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UMass Amherst engineers boost edge AI efficiency by redesigning algorithms and hardware
Artificial intelligence is moving off the cloud and onto the devices people use every day, but that shift comes with...
Daily Sugary Drink Consumption Linked to Higher Stomach Cancer Risk
A daily sugar-sweetened beverage may be doing more than adding calories to the diet: it may also be linked to...
Labrador Sea Helps Supply Oxygen Supporting Life in the Deep North Atlantic
ITHACA, N.Y. — A region of the North Atlantic often treated as a supporting player in the ocean’s vast circulation...
Scientists discover brain mechanism that switches off chronic pain
At the base of the brain, a small but powerful cluster of nerve cells may hold the key to developing...
Scientists Develop Programmable Method to Rearrange Carbon–Nitrogen Bonds in Amines
Tertiary amines are among the most common structural features in biologically active molecules, appearing in medicines, natural products and chemical...
Informed Dissent: An Underused Tool in Neonatal Intensive Care
In the neonatal intensive care unit, some of the most consequential medical decisions unfold in conversations where parents do not...
Sandia Conducts Advanced Test of Secure Transportation Vehicle
A Nuclear Transporter Just Survived Its Final Full-Scale Crash Test A semitrailer carrying mock nuclear weapons has been deliberately hurled...
Pilots, flight attendants face higher radiation-linked cancer death risks than other workers
A new study of nearly 13 million U.S. death certificates has identified flight attendants and pilots as the occupations with...
From Google to ChatGPT: How Students Now Search for Knowledge
A Quiet Revolution in Physics Learning: Students Are Moving from Google to Generative AI Students across the world appear to...
Trial finds chilled platelets safely expand lifesaving supplies for bleeding patients
University of Pittsburgh physician-scientists have reported results from an adaptive clinical trial suggesting that refrigerated platelets can remain effective for...
Grasses, Not Just Flowers, Also Help Support Pollinators
Bees may be finding an overlooked source of protein in one of the most ordinary features of the Southeastern landscape:...
Scientists Reveal Pyridine Rearrangement Through Nitrogen Transposition
Pyridine is one of chemistry’s most familiar molecular frameworks, yet moving a substituent from one position on its ring to...
Quinone-shuttling filaments boost energy production in Gram-positive Bacillota
A new study has revealed that some Gram-positive bacteria may overcome one of the fundamental limitations of their cell architecture...
Reusable brain architecture enables flexible cognition in mice and artificial recurrent networks
A new study suggests that the brain may build complex behavior in much the same way engineers build sophisticated machines:...
Protein-Foldamer Building Blocks Enable Self-Assembling Hybrid Architectures
A new molecular design strategy is bringing two traditionally separate worlds of chemistry together: proteins, nature’s highly evolved molecular machines,...
EU Cement Decarbonization Faces Technological and Policy Uncertainty
Europe’s cement industry is facing a decarbonization challenge that cannot be solved by switching fuels alone. A new study by...
New Jersey Neonatal Collaborative Reveals Growth Disparities Across Intensive Care Units
Premature infants are born before the final weeks of pregnancy, a period when the body normally undergoes rapid and highly...
Global Cancer Genomics Enabled by Centralized Processing of Frozen Tumor Tissues
Cancer researchers have unveiled a standardized pathology and molecular workflow designed to solve one of the most difficult problems in...
Miniature Soft Robot Actively Regulates Blood Flow Through Blocked Vessels
Blood clots and narrowed blood vessels create a difficult engineering problem for modern medicine. Even when a treatment reaches the...
Engineered macrophages programmed to target bacteria combat infections in immunosuppressed patients
Severe bacterial infections can overwhelm the immune system even when effective antibiotics are available. In advanced disease, macrophages—the immune cells...