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2018 Health of Houston Survey sheds light on residents
Credit: Photo by Maricruz Kwon/UTHealth A snapshot of health conditions revealing the disparities across 38 neighborhood areas in Harris County...
New report deepens understanding of wind-wildlife interactions
Credit: Photo courtesy of Invenergy LLC, NREL. The Ecological Society of America (ESA) announces the publication of a new report,...
Scientists enlist tiny biomagnets for faster drug discovery
A new platform brings together genome editing with magnetic cell sorting to reveal new drug targets for cancer and regenerative...
Nova Southeastern University Researcher urges use of microbes for space colonization
Any permanent human space settlement will require beneficial microbesCredit: Nova Southeastern University FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. - With the recent celebration...
NASA catches Tropical Storm Lorena’s landfall approach
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) As Tropical Storm Lorena was nearing landfall in...
When it comes to robots, reliability may matter more than reasoning
Credit: US Army What does it take for a human to trust a robot? That is what Army researchers are...
Tiny, biocompatible laser could function inside living tissues
Nanolaser has potential to treat neurological disorders or sense disease biomarkersCredit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- Researchers have developed a...
Mummy study: Heart disease was bigger issue for human ancestors than initially thought
Credit: Photo by Maricruz Kwon/UTHealth A new imaging study of the mummified arteries of people who lived thousands of years...
Professor’s eyes are on the prize: A treatment to help others see better
Credit: Courtesy of Mason Engineering When Mason Engineering's Qi Wei sees people with vision troubles, she knows there is more...
Moral distress and moral strength among clinicians in health care systems
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (September 23, 2019) - Nurse burnout impacts both nurses and patients, and significantly influences the retention...
New gene therapy research at Neuroscience 2019
Live-streamed press conference offers breaking researchCredit: Society for Neuroscience Gene therapy shows promise as a way to treat and cure...
Illinois researchers create first three-photon color-entangled W state
Credit: University of Illinois Grainger College of Engineering Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have constructed a quantum-mechanical...
The first in Russia Nature conference: ‘Advances and Applications in Plasma Physics’
The AAPP 2019 conference brought together outstanding researchers in the field of plasma physicsCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University...
Engineering the meniscus
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 23, 2019-Damage to the meniscus is common, but there remains...
Analyzing the impact of guiding patients through advance care options on POLST form
$3.5 million grant awarded to study effectiveness of POLST form facilitationCredit: Regenstrief Institute A team, led by Regenstrief Institute researcher...
For World Rhino Day, UMass Amherst and Australia’s Perth Zoo team create 3D rhino model
Scientists, artists, educators, museums, non-profits worldwide use true-to-life modelsCredit: UMass Amherst/Perth Zoo AMHERST, Mass. - The Digital Life team at...
‘Valley states’ in this 2D material could potentially be used for quantum computing
Physicists manipulate energy valleys in tungsten disulfide, with potential applications in quantum computingCredit: Credit: Douglas Levere / University at Buffalo...
Croc-like carnivores terrorised Triassic dinosaurs in southern Africa 210 million years ago
Rauisuchians fed on vegetarian dinosaurs according to Wits studentCredit: Viktor Radermacher, owns copyright "These ancient fossils provide us with evidence...
New CRISPR class expands genetic engineering toolbox
The new approach opens up nearly 90 percent of CRISPR-Cas systems for use in human cells, including biomedical research and...
Probes shed new light on Alzheimer’s cause
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Sept. 23, 2019) - Rice University researchers have found a way to track the...
