Designing safer opioids
Opioid medications offer people relief from debilitating pain, but these drugs come with dangers: the risk for addiction, miserable withdrawal ...
Year: 2024
Understanding willingness to pay for nationwide wastewater surveillance in Japan
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic and the increased likelihood of other such outbreaks in the future warrant the strengthening of epidemic ...
Powerful new particle accelerator a step closer with muon-marshalling technology
New experimental results show particles called muons can be corralled into beams suitable for high-energy collisions, paving the way for ...
New study reveals more struggling to afford healthcare
WASHINGTON, D.C. — July 17, 2024 — The percentage of Americans who can afford and access prescription drugs and quality ...
Grain boundaries weaken in planetary interiors
Mantle convection and associated plate tectonics of planets like the Earth are governed by the deformation of mantle rocks. This ...
Intensive farming could raise risk of new pandemics
Intensive livestock farming could raise the risk of new pandemics, researchers have warned.Credit: Stephen Hinchliffe Intensive livestock farming could raise ...
UTA biologist wins national fellowship to study historic pollution
A biology researcher at The University of Texas at Arlington has received a prestigious grant to continue and expand his ...
Microplastic pollution increases sea foam height and stability
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2024 — From cloud formation to sea temperatures, sea foam plays many roles in the dynamic interactions ...
Pocket-sized invention revolutionizes ability to detect harmful materials
Imagine knowing what berry or mushroom is safe to eat during a hike or swiftly detecting pathogens in a hospital ...
Supplements slow disease progression during late stage of “dry” age-related macular degeneration
In a new analysis of data, researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that taking a daily ...
Vanderbilt scientists develop new tool that could lead to noninvasive “liquid biopsies”
Biopsies are clinical tools commonly used to diagnose a variety of diseases or to monitor tissue for abnormal growth or ...
Researchers find that frogs can quickly increase their tolerance to pesticides
Although there is a large body of research on pests evolving tolerances for the pesticides meant to destroy them, there ...
Scientists use machine learning to predict diversity of tree species in forests
A collaborative team of researchers led by Ben Weinstein of the University of Florida, Oregon, US, used machine learning to ...
UCF researchers receive $1.2M DARPA grant to improve autonomous systems training
Autonomous systems, such as self-driving cars and unmanned aircraft, learn from modeling and simulation. However, the training process can take months to years, ...
Metamaterials for the data highway
Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), TU Chemnitz, TU Dresden and Forschungszentrum Jülich have been the first to demonstrate that ...
Mapping global rooftop growth for sustainable energy and urban planning
A novel machine learning framework developed by IIASA researchers to estimate global rooftop area growth from 2020 to 2050 can ...
Breakthrough in quantum microscopy: Stuttgart researchers are making electrons visible in slow motion
"With the method we developed, we can make things visible that no one has seen before," says Prof. Sebastian Loth, ...
USGS: Local dragonflies expose mercury pollution patterns
A new study has unveiled surprising findings about mercury pollution: where it comes from and how it moves through the ...
E-sales of a wild bat sold as décor threaten species
A fiery orange bat, its wings folded and tiny teeth forever bared on its fuzzy face, is mounted inside a ...
Chlorinated flame retardants affect avian embryonic development
Short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs) were listed under the category of globally controlled persistent organic pollutants (POPs) by the Stockholm Convention ...