Study of bacteria in day care settings reveals links with children’s lung health
Milan, Italy: Particular combinations of bacteria found in dust at day care facilities have been linked to wheezing in young children in a study presented...
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Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology researchers reveal the effect of AIN surface pits on GaN remote epitaxy
Remote epitaxy has been gaining attention in the field of semiconductor manufacturing for growing thin films that copy the crystal structure of the template, which...
Crossref acquires Retraction Watch data and opens it for the scientific community
The Center for Scientific Integrity, the organisation behind the Retraction Watch blog and database, and Crossref, the global infrastructure underpinning research communications, both not-for-profits, announced...
Calculating disease risk in individuals with previous disease
Multimorbidity describes the state of having more than one disease. Anthony Webster sought to untangle a puzzle at the heart of multimorbidity: does having had...
A linear path to efficient quantum technologies
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have demonstrated that a key ingredient for many quantum computation and communication schemes can be performed with an efficiency...
Scientists studied optimal multi-impulse linear rendezvous via reinforcement learning
Multi-impulse orbital rendezvous is a classical spacecraft trajectory optimization problem, which has been widely studied for a long time. Numerical optimization methods, deeplearning (DL) methods,...
Groundbreaking research reveals the role of TonEBP in lupus and lupus nephritis, opening new avenues for treatment
A groundbreaking discovery has been made by Professor Hyug Moo Kwon and his research team in the Department of Biological Sciences at UNIST, in collaboration...
NIH grant to fund network of data warehouses for Baton Rouge health research institutions
BATON ROUGE – The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Louisiana Clinical & Translational Science Center, or LA CaTS, a grant of nearly $1.3...
Climate change is reducing global river water quality
A review of almost 1000 studies on the effects of climate change and extreme weather events on rivers around the world has found an overall...
U.S. drug overdose deaths more than quadrupled from 1999 to 2020
The United States is experiencing its highest overall death rates in more than a century, fueled in part by drug overdose mortality. The origins of...
UN plan promises large CO2 emission cuts in construction sector – the most polluting and toughest to decarbonise
Credit: UNEP / Yale CEA Rapid urbanisation worldwide means every five days, the world adds buildings equivalent to the size of Paris, with the built...
A combination of cancer inhibitors shows success in slowing tumor growth
An international team of researchers has demonstrated that a combination of inhibitors may suppress tumor growth and prevent relapse in patients with certain cancers, including...
Nicotine e-cigarettes, prescription drugs and dual nicotine replacement therapy identified as most effective stop-smoking aids
Nicotine e-cigarettes and two prescription medications that curb symptoms of withdrawal are the most effective stop-smoking aids, according to a comprehensive, multinational review by a...
Gotcha! New technology speeds up bacterial testing in food
It is said that there is waste in haste, but researchers from Osaka Metropolitan University have proven that doing things rapidly does not necessarily mean...
Targeted ultrasound can change brain functions for up to an hour after intervention
The targeted use of ultrasound technology can bring about significant changes in brain function that could pave the way towards treatment of conditions such as...
