New scholarship to reduce barrier for most promising medical students
$1.1 million gift from philanthropist Ann Bedell Hunt establishes Bedell Family Endowed Medical Scholarship at UC San Diego School of ...
Researchers realize synthetic gauge fields in single optomechanical resonator
Credit: CHEN Yuan et al. The research team led by Prof. GUO Guangcan and Dr. DONG Chunhua from the University ...
Replacing what was lost: A novel cell therapy for type I diabetes mellitus
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - Type I Diabetes Mellitus (T1D) is an autoimmune ...
2D materials for conducting hole currents from grain boundaries in perovskite solar cells
Credit: by Peng You, Guanqi Tang, Jiupeng Cao, Dong Shen, Tsz-Wai Ng, Zafer Hawash, Naixiang Wang, Chun-Ki Liu, Wei Lu, ...
UMD helps quantify how climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth
Collaborative research shows more severe slowdowns in warmer regions like Africa and Latin AmericaCredit: Edwin Remsberg, University of Maryland The ...
Skin deep: Aquatic skin adaptations of whales and hippos evolved independently
Hippos and cetaceans are close relatives, but their shared "aquatic" skin traits did not come from a common ancestorCredit: Carl ...
BrainGate: First human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
Credit: Braingate.ord PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are an emerging assistive technology, enabling people with paralysis to type on ...
Gut microbiota in cesarean-born babies catches up
Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg and Malin Arnesson Infants born by cesarean section have a relatively meager array of bacteria ...
Search for strange Skyrmion phenomenon fails but finds stranger magnetic beaded necklace
Physicists on the hunt for a rarely seen magnetic spin texture have discovered another object that bears its hallmarks, hidden ...
Large study identified new genetic link to male infertility
Credit: University of Tartu The findings published in eLife show that men with this unstable subtype of the Y chromosome ...
Titanium dioxide stars in the first IFJ PAN research at the Cracow synchrotron
Credit: Source: IFJ PAN Few compounds are as important to industry and medicine today as titanium dioxide. Despite the variety ...
Low risk of researchers passing coronavirus to North American bats
USGS risk assessment examined likelihood of transmission during winter research seasonCredit: USGS The risk is low that scientists could pass ...
Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation awards $1 million grant to CWRU School o
Credit: Case Western Reserve University The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation--continuing Mt. Sinai Medical Center's century-old tradition of caring for ...
Keeping it fresh: New AI-based strategy can assess the freshness of beef samples
Scientists combine spectroscopy and deep learning in an efficient technique for detecting spoiled meatCredit: Unsplash Although beef is one of ...
Spin-to-charge conversion achieves 95% overall qubit readout fidelity
Credit: ZHANG Qi et al. The team led by Professor DU Jiangfeng and Professor WANG Ya from the Chinese Academy ...
From dinner to sustainable electronics, the surprising versatility of crabs
Researchers from Osaka University report a sustainable nanocarbon material made from crab shells that are suitable for use in photosensing ...
Researchers develop third and final ‘made-to-order’ nanotube synthesis technique
Credit: NINS/IMS The current method of manufacturing carbon nanotubes--in essence rolled up sheets of graphene--is unable to allow complete control ...
3D design leads to first stable and strong self-assembling 1D nanographene wires
Credit: NINS/IMS Nanographene is flexible, yet stronger than steel. With unique physical and electronic properties, the material consists of carbon ...
Impact of COVID-19 ‘Safer at Home’ order on radiology utilization
2021 ARRS Virtual Annual Meeting research finds the COVID-19 'Safer at Home' order resulted in a significant decline in radiology ...
Cohesive circuit protection for wearable electronics
Researchers from Osaka University developed a cellulose nanofiber coating that counters bending damage, retains electrode function underwater, and thus offers ...
