$9 million award from the Department of Defense will fund groundbreaking FutureG research
Lingjia Liu, professor of electrical and computer engineering who is also an inaugural faculty member at the Virginia Tech Innovation ...
World Scientists’ Climate Report highlights perils as Earth enters “uncharted territory”
In a year marked by wildfire, catastrophic flooding, and deadly weather events, an international team of scientists has updated its ...
Normative values of vertical jump (VJ) and sit-and-reach (SR) for Chinese general population.
Muscle fitness is a crucial component of health-related fitness, playing a fundamental role in the maintenance of overall well-being and ...
The true costs of corn
A model examines farmers’ profits and the health and environmental costs of growing corn in the US Midwest, where about ...
Finding the genes that help kingfishers dive without hurting their brains
If you’ve ever belly-flopped into a pool, then you know: water can be surprisingly hard if you hit it at ...
Preventing airborne infection without impeding communication with ions and electric field
A novel device developed by researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and Chiba University in ...
How to slow the spread of deadly ‘superbugs’
Harnessing new advances in genomic surveillance technology could help detect the rise of deadly ‘superbugs’ and slow their evolution and ...
LIGO surpasses the quantum limit
In 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, made history when it made the first direct detection of gravitational ...
$3.6 million NIH award funds research to treat painful diabetic neuropathy
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A $3.6 million award from the National Institutes of Health will allow neurosurgical, neurology and neuroscience researchers ...
Researchers capture first images of a radio ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have captured the Oct. 14 solar eclipse in ...
University of Montana leads $12.3 million contract to advance TB vaccine
MISSOULA – The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a $12.3 million contract to the University of Montana to develop ...
Breastfeeding in the setting of substance use
The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) has released new literature-based recommendations related to breastfeeding in the setting of substance use ...
Genomic stability: A double-edged sword for sharks
Sharks have been populating the oceans for about 400 to 500 million years. While our planet and many of its ...
RCSI and Irish Blood Transfusion Service partnership to boost blood products for patients
Monday, 23 October 2023: Researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) ...
Mummified mice discovered atop sky-high Andean volcanoes
They were the summits of 20,000-foot volcanoes. Amid the driest desert on Earth. Where temperatures never breached freezing, where less ...
Interdisciplinary team receives $5 million grant to explore COVID-19 virus ecology at the human-animal interface
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Virginia Tech disease ecologists wondered if the virus was having the same effect ...
An antidote for deadly mushrooms? (video)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2023 — Almost all mushroom-related fatalities worldwide are caused by a single group of molecules, cyclopeptides, which ...
Mouse mummies point to mammalian life in “Mars-like” Andes
The dry, wind-swept summits of volcanoes in the Puna de Atacama of Chile and Argentina are the closest thing on ...
Scientists develop ‘pseudo cell’ formulation for vitreoretinal disease therapy
Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beijing Chaoyang Hospital have developed ...
Plants transformed into detectors of dangerous chemicals
What if your house plant could tell you your water isn’t safe? Scientists are closer to realizing this vision, having ...
