What tiny surfing robots teach us about surface tension
Credit: Saeed Jafari Kang and Hassan Masoud/Michigan Tech Spend an afternoon by a creek in the woods, and you're likely...
Study shows how climate impacts food webs, poses socioeconomic threat in Eastern Africa
Climate impacts on Lake Tanganyika are a bellwether for global change worldwide, team saysCredit: Michael McGlue, University of Kentucky LEXINGTON,...
WVU receives $1.2 million telehealth grant to connect rural ERs with medical specialists
Credit: West Virginia University Rural emergency departments often lack the medical specialists who staff larger, urban hospitals. Yet rural patients...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UT’s Tony Schmitz elected to ASPE College of Fellows
Credit: Carlos Jones, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/U.S. Dept. of Energy Tony Schmitz, joint faculty researcher in machining and machine tools...
A new look at sunspots
Helping NASA scientists understand major flares and life around other starsCredit: NASA/SDO NASA's extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to...
School absences correlate to impaired air quality
Even mildly elevated air pollution associated with increase in absences in Salt Lake CityCredit: University of Utah In Salt Lake...
Nerve cell activity shows how confident we are
Study on decision-making behavior published by the University of BonnCredit: © AG Mormann/Uni Bonn Should I or shouldn't I? The...
The choroid plexus: A conduit for prenatal inflammation?
These tiny fronds of tissue protect the developing brain -- but may also pass on inflammation from the motherCredit: Shipley...
Six uOttawa COVID-19 mental health projects receive $1 million CIHR funding
Credit: University of Ottawa Six University of Ottawa-affiliated projects focusing on COVID-19's impact on mental health have won important funding...
Climate patterns linked in Amazon, North and South America, study shows
A tree-ring chronology developed by U of A researchers established a connection between precipitation in the Amazon and the AmericasCredit:...
Oldest monkey fossils outside of Africa found
Credit: Mauricio Antón Three fossils found in a lignite mine in southeastern Yunan Province, China, are about 6.4 million years...
Scientists suggest global guidelines for sustainable use of non-native trees
A team of international scientists have collaborated to propose a series of global guidelines for the sustainable use of non-native...
RUDN University ecologists developed new models to identify environmental pollution sources
Credit: RUDN Univerisity According to a team of ecologists from RUDN University, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can be used as...
OPH looks to CHEO/uOttawa research to help the community fight against Coronavirus
Ottawa measuring daily picture of COVID-19 activity in the community to help us determine our best collective responseCredit: uOttawa Ottawa...
NASA finds hurricane delta packing heavy rainfall
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA's satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations found that Hurricane Delta was bringing...
Turning a hot spot into a cold spot: Fano-shaped local-field responses probed by a quantum dot
Credit: by Juan Xia, Jianwei Tang, Fanglin Bao, Yongcheng Sun, Maodong Fang, Guanjun Cao, Julian Evans, and Sailing He Optical...
Polarimetric parity-time-symmetric photonic system
Credit: by Lingzhi Li, Yuan Cao, Yanyan Zhi, Jiejun Zhang1, Yuting Zou, Xinhuan Feng, Bai-Ou Guan and Jianping Yao Parity-time-symmetric...
Hubble sees swirls of forming stars
Credit: European Space Agency At around 60 million light-years from Earth, the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy, NGC 1365, is captured...
Spitzer space telescope legacy chronicled in Nature Astronomy
Credit: University of Central Florida To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding of our solar...
The NIH funds a $9.3 million Center for Precision Animal Modeling at UAB
Precision disease modeling involves creation of patient-specific disease models that mimic the molecular character of a condition present in a...
