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Rice U. scientists slash computations for deep learning
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University computer scientists have adapted a widely used technique for rapid data lookup to slash...
RIT scientists measure black hole’s tilt and spin for clues to how massive stars die
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers continue to make significant contributions to gravitational wave astronomy, with the third detection of gravitational...
Flying metal detectors? Navy tests new unmanned mine-detection system
Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released) ARLINGTON, Va.--During a recent technology demonstration at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton,...
Muon magnet’s moment has arrived
Credit: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab What do you get when you revive a beautiful 20-year-old physics machine, carefully transport it 3,200 miles...
Common class of chemicals cause cancer by breaking down DNA repair mechanisms
A common class of chemicals found everywhere from car exhausts, smoke, building materials and furniture to cosmetics and shampoos could...
A protein that stem cells require could be a target in killing breast cancer cells
Credit: Dos Santos Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - For years, cancer experts have realized that cancerous cells behave...
Combined optical and molecular imaging could guide breast-conserving surgery
Credit: A. D. Purushotham, MD, King's College London, UK RESTON, Va. - Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) is the primary treatment for...
Deep brain stimulation without implants
Credit: Nir Grossman, Ph.D., Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah, Ph.D., and Andrii Rudenko, Ph.D. MIT researchers have developed a method that excites...
A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Delivering an electrical current to a part of the brain involved in movement control has proven successful...
Researchers uncover clues about how HIV virus mutates
SEATTLE - June 1, 2017 - A new study published in Cell Host & Microbe led by researchers at Fred...
NASA sees Tropical Depression 2E moving over Mexican state of Oaxaca
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed Tropical Depression 2E in infrared, visible and microwave...
LIGO detects gravitational waves for third time
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating...
Third gravitational wave detection offers new insight into black holes
Credit: LSC/OzGrav An international team of researchers has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time,...
Gravitational waves detected a third time
Credit: Image Credit: Numerical-relativistic Simulation: S. Ossokine, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) and the Simulating eXtreme Spacetime...
Ramin Golestanian awarded the EPJE Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Lecture Prize for 2017
The European Physical Journal E - Soft Matter and Biological Physics (EPJE) has awarded Iranian physicist Ramin Golestanian the 2017...
NASA to launch first-ever neutron-star mission
Credit: Credits: NASA Multi-Purpose NICER Also to Demonstrate Pulsar-Based Navigation Nearly 50 years after British astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell discovered the...
Who has better mental health: Public or private college students?
Using information gleaned from social media, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a mental health index for...
UNH research finds seacoast roads under new threat from rising sea level
Credit: Rebecca Zeiber/N.H. Sea Grant DURHAM, N.H. - Research out of the University of New Hampshire has found that some...
‘Expert in a suitcase’ cuts power bills 10 percent in small commercial buildings
Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash./BERKELEY, Calif. - The knowledge and expertise of a seasoned energy efficiency professional has...
Syracuse Alumnus instrumental in LIGO’s third detection of gravitational waves
An alumnus of the College of Arts and Sciences has been instrumental in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)'s third...
