ...

Nanoengineered cement shows promise for sealing leaky gas wells

Credit: Pa Department of Environmental Protection Leaking natural gas wells are considered a potential source of methane emissions, and a ...

Marine pollution: How do plastic additives dilute in water and how risky are they?

Scientists provide improved method to estimate public exposure to hazardous micropollutants from plastic wasteCredit: Seung-Kyu Kim from Incheon National University ...

West Nile virus infection risk is higher in less affluent neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD

Study finds abundance of infected mosquitos varies with neighborhood incomeCredit: Photo by Edwin Remsberg In Baltimore, Maryland, people living in ...

Robotic exoskeleton training improves walking in adolescents with acquired brain injury

New Jersey researchers find potential for gait training using robotic exoskeletons in the rehabilitation of adolescents and young adults with ...

Virtual reality applied to rehabilitation for stroke and neurodegenerative disease patients

A study performed at one of the Research Centers supported by FAPESP resulted in development of a novel rehabilitation device. ...

Salt-tolerant bacteria with an appetite for sludge make biodegradable plastics