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NASA finds heavy rain potential in typhoon Bualoi over Marianas
Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Typhoon Bualoi was lashing the Marianas Islands in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean when NASA's Aqua...
Los Alamos AI model wins flu forecasting challenge
'Dante' beat 23 others in predicting the timing, peak, and short-term intensity of the unfolding 2018-2019 flu season. Enhanced version...
Pushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
Systems 'learn' from novel dataset that captures how pushed objects move, to improve their physical interactions with new objectsCredit: Image...
NASA imagery reveals Neoguri now extra-tropical
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Formerly a typhoon, now an extra-tropical storm, Neoguri...
IQSEC1 gene mutations cause new intellectual disability syndrome
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine It used to take several years or sometimes decades to unequivocally identify the genes that...
New organelle that helps prevent cancer discovered in our cells
Could lead to better treatments, spare patients ones that won't workCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Scientists at the University of...
Q-suite motor assessment tool promising for evaluating Huntington’s disease
Having a test to measure subtle changes in motor ability in young childrenCredit: National Institute of Neurological Disorders Amsterdam, NL,...
Regenstrief and IUPUI researchers use EHRs to identify cancer symptom clusters
Award-winning methodology applicable to symptom clusters in other chronic diseasesCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - Patients with chronic diseases such as...
Svetlana Jitomirskaya wins 2020 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
The award recognizes outstanding publications in the field of mathematical physicsCredit: Svetlana Jitomirskaya WASHINGTON, D.C., October 22, 2019 -- The...
Wistar Institute researcher awarded American Cancer Society research professorship
Credit: The Wistar Institute PRINCETON, N.J. -- PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 22, 2019) -- The American Cancer Society (ACS), the largest...
Theorist takes aim at the makeup of matter
As the Nathan Isgur Postdoctoral Fellow in Nuclear Theory, Nobuo Sato will apply theory to experimental data to ask how...
Scientists discover link between unique brain cells and OCD and anxiety
Mice with dysfunctional microglia exhibited OCD behaviors, and female sex hormones drove symptom severity and added anxietyCredit: Dimitri Traenkner According...
Single mutation dramatically changes structure and function of bacteria’s transporter proteins
Study of E. coli bacteria may provide clues about drug resistanceCredit: Nathaniel Traaseth and Ampon Sae Her (CC BY 4.0)...
Biological material boosts solar cell performance
Credit: David Kubarek, Penn State Next-generation solar cells that mimic photosynthesis with biological material may give new meaning to the...
NASA’s mirror-making whiz, William Zhang, wins Goddard Technology Award
Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA scientist William Zhang wasn't always a mirror-making whiz. In fact, this year's IRAD (Internal Research...
SwRI concept wins NREL energy storage prize
Approach aims to lower costs, construction time for building pumped storage reservoir damsCredit: Southwest Research Institute SAN ANTONIO -- Oct....
Research worth ‘bragging’ about
An MU psychology professor and students provide a possible way to improve dialogue in relationshipsCredit: University of Missouri On a...
Identified a neural mechanism involved in the creation and consolidation of memories
Innovative methodology to study memoryCredit: University of Barcelona The memory of specific episodes is the base of autobiographical memory, but...
Lead isotopes a new tool for tracking coal ash
Tracer will help scientists monitor exposure risks of people near coal ash ponds and landfills or sites where ash is...
Men with breast cancer face high mortality rates: Study
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Men with breast cancer are more likely to die than their female counterparts, across all...
