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 ...
A rich marine algal ecosystem 600 million years earlier than previously thought
Biomarker evidence from fossilised algae remainsCredit: © Don E. Canfield/University of Southern Denmark The first photosynthetic oxygen-producing organisms on Earth ...
New tech builds ultralow-loss integrated photonic circuits
Credit: Jijun He, Junqiu Liu (EPFL) Encoding information into light, and transmitting it through optical fibers lies at the core ...
A new treatment for rare muscular disease
UC researchers present findings that could give patients with Pompe disease a better quality of lifeCredit: University of Cincinnati Rare ...
Triangular-shaped spikes key to coronavirus transmission, finds new study
Credit: This image appeared in the research paper published in Physics of Fluids. COVID-19 needs no introduction. Last year, the ...
Thirdhand smoke exposure linked to fabric type, heat, and humidity
UC Riverside-led team developed simple, rapid method to assess contaminants in household fabricsCredit: University Communications, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- ...
Measuring neutron star squeezability
NICER collaboration, NASA astronaut reveal size of most massive neutron star, highlight Space Station scienceCredit: NASA / Walt Feimer A ...
Medically savvy smartphone imaging systems
Development of smartphone-based imaging systems for medicine and healthcare can be optimized by newly published guidelines for holistic assessmentCredit: Hunt ...
AI pinpoints local pollution hotspots using satellite images
Technique could help find sources of heavy air pollution and allow researchers to better study its effects on human health ...
From smoky skies to a green horizon: Scientists convert fire-risk wood waste into biofuel
A simplified new process transforms wood waste from agriculture and forest management into ethanolCredit: Berkeley Lab Reliance on petroleum fuels ...
Southeast Regional Sun Grant Center announces grant recipients
Supporting innovation in sustainable, bio-derived productsCredit: Image courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The Southeast Regional Sun Grant Center at the ...
