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Cloud-based electronic system may help first responders better react to natural disasters
Credit: Purdue University/Yuehwern Yih WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Every year natural disasters kill around 90,000 people and affect close to...
Guidelines on caring for ICU patients with COVID-19
The guidelines will be used by frontline clinicians, allied health professionals and policy makers involved in the care of patients...
Tiny fly from Los Angeles has a taste for crushed invasive snails
Credit: Kat Halsey As part of their project BioSCAN - devoted to the exploration of the unknown insect diversity in...
Online NeurekaTM challenge launches to crowdsource EEG solutions for epilepsy
Novela Neurotech and NeuroTechX are teaming up in an effort to accelerate epilepsy researchCredit: NeuroTechX/Novela Neurotech San Francisco, CA -...
Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world
Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/James McKay Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate...
BESSY II: Ultra-fast switching of helicity of circularly polarized light pulses
The ultra-fast change of light helicity is particularly interesting to observe processes in magnetic materials and has long been expected...
Natural light flicker can help prevent detection
Credit: University of Bristol Movement breaks camouflage, making it risky for anything trying to hide. New research, published in the...
Elephant welfare can be assessed using two indicators
Non-experts can help evaluate animal stressCredit: Virpi Lummaa Across the world, animals are kept in captivity for various reasons: in...
Consumption of 3-6 eggs/week lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease and death
Credit: ©Science China Press Eggs have been acknowledged as a good source of high-quality proteins and contain bioactive components beneficial...
Surprising hearing talents in cormorants
Credit: SDU Many aquatic animals like frogs and turtles spend a big part of their lives under water and have...
A sensational discovery: Traces of rainforests in West Antarctica
90-million-year-old forest soil provides unexpected evidence for exceptionally warm climate near the South Pole in the CretaceousCredit: © Alfred-Wegener-Institut/Johann Klages...
Navy to help fund AnalySwift, Purdue technology to improve service life of helicopters
Credit: Allan Wood WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, satellites and cellphone...
NYU researchers rush to capture human interactions with surfaces likely to carry COVID-19
Team from NYU Tandon School of Engineering and School of Global Health will share information gathered from New York City...
Scientists see energy gap modulations in a cuprate superconductor
New measurements from single electron tunneling provide spectroscopic evidence and cinch the case for a 'pair density wave' coexisting with...
University of Innsbruck develops novel corona test
New PCR method works with analytical materials easier to obtainCredit: Sinsoma GmbH As requested by the Austrian Federal Government and...
JONED, a new online free-access journal open in the field of neuroeducation
A new space for neuroscience and educationCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA Building bridges between the science and education communities to contribute...
Inherited mutation can predispose children to a type of brain tumor
Collaboration co-led by researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital discovers a novel predisposition gene in pediatric medulloblastomaCredit: St. Jude...
Smaller than expected phytoplankton may mean less carbon sequestered at sea bottom
Credit: Photo courtesy Luis Bolaños, OSU. CORVALLIS, Ore. - A study that included the first-ever winter sampling of phytoplankton in...
Ocean deoxygenation: A silent driver of coral reef demise?
The world's coral reefs could be facing the additional threat of ocean deoxygenationCredit: David Suggett The existence of coral reefs,...
Plant protection: Communication instead of poison
Sustainable: KIT-coordinated transnational network studies chemical signals between pathogen and plant -- EU funding in the amount of EUR 500,000Credit:...
