Wearable health sensors will help detect disease in livestock
Credit: Biotangents Wearable biosensors are being developed to help monitor the health of livestock, particularly dairy cows, with the aim ...
Using nano-scale spintronics, researchers aim to build novel artificial brain
New research project to develop novel AI hardware; a completely new kind of computer system that mimics how the human ...
Balcan named recipient of ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for machine learning innovations
Foundational contributions to minimally-supervised learning recognizedCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Maria Florina ...
UCF scientists seek novel material to kill COVID-19
Researchers say nanoparticle film would 'catch' and kill virus, better protect healthcare providersCredit: UCF College of Medicine Masks that protect ...
Mutation reduces energy waste in plants
Credit: © Markus Scholz, Uni Halle To this end, the team identified several thousand proteins, determined their respective amounts in ...
Impulse for research on fungi
Credit: (Picture: Ulrich Terpitz / University of Würzburg) Fungi play an important role for mankind. In the soil, they decompose ...
Therapy dogs may help lower emergency clinicians’ stress
Credit: Dr. Kline New research published in Academic Emergency Medicine indicates that for physicians and nurses working evening shifts in ...
Building a bean that resists leafhoppers
Credit: Tim Porch Leafhoppers are tiny insects. They are only about 3 millimeters long, smaller than a grain of rice. ...
Exploring why males are larger than females among mammals
Credit: Marcelo H. Cassini, PhD In most animals, females are larger than males, but in most mammals, males are larger ...
How does habitat fragmentation affect Amazonian birds?
Four decades of research provide some answersCredit: Phil Stouffer The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), located near Manaus, ...
What are the environmental impacts of cancer drugs?
Credit: Christopher J. Malyniuk Chemotherapeutic drugs, also known as antineoplastic agents, that are prescribed to treat a range of cancer ...
Coquí fossil from Puerto Rico takes title of oldest Caribbean frog
Credit: Alberto Lopez Torres GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, ...
The link between virus spillover, wildlife extinction and the environment
The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spilloverCredit: Christine K. Johnson, UC Davis As COVID-19 spreads across ...
It’s now or never: Visual events have 100 milliseconds to hit brain target or go unnoticed
NIH mouse study reveals key details about visual processingCredit: Image credit: Lupeng Wang, Ph.D. and Charles Gerfen, Ph.D. Researchers at ...
River-groundwater hot spot for arsenic
Computer modelling deciphers complex interfaceCredit: Wallis et al Naturally occurring (geogenic) groundwater arsenic contamination is a problem of global significance, ...
Uncovering stimulation’s impact on neurons
Pitt Bioengineer Takashi Kozai will use a $437K NSF CAREER award to advance neural interface design and study how different ...
Stanford researchers show how forest loss leads to spread of disease
Credit: Laura Bloomfield Viruses that jump from animals to people, like the one responsible for COVID-19, will likely become more ...
54.8% of COVID-19 cases imported to Brazil by March 5 came from Italy
In contrast with China and other countries where the disease spread slowly, in Brazil more than 300 people started the ...
3D printing, biology research make the journey back to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Dragon
On April 7, Dragon is scheduled to undock from station, bringing samples, hardware and data from completed investigations back to ...
TU Graz supplies hospitals with 3D-printed medical shields
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz The protection of medical staff is a major priority in the current corona crisis. ...
