A new drought monitoring approach: Vector Projection Analysis (VPA)
Credit: UNIST A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has proposed a satellite-aided drought monitoring method that can adequately represent ...
Fit matters most when double masking to protect yourself from COVID-19
A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that wearing two face coverings can nearly double the effectiveness of filtering ...
Scientists report remarkable enhancement of α-particle clustering in uranium isotopes
Credit: ZHANG Zhiyuan It is always exciting to find new isotopes with extreme neutron/proton numbers in nuclear physics research. In ...
$50 million for WA to process signals from the dawn of time
Credit: ICRAR, SKAO The federal government will invest $50 million to establish a centre in Perth to process and analyse ...
Study sheds light on stellar origin of 60Fe
Credit: Physical Review Letters Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their ...
Wearable sensors that detect gas leaks
Credit: POSTECH Gas accidents such as toxic gas leakage in factories, carbon monoxide leakage of boilers, or toxic gas suffocation ...
Thermoelectric material discovery sets stage for new forms of electric power in the future
Clemson physicist joins forces with collaborators from China and Denmark to create hybrid compoundCredit: Clemson University College of Science Thermoelectrics ...
Highly dense urban areas are not more vulnerable to COVID-19, researchers say
Credit: Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir, Ayyoob Sharifi & Nabi Moradpour A person who owns a car or who has a college ...
Combining news media and AI to rapidly identify flooded buildings
Credit: MLIT, Shikoku Regional Development Bureau Artificial intelligence (AI) has sped up the process of detecting flooded buildings immediately after ...
Generation of super-resolved optical needle and multifocal array using graphene oxide metalenses
Credit: Opto-Electronic Advances In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI https://doi.org/10.29026/oea.2021.200031, Researchers led by Professor Baohua Jia at Swinburne ...
Virginia Tech and UVA virologists develop broadly protective coronavirus vaccines
Credit: Virginia Tech A candidate vaccine that could provide protection against the COVID-19 virus and other coronaviruses has shown promising ...
Are our oil and gas pipelines safe during an earthquake?
The research shows that current methods used for calculating stress received by the underground pipelines during an earthquake are incorrect.Credit: ...
New radiotracer safe and effective for imaging early rheumatoid arthritis
Credit: Image created by Olli Moisio, MSc, and Riikka Viitanen, PhD, Turku PET Centre. Reston, VA--New research shows that a ...
Virtual humans are equal to real ones in helping people practice new leadership skills
Research into the use of virtual and mixed reality technologies for training suggests a wide range of applicationsCredit: Gonzalo Suárez, ...
Experimental antiviral for COVID-19 effective in hamster study
MK-4482 shows potential to prevent and treat SARS-CoV-2 infectionCredit: NIAID WHAT: The experimental antiviral drug MK-4482 significantly decreased levels of ...
An antibody-drug combo to combat cancer
Credit: Department of Biodefense Research,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - Leukemias are debilitating cancers of the hematopoietic or blood-forming cells of the ...
Promising results from first-in-humans study of a novel PET radiopharmaceutical
Study continues with rheumatoid arthritis patientsCredit: Anne Roivainen The preliminary trial results of a novel radiopharmaceutical for PET imaging of ...
Tiny cat-sized stegosaur leaves its mark
Credit: Kamitoge A single footprint left by a cat-sized dinosaur around 100 million years ago has been discovered in China ...
Long-term consequences of CO2 emissions
Oxygen in the ocean will continue to decrease for many centuriesCredit: C. Kersten, modified from A. Oschlies, 2021, GEOMAR. The ...
Sunlight to solve the world’s clean water crisis
Credit: University of South Australia Researchers at UniSA have developed a cost-effective technique that could deliver safe drinking water to ...