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Causes of extreme weather and climate events in China during 2020/21
Credit: Chunzai Wang During the summer of 2020, especially June and July, periods of extreme heavy rainfall occurred in China's...
NPS professor, students explore innovative ways to power the Navy
Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Andrew Gannon Imagine a machine that collected water from the air, broke the water down...
New algorithm makes it easier for computers to solve decision making problems
New approach to solving multiagent decision making problems with an agent-by-agent optimization leads to reduced computational complexityCredit: IEEE/CAA Journal of...
ACM Chuck Thacker Breakthrough Award goes to innovator who transformed web applications
UC Irvine's Michael Franz made just-in-time compilation practical for billions of web users dailyCredit: Markus Hörster/TU Braunschweig ACM, the Association...
How behavioral rhythms are fine-tuned in the brain
Researchers led by a team at Kanazawa University report that vasopressin neurons in the brain's circadian rhythm control center are...
Novel imaging method to visualize respiratory activity of 3D tissue models
Credit: Kaoru Hiramoto, et al. Cells breathe, to an extent, exchanging gases, taking in energy sources from the environment and...
Spring forest flowers likely key to bumble bee survival, Illinois study finds
Credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- For more than a decade, ecologists have been warning of a...
Ageing impairs critical final egg maturation stage
Women's fertility may decline with age due to impaired RNA levelsCredit: Montserrat Barragan/Clinica Eugin Age may adversely affect women's fertility...
Many children with cardiomyopathy have a genetic mutation but few are screened
Routine genetic screening for all children with cardiomyopathy could make a powerful difference in outcomes and even survivalCredit: Douglas Levere/University...
NYU Environmental Studies Professor Sonali Shukla McDermid named Carnegie Fellow
Credit: Mathew McDermid New York University's Sonali Shukla McDermid has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, one of 26 selected...
Treating neurological symptoms of CHARGE syndrome
Discovery of a treatment that alleviates some neurological symptoms of a rare genetic disorderCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) CHARGE syndrome is...
Scientists don spacesuits to explore Hawaiian lava tubes as if they were on Mars
Credit: HI-SEAS MUNICH -- Imagine trying to pick up a pebble or scrape microbes off a cave wall in a...
The growing promise of community-based monitoring and citizen science
Credit: Kayla Farmer Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called "citizen science") has exploded in popularity, aided both by...
Drones provide bird’s eye view of how turbulent tidal flows affect seabird foraging habits
Credit: Lilian Lieber, Queen's University Belfast The foraging behaviour of seabirds is dramatically affected by turbulence caused by natural coastal...
WVU receives NSF grant to transition large fungal collection to University of Kansas
Credit: Brian Persinger/WVU For more than 30 years, the world's largest collection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi - the "good" kind...
Lack of educational opportunities influence drug use for rural youth
MU study identifies compounding challenges that limit advancement opportunities for disengaged youth, offers possible solutionsCredit: MU School of Health Professions...
U-M RNA scientists identify many genes involved in neuron development
Credit: Nigel Michki Neurons result from a highly complex and unique series of cell divisions. For example, in fruit flies,...
New edition provides updates on fungicides used to control turfgrass diseases
Credit: APS PRESS A Practical Guide to Turfgrass Fungicides, Second Edition, is a current, comprehensive, and hands-on resource focused specifically...
Droperidol most effective sedation medication for agitation with less sides effects
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM Des Plaines, IL - In a randomized, double-blind...
Researchers identify protein produced after stroke that triggers neurodegeneration
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - April 27, 2021 - Researchers with the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute at...
