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New study of bats could provide clues to protection against coronaviruses
Credit: Jon Flanders STONY BROOK, NY, June 15, 2020 - Some bat species seem to carry coronaviruses but rarely be...
COVID-19 pandemic could decimate outdoor environmental, science education programs
11 million children at risk of losing access to educational and health benefits of outdoor educationCredit: UC Berkeley photo courtesy...
Rochester researchers unlock clues to a dramatic chapter of Earth’s geological history
Credit: Akshay Mehra / Princeton Grinder Lab photo Imagine Earth completely covered in ice. While it's hard to picture all...
Cell wall research reveals possibility of simple and sustainable method to protect crops
Credit: Antonio Molina While crop diseases have devastating consequences on agriculture, causing losses of up to 30% in some crops,...
In virtual presentation, geriatrics research addresses key concern: medications
Credit: (C) 2020, American Geriatrics Society New insights on a host of factors impacting medication use for older adults will...
NASA follows Tropical Storm Nuri’s path
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview An animation of four days of imagery from NASA's Terra satellite showed the progression and landfall...
New technical approach can enhance diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension
Molecular analysis may facilitate targeted treatment by differentiating underlying conditions affecting pulmonary arteries and veins, report scientists in The American...
MIT, NIST create first room-temp ‘magnon switch’ with industrially useful properties
Build approach could lead to entirely new and more efficient logic switches for computer chips.Credit: N. Hanacek / NIST Scientists...
As food insecurity continues to plague New Yorkers, impact on children is worrisome
Credit: CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy One in four households with children have reported a child...
Neurons can shift how they process information about motion
Credit: Getty Images Our brains use various reference frames--also known as coordinate systems--to represent the motion of objects in a...
Clearer understanding of disordered protein could aid ALS, Alzheimer’s treatment search
NIH awards $3.3 million grant to Lehigh, Brown university researchers studying atomistic structure and mechanisms of TDP-43, which has been...
The many lifetimes of plastics
Infographics strive to give us a sense of how long plastic goods will last in the environment but is this...
Survey: In Vermont, pandemic’s impact falling disproportionately on lower income groups
Credit: Glenn Russell High percentages of Vermonters agree with the social distancing measures put in place by the state in...
New UNLV Center advances global fight against Alzheimer’s
The Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience will advance research and the science of treatment for Alzheimer's and other neurological disordersCredit:...
COVID-19 vaccine to be tested in UIC clinical trial
UIC is expected to be the only site in Chicago to launch phase 3 clinical trialCredit: UIC/Jenny Fontaine The University...
Excitons form superfluid in certain 2D combos
Rice University researchers find 'paradox' in ground-state bilayersCredit: Yakobson Research Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (June 15, 2020) - Mixing and...
Tuberculosis spread from animals to humans may be greater than previously thought
Credit: Vivek Kapur, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The number of human tuberculosis (TB) cases that are due to...
Building a circular chemical economy
Pitt's James McKone selected as a 2020 Beckman Young Investigator for a project that recycles carbon dioxide back into useful...
Electronic health information exchange improves public health disease reporting
Study shows prepopulating forms increases reporting rates for notifiable conditionsCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS -- Disease tracking is an important area...
CU Cancer Center researcher working on early cancer detection named Pew-Stewart Scholar
Dr. Ramachandran is looking to improve methods for early cancer detection using cell-free DNA.Credit: CU Cancer Center University of Colorado...
