AI pinpoints local pollution hotspots using satellite images
Technique could help find sources of heavy air pollution and allow researchers to better study its effects on human health ...
Month: April 2021
From smoky skies to a green horizon: Scientists convert fire-risk wood waste into biofuel
A simplified new process transforms wood waste from agriculture and forest management into ethanolCredit: Berkeley Lab Reliance on petroleum fuels ...
Southeast Regional Sun Grant Center announces grant recipients
Supporting innovation in sustainable, bio-derived productsCredit: Image courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The Southeast Regional Sun Grant Center at the ...
$3M awarded to orthopedics researcher to study role of gut microbiome on osteoarthritis
Michael Zuscik, Ph.D., says the research could lead to the first disease-modifying treatment for patients with osteoarthritisCredit: Michael Zuscik, PhD ...
Agricultural trade across US states can mitigate economic impacts of climate change
Credit: University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - Agricultural producers deal firsthand with changing weather conditions, and extreme events such as ...
Understanding the growth of disease-causing protein fibres
UK researchers from the University of Bath and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source have developed a method to directly ...
FSU engineers improve performance of high-temperature superconductor wires
Credit: Mark Wallheiser/FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Florida State University researchers have discovered a novel way to improve the performance of ...
UGA to establish national NIH-funded center to fight flu
Credit: Peter Frey/UGA The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University of Georgia a contract to establish the Center ...
Microorganisms on the Rio Grande Rise are a basis for life and a possible origin of metals
Researchers conducted the first large-scale survey of the microbiota present in the seamount's ferromanganese crusts, describing bacteria and archaea involved ...
New NASA visualization probes the light-bending dance of binary black holes
Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell A pair of orbiting black holes millions of ...
Process simultaneously removes toxic metals and salt to produce clean water
Adding absorbent nanoparticles to polymer membranes simplifies desalinationCredit: UC Berkeley photos courtesy of Adam Uliana University of California, Berkeley, chemists ...
Study: New approach may boost prostate cancer immunotherapies
Strategy focuses on reprogramming tissues surrounding the tumor to help the body's immune system attack the cancerCredit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES ...
Worm infestation in intestine has a remote effect on viral defenses
Helminths impair immune response in the female genital tract, study by Universities of Cape Town and Bonn showsCredit: © Pia ...
Environmental protection could benefit from ‘micro’ as well as ‘macro’ thinking
Credit: Luke Holman Scientists at the University of Southampton have conducted a study that highlights the importance of studying a ...
Oxygen migration enables ferroelectricity on nanoscale
Credit: University of Groningen Hafnium-based thin films, with a thickness of only a few nanometres, show an unconventional form of ...
Japanese-European research team discovers novel genetic mitochondrial disorder
Team of Japanese and European scientists identify a novel genetic mitochondrial disorder by analyzing DNA samples from three distinct familiesCredit: ...
Plastics could see a second life as biodegradable surfactants
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory Scientists at the Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP), an Energy Frontier ...
Long-term survival rates for immunotherapies could be misinterpreted
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed cancer care to the point where the popular Cox proportional-hazards ...
Peering through the clouds of Earth’s ‘Evil Twin’ surprises NRL sky watchers
Credit: Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists were ...
Forest elephants are now critically endangered – here’s how to count them
Study compared different methodologies using dung, DNA analysis, and camera trapsCredit: WCS Gabon LIBREVILLE, Gabon (April 15 2021) - A ...
