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Virginia Tech scientists see fluid flow as potential key to fight Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Virginia Tech Scientists don't fully understand what causes Alzheimer's disease, but they have a primary suspect. Certain forms of...
Risk scores for predicting short-term outcomes for patients with unexplained syncope
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM Des Plaines, IL - The Canadian Syncope Risk...
Long search finds grain of hope in the glume
Credit: John Innes Centre Researchers have found the elusive genetic element controlling the elongated grains and glumes of a wheat...
Tampons, sanitary napkins could diagnose yeast infections with color-changing threads
Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00806 The yeast Candida albicans can cause itchy, painful urinary tract and vaginal...
Researchers use ‘hole-y’ math and machine learning to study cellular self-assembly
Credit: Wong lab/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The field of mathematical topology is often described in terms of donuts and...
Novel immunotherapy boosts long-term stroke recovery in mice
Credit: Xiaoming Hu/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, May 19, 2021 - Specialized immune cells that accumulate in the brain in the...
Mapping the quantum frontier, one layer at a time
Researchers design new experiments to map and test the mysterious quantum realmCredit: Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer A heart surgeon doesn't...
Envisioning safer cities with AI
Researchers use crowdsourced data, neural networks, and supercomputers to simulate risks to cities and regionsCredit: Chaofeng Wang, SimCenter, UC Berkeley...
Carbohydrate ‘cage’ allows precise drug delivery to the gastrointestinal tract
A GlycoCage technology developed by GlycoNet researchers aims to improve current treatments for inflammatory bowel diseaseCredit: UBC, Michael Smith Laboratories...
NASA’s Webb to study how massive stars’ blasts of radiation influence their environments
Credit: Credits: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Massimo Robberto (STScI, ESA), Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan...
Vegan and omnivorous diets promote equivalent muscle mass gain, study shows
Trials performed by researchers at the University of São Paulo with healthy young adults show that the right level of...
A tale of frozen landscapes is also an urgent call to action
Credit: Jon Ove Hagen The catastrophe Wadham is seeing unfold is the rapid melting and demise of our planet's glaciers....
Alzheimer protein APP regulates learning and social behavior in the healthy brain
Beyond plaques: Heidelberg scientists unravel the natural functions of the APP protein familyCredit: Susanne Klein, Prof. Müller's research group, Heidelberg...
Magnetically propelled cilia power climbing soft robots and microfluidic pumps (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society The rhythmic motions of hair-like cilia move liquids around cells or propel the cells themselves. In...
New study shows flies mutant for schizophrenia-associated genes respond well to anti-psychotics
Credit: University of Bristol Scientists have successfully treated flies displaying behavioural problems linked to newly discovered schizophrenia-associated genes in humans,...
NPS students tackle key challenges of the Mobile CubeSat Network
Credit: (U.S. Navy graphic by the NPS Office of University Communications) Four Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) students, representing the Navy...
CT scans offer new view of Lake Malawi cichlid specimens in Penn State museum
Modern technology aids effort to characterize fish species in huge southern Africa waterCredit: Jay Stauffer Jr., Penn State Computed tomography...
Nickel atoms detected in the cold gas around interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
Credit: ESO/P.Guzik/M.Drahus Unbound nickel atoms and other heavy elements have been observed in very hot cosmic environments, including the atmospheres...
Getting “wind” of the future: Making wind turbines low-maintenance and more resilient
Researchers propose a computationally simple design for the simultaneous detection and real-time resolution of multiple faults in a wind turbine...
World met target for protected area coverage on land, but quality must improve
UNEP/IUCN Protected Planet Report: over 22 million km2 of land, 28 million km2 of ocean protected or conserved since 2010;...
