AGS COVID-19 brief offers roadmap to government action for assisted living facilities
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society In a policy brief published today in its namesake journal (DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16510), the American ...
Polymer membranes could benefit from taking a dip
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory A simple pretreatment step enables membranes to be enhanced using atomic layer deposition, a technique that ...
Oregon State University research wins Marcus Wallenberg Prize
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Richard Waring, professor emeritus in the Oregon State University College of Forestry, is ...
Hey, Alexa, who else is listening right now?
UC to use NSF grant to explore smart speaker securityCredit: UC Voice-activated speakers like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and Google ...
Variation in how side effects are reported clouds drug safety
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center An important goal of early-phase clinical trials is to discover a drug's possible side ...
Superhard candy — scientists cracked the complex crystal structure of molybdenum borides
Credit: Dmitry V. Rybkovskiy, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. In their search for new superhard compounds, researchers carried out a prediction ...
Virus genomes help to explain why a major livestock disease has re-emerged in Europe
Credit: Ciriaco Ligios Livestock diseases like bluetongue virus (BTV) can have devastating economic and health consequences, but their origins can ...
Army converts heat into electricity to power autonomous robots for months
Credit: CCDC Army Research Laboratory photo ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- An energy-efficient generator intended to power private residences could ...
New study finds biases against physically dirty people take root as early as age 5
Biases against the physically unclean extend to the sick, holding implications in the COVID-19 eraCredit: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology ...
Study reveals important flowering plants for city-dwelling honey bees
Credit: Douglas Sponsler, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Trees, shrubs and woody vines are among the top food sources ...
Hubble watches comet ATLAS disintegrate into more than 2 dozen pieces
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI and D. Jewitt (UCLA) These two Hubble Space Telescope images of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken ...
Harnessing psyllid peptides to fight citrus greening disease
BTI, USDA and UW researchers identified 122 peptides that could be used to as insecticides to halt a disease that ...
Hubble captures breakup of comet ATLAS
Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), Q. Ye (University of Maryland) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with ...
Startups develop system that detects fever remotely in people near hospital front desks
AI-based technology developed by a startup supported by FAPESP is in use at Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital, in São Paulo, ...
Gold standard force fields help identify promising peptides to disrupt COVID-19
University of Utah researchers rapidly generate molecular models of compounds relevant for COVID-19Credit: Cheatham Lab Drug discovery is arduous, expensive, ...
Spinal cord gives bio-bots walking rhythm
Credit: Image courtesy Collin Kaufman CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Miniature biological robots are making greater strides than ever, thanks to the ...
Scientists explore the power of radio waves to help control fusion reactions
Credit: Photo and composite by Elle Starkman. A key challenge to capturing and controlling fusion energy on Earth is maintaining ...
Agricultural pickers in US to see unsafely hot workdays double by 2050
Credit: Tigchelaar et al./Environmental Research Letters The global pandemic has put a focus on essential workers, those we rely on ...
Entos Pharmaceuticals partners with EpiVax to develop a pan-coronavirus DNA vaccine
Credit: Michael Wong EDMONTON, Alberta, April 28, 2020 -- Entos Pharmaceuticals (Entos), a healthcare biotechnology company that develops next generation ...
Making transitions from nursing home to hospital safer during COVID-19 outbreak
Advance care planning even more important during pandemicCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted nursing home ...
