University of Kentucky receives renewed $11.4 million grant to further cancer research
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 25, 2022) — The University of Kentucky’s Center for Cancer and Metabolism (CCM) will continue its critical mission to research the...
Building lighter with concrete: How concrete 3D printing saves material and CO2
Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world. It can be used in many ways, can be...
Self-powered fabric can help correct posture in real time with the help of machine learning
Posture is an important part of health. Prolonged poor posture, such as slouching or leaning to one side, can lead...
Ontario’s eConsult service fills digital healthcare gap, particularly with COVID’s arrival
While COVID-19 amplified the gaps in Ontario’s digital healthcare network, the province’s eConsult service has provided clinicians with a necessary...
Optical cavities could provide new technological possibilities
A research team from the Norwegian University of Science and Technolgy (NTNU) is studying a topic called optical cavities and...
Hot-blooded T. rex and cold-blooded Stegosaurus: chemical clues reveal dinosaur metabolisms
For decades, paleontologists have debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like modern mammals and birds, or cold-blooded, like modern reptiles. Knowing...
Kessler Foundation receives $1.8 million federal grant for traumatic brain injury study of learning deficits
East Hanover, NJ – May 25, 2022. Kessler Foundation received a five-year $1,897,605 grant from the National Institute of Neurological...
Early urbanism found in the Amazon
More than 20 years ago, Dr. Heiko Prümers from the German Archaeological Institute and Prof. Dr. Carla Jaimes Betancourt from...
Silicone wristbands track firefighters’ exposures to harmful chemicals
DURHAM, N.C. -- Firefighters have a 9 percent higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer and a 14 percent higher...
Killing cancers with Z-DNA: A new approach to treating therapy resistant tumors that targets a very-specific cell-death pathway
In a paper appearing in Nature today, an international group of scientists have unlocked a new way to kill hard...
Error-free quantum computing gets real
In modern computers errors during processing and storage of information have become a rarity due to high-quality fabrication. However, for...
Palaeospondylus: Long-standing mystery of vertebrate evolution solved using powerful X-rays
The Evolutionary Morphology Laboratory led by Shigeru Kuratani at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) in Japan, along with collaborators, has...
Mice choose best escape route without ever experiencing threat
Escaping imminent danger is essential for survival. Animals must learn a new environment fast enough for them to be able...
Climate change reveals unique artefacts in melting ice patches
One day more than 3000 years ago, someone lost a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the...