Projects led by Pitt chemical engineers receive more than $1 million in NSF funding
Credit: University of Pittsburgh Two projects led by professors in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University...
PET/MRI improves lesion detection, reduces radiation exposure
Credit: Images created by Ole Martin, University Dusseldorf, Medical Faculty and Benedikt Schaarschmidt, University Hospital Essen. Reston, VA--A single-center observational...
Algorithms uncover cancers’ hidden genetic losses and gains
Credit: Thomas Ried, NCI Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health Understanding the specific mutations that...
Wildfire on the rise since 1984 in Northern California’s coastal ranges
From Berryessa to Klamath Mountains, high-severity burns quadrupled during warm droughtCredit: UC Davis High-severity wildfires in northern coastal California have...
Hubble captures crisp new portrait of Jupiter’s storms
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team...
New study identifies wheat varieties that resist the destructive stripe rust disease
Credit: Lu Liu, Meinan Wang, Zhiwu Zhang, Deven R. See, and Xianming Chen Stripe rust is one of the most...
Ecologists sound alarm on plastic pollution
Credit: CreativeCause.com.au TORONTO, ON - Ecologists studying the prevalence of plastic pollution in aquatic ecosystems around the world are concerned...
New high-speed test shows how antibiotics combine to kill bacteria
Credit: Nikos Fatsis-Kavalopoulos Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method to determine - rapidly, easily and cheaply -...
NASA finds a fading wispy Tropical Depression Vicky
Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Terra satellite found Vicky to be a shadow of its former self, devoid of precipitation around its...
The brain’s memory abilities inspire AI experts in making neural networks less ‘forgetful’
UMass Amherst, Baylor researchers collaborate on imitating brain's 'replay' abilityCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Artificial intelligence (AI) experts at...
University of Cincinnati research produces different results from key China COVID-19 study
Findings could help guide future research on the virusCredit: Photo/Joseph Fuqua III/UC Creative + Brand Early in the onset of...
Shedding light on the development of efficient blue-emitting semiconductors
Credit: Tokyo Tech Artificial light accounts for approximately 20% of the total electricity consumed globally. Considering the present environmental crisis,...
All-optical method sets record for ultrafast high-spatial-resolution imaging: 15 trillion frames per second
New all-optical imaging technique with an unprecedented frame rate allows scientists to visualize ultrafast transient phenomenaCredit: Zeng et al., doi...
New calculation refines comparison of matter with antimatter
Theorists publish improved prediction for the tiny difference in kaon decays observed by experimentsCredit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--An international...