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Liverpool chemist wins prestigious Eni Energy Frontiers Award
Professor Matt Rosseinsky, from the University’s Department of Chemistry and Materials Innovation Factory, has won the 2023 Eni Energy Frontiers...
New fossil flying reptile ‘Elvis’ takes flight
A new 145-million-year-old pterosaur (extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs) was named today by a team of British,...
Explore the most realistic 3D interactive sharks ever created with Save Our Seas Foundation and UMass Amherst
AMHERST, Mass. – Ground-breaking 3D interactive shark imagery created by a University of Massachusetts Amherst biology professor is powering a...
NIH spent $8.1B for phased clinical trials of drugs approved 2010-19, ~10% of reported industry spending
BENTLEY UNIVERSITYCredit: Bentley University BENTLEY UNIVERSITY The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed $8.1 billion in project funding for...
Ocean animals vacate areas both around and outside deep-sea mining operations
In 2020, Japan performed the first successful test extracting cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt—a...
Rapid fabrication of a polymer lens on a laser chip for miniaturized spectroscopy
There is a growing demand for portable gas sensors, from both environmental and health sciences as well as industry. Resonant...
Linewidth narrowing in self-injection-locked on-chip lasers
On-chip laser diodes based on quantum well (QW) and quantum dot (QD) semiconductor materials have become the primary candidates for...
This eight-armed octopus-like pore detects taste
The neurons in our bodies are dotted with tiny pores that let essential molecules pass in and out of our...
App helps identify autistic children in India – study
Children with autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders in India can be successfully identified by community healthcare workers using a low-cost...
Rensselaer researcher receives grant to study enzymes in deep sea organisms
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Catherine Royer, Constellation Chair Professor of Bioinformatics and Biocomputation at the Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D. Center for...
Researchers’ sweeping discovery shows how kidney cells self-renew
University of Texas at Dallas scientists have discovered a previously unknown “housekeeping” process in kidney cells that ejects unwanted content,...
James Webb Telescope catches glimpse of possible first-ever ‘dark stars’
Stars beam brightly out of the darkness of space thanks to fusion, atoms melding together and releasing energy. But what...
UT Health Science Center San Antonio develops tool that counts brain lesions in seconds
SAN ANTONIO (July 13, 2023) — An artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed at The University of Texas Health Science Center...
Scripps Research receives momentous award from NIH to lead key programs in national All of Us Research Program
LA JOLLA, CA—Scripps Research announced today that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed funding for its Translational Institute...
Astronomers identify the coldest star yet that emits radio waves
Astronomers at the University of Sydney have shown that a small, faint star is the coldest on record to produce...
The 10th World Congress on Targeting Microbiota 2023: Unveiling the Future of Microbiotal Medicine
VENICE, ITALY - Set in the romantic city of Venice from October 17th to 19th, the 10th World Congress on...
Purdue researchers receive $118,000 to develop freeze-drying, meat validation and thermal imaging innovations
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University researchers with patent-pending innovations for the agriculture, medical and autonomous transportation industries have received...
The MemTrax Continuous Recognition Test for advanced cognitive impairment screening
“ MemTrax quickly demonstrates and quantifies the pertinent memory dysfunction of Alzheimer’s disease.”Credit: 2023 Ashford et al. “ MemTrax quickly...
Spinout Delta g raises £1.5m to build gravity gradiometry platform for mapping the underground space
A new University of Birmingham spinout, Delta g, has raised £1.5 million in its pre-seed investment round to fast-track the...
Eyes in the skies confirm the end of trash burning in the Maldives
DURHAM, N.C. – White sand beaches. Crystalline waters. Toxic smoke plumes wafting across a paradise clogged with plastic trash. Credit: Creative...
