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Tool helps clear biases from computer vision
Credit: Princeton Visual AI Lab Researchers at Princeton University have developed a tool that flags potential biases in sets of...
Vaccine opposition online uniting around ‘civil liberties’ argument
Growing 'freedom of choice' position and increase in state-level Facebook pages could impact vaccine-related legislation, researchers sayCredit: Valerie Morgan/UMD WASHINGTON...
Caltech researcher unveils sensor that rapidly detects COVID-19 infection
Credit: Caltech One feature of the COVID-19 virus that makes it so difficult to contain is that it can be...
Tobacco regulatory science researcher earns $1.3 million grant to study role of menthol
Credit: OU Medicine OKLAHOMA CITY -- In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration banned numerous cigarette flavors, from chocolate to...
15-year trend persists in disparate insulin pump use in children
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (October 1, 2020) - Insulin pumps are widely used in the management of type 1 diabetes...
Researchers hear more crickets and katydids ‘singing in the suburbs’
Credit: D.J. McNeil, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract...
Black lives also matter in cancer care
It is not biology, but access to health care that is causing Black Non-Hispanic patients with squamous cell cancer of...
Venom glands similar to those of snakes are found for first time in amphibians
Brazilian researchers discover that caecilians, limbless amphibians resembling worms or snakes that emerged some 150 million years before the latter,...
USask water scientist honored with prestigious international lifetime achievement award
Credit: Steve Anderson SASKATOON - University of Saskatchewan (USask) hydrologist Jay Famiglietti has been awarded the 2020 Hydrologic Sciences Award...
Decreasing treatment delays for head and neck cancer patients in South Carolina
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers identify obstacles that prevent patients from receiving radiation treatment in a timely mannerCredit: Photo by...
Conservation planning in Amazon should prioritize aquatic biodiversity, study concludes
Simulations using field data suggest focusing on the protection of species that live in rivers and lakes can be more...
Ice Age manatees may have called Texas home
Credit: Robert Bonde / U.S. Geological Survey. Manatees don't live year-round in Texas, but these gentle, slow-moving sea cows are...
Promising COVID-19 rapid test technology enters phase 1 of NIH challenge
Highly competitive NIH RADx program selects Rover Diagnostics and biomedical engineer Sam Sia to refine and validate their low-cost, ultrafast...
RIT Professor Scott Franklin named American Physical Society Fellow
Franklin elected upon recommendation of the APS forum on educationCredit: RIT Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Scott Franklin has been...
Chemical innovation stabilizes best-performing perovskite formulation
Credit: Nripan Mathews NTU, Singapore Perovskites are a class of materials made up of organic materials bound to a metal....
Study reveals element in blood is part of human–and hibernating squirrel–stress response
The element iodide's ability to dampen the harm of stress-induced inflammation points to potential uses in treating traumatic injuries and...
FDA grants Fast Track designation to Calibr’s ‘switchable’ CAR-T cell cancer therapy
Phase 1 clinical trial is now enrolling patients with blood cancers.Credit: Scripps Research/Calibr LA JOLLA, CA--The U.S. Food and Drug...
Using machine learning to predict pediatric brain injury
Neural network analyzes 1.4 million data points to investigate which babies and children are most likely to get a brain...
Pattern in whale songs predicts migration
Credit: Jeremy Goldbogen The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth. It's also among the loudest. "Sound is a...
Scientists repeat century-old study to reveal evidence of evolutionary rescue in the wild
Credit: Katharine Clayton, University of Plymouth A tiny flatworm found commonly on the coasts of western Europe and North America...
