Month: April 2021

Credit: Photo by Randy Montoya/Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- What do tiny dust particles, 22-foot-wide red balloons and "concentrated" ...

HHU evolutionary biologist Prof. Dr. William Martin receives third ERC advanced grant

European funding for cutting-edge researchCredit: HHU / Verena Zimorski The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a coveted Advanced Grant ...

Know your ally: Cooperative male dolphins can tell who’s on their team

Credit: Dr Simon Allen When it comes to friendships and rivalries, male dolphins know who the good team players are. ...

From Interferon to Philanthropy: Autobiography of Dr. Jan Vilcek published as audiobook

Vilcek Foundation releases audiobook memoir of Dr. Jan Vilcek, narrated by Daniel K. IsaacCredit: Photo courtesy of the Vilcek Foundation. ...

Membranes unlock potential to vastly increase cell-free vaccine production

Research sets the stage for biotech to generate 1 billion doses in less than a monthCredit: Justin Muir By cracking ...

ALMA discovers rotating infant galaxy with help of natural cosmic telescope

Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Fujimoto et al., NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers found a ...

Emergency EMR created in a week to respond to COVID-19 crisis

Lessons learned can be applied in future health crisesCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- A team from Regenstrief Institute leveraged OpenMRS, ...

Next generation of swimming biobots can self-train, showing striking speed and strength

Credit: IBEC Robotics field aims at mimicking what natural biological entities have achieved throughout millennia of evolution - actions like ...

Improving survival in pancreatic cancer

Suppressing a gene regulator could reduce pancreatic cancer resistance to vital chemotherapeutic treatment.Credit: Yutaka Kondo Nagoya University researchers and colleagues ...

Climate change atlas offers a glimpse into forest futures

USDA Forest Service overhauls a popular toolCredit: USDA Forest Service Delaware, Ohio, April 21, 2021-- For 20 years, the USDA ...

Warming seas might also look less colorful to some fish. Here’s why that matters.

Climate change is driving some fish into cooler, deeper waters. Now they may be faced with another challenge: how to ...

Children exposed to intimate partner violence twice as likely to have poorer health

Credit: Jonathan Borba A new study has found up to half of all children with language difficulties and mental and ...

Large NIH clinical trial will test polyclonal antibody therapeutic for COVID-19

Credit: NIAID A Phase 2/3 trial to evaluate a new fully-human polyclonal antibody therapeutic targeted to SARS-CoV-2, called SAB-185, has ...

From pollutant to resource: WVU scientists push rare earth element technologies closer to production

Credit: WVU Water researchers at West Virginia University hope to turn a pollutant - acid mine drainage - into a ...

Acceleration Consortium applies artificial intelligence to discovery of advanced materials

New collaboration on self-driving laboratories to focus on materials design in the areas of energy, the environment, structural and biomedical ...

1 of 695 Fast mitigation of power grids instability risks

Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech Skoltech scientists in collaboration with researchers from the University of Arizona and the Los Alamos ...

COVID-19 peaks reflect time-dependent social activity, not herd immunity

Scientists developed a model showing that a fragile, temporary state of immunity emerged during the early epidemic but got destroyed ...

Collaborative research could help fine-tune the production of antimalarials, chemo drugs

'We're helping cells figure out how to tolerate chemicals for themselves'Credit: National Cancer Institute Much of common pharmaceutical development today ...

Grant aims to reduce prostate cancer disparities among black men

$250,000 grant funded by Pfizer Global Medical Grants and overseen by the American Cancer Society is Aimed at Reducing Gaps ...

Central African forests are unequally vulnerable to global change