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Flying through wildfire smoke plumes could improve smoke forecasts
Credit: Brett Palm/University of Washington Wildfires burning in the West affect not only the areas burned, but the wider regions...
Just like us – Neanderthal children grew and were weaned similar to us
Neanderthals introduced solid food in their children's diet at around 5-6 months of ageCredit: ERC project SUCCESS, University of Bologna,...
Resurrecting war plan blue: NPS workshop re-examines US war preparedness
Credit: Courtesy of the Warfare Innovation Continuum The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) recently concluded an intense concept generation workshop to...
Scientist studies the role of a muscle protein in skeletal muscle disorders
NIAMS grant supports the work of a University of Cincinnati researcherCredit: Photo by Colleen Kelley/UC Creative + Brand. A University...
New cause of COVID-19 blood clots identified
Credit: Stephanie King/ Michigan Medicine Blood clots continue to wreak havoc for patients with severe COVID-19 infection, and a new...
New remote sensing technique could bring key planetary mineral into focus
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Planetary scientists from Brown University have developed a new remote sensing method for...
Vitamin D levels during pregnancy linked with child IQ
Study shows disparities among black womenCredit: Seattle Children's Vitamin D is a critical nutrient and has many important functions in...
Microfluidics helps MTU engineers watch viral infection in real time
Credit: Phil Mcleod/Michigan Tech Get your popcorn. Engineers and virologists have a new way to watch viral infection go down....
Tunable THz radiation from 3D topological insulator
Bismuth telluride can efficiently radiate linearly and circularly polarized terahertz waves, with adjustable chirality and polarizationCredit: Haihui Zhao et al.,...
Excessive alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic
McLean Hospital experts offer insights on how to address this public health crisisCredit: McLean Hospital Alcohol consumption is a common...
New insight into how brain neurons influence choices
Effort could aid study of addiction, eating disorders, other neuropsychiatric conditions that involve faulty decision-makingCredit: Mike Worful When you are...
Immunotherapy side effect could be a positive sign for kidney cancer patients
Patients who developed acute interstitial nephritis, an autoimmune reaction, respond to immune checkpoint inhibitor drugsCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS...
Printing plastic webs to protect the cellphone screens of the future
A spider web-inspired solution made possible using 3D printingCredit: Shibo Zou Follow the unbreakable bouncing phone! A Polytechnique Montréal team...
To predict how crops cope with changing climate, 30 years of experiments simulate future
Credit: University of Illinois Five years ago, the United Nations committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger...
Malaria test as simple as a bandage
Microneedle-based diagnostic a new platform for many diseases, blood draw not requiredCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 2, 2020)...
New study finds earliest evidence for mammal social behavior
Credit: Misaki Ouchida A new study led by paleontologists at the University of Washington and its Burke Museum of Natural...
Analyzing biological and chemical damage on 20th-century construction materials
The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has used spectroscopy to explore how the environment impacts on the degradation of new...
What digital revolution? Hundreds of millions of farmers still cannot get online
In the first assessment of its kind, researchers found that small farmers across the globe have woefully low access to...
A versatile photodetector assisted by photovoltaic and bolometric effects
Credit: by Wei Jiang, Tan Zheng, Binmin Wu, Hanxue Jiao, Xudong Wang, Yan Chen, Xiaoyu Zhang, Meng Peng, Hailu Wang,...
Cockroaches and lizards inspire new robot developed by Ben-Gurion University researcher
Credit: credit: Ben-Gurion University BEER-SHEVA, Israel...November 2, 2020 - A new high-speed amphibious robot inspired by the movements of cockroaches...
