Study identifies a new potential target for treating vascular disease
Philadelphia, May 2, 2023 – Vascular diseases, including myocardial infarction, stroke, renal failure, and peripheral vascular disease, continue to account for one third of all...
NEWS INDEX
A touch-responsive fabric armband – for flexible keyboards, wearable sketchpads
It's time to roll up your sleeves for the next advance in wearable technology – a fabric armband that’s actually a touch pad. In ACS...
Fossil find in California shakes up the natural history of cycad plants
LAWRENCE — Cycads, a group of gymnosperms which can resemble miniature palm trees (like the popular sago palm houseplant) were long thought to be “living...
Flagship report of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Taking Stock, examines where 5 billion kg of industrial pollutants go every year in North America
Montreal — The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) today released a new report compiling and analyzing data reported by approximately 24,000 industrial facilities...
New AI algorithm boosts COVID-19 mRNA vaccine antibody response by 128 times
A team of researchers from Baidu Research has developed an AI algorithm that can rapidly design highly stable COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sequences that were previously...
Notes from Nature celebrates 10 years of community science
There are more than 1,000 natural history museums around the world, each tasked with studying and preserving a portion of our planet’s natural and cultural...
Toys demonstrate how biological machines move
By connecting small self-propelling toys in a chain, researchers at the UvA Institute of Physics have found the key to studying the movement of microscopic...
SwRI, UTSA researchers develop new method to synthesize antimalarial drug
SAN ANTONIO – May 2, 2023 - Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have developed a method to...
GAME-Net: a graph neural network for fast evaluation of the adsorption energy in heterogeneous catalysis
Tarragona (Spain), May 2nd 2023 – Achieving sustainability goals will require the use of feedstocks such as plastics and biomass instead of oil. Moreover, industries...
Chinese Medical Journal study suggests psilocybin could help treat fear-based and other mental disorders
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition triggered by a terrifying event. Its symptoms include flashbacks, nightmares, and severe anxiety. Most people experience...
PCORI offers up to $452 million through new health research funding opportunities on high-priority topics
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) today began inviting proposals for new studies and implementation projects through nine funding opportunities. These PCORI...
Could wearables capture well-being?
New York, NY (May 2, 2023)—Applying machine learning models, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), to data collected passively from wearable devices can identify a...
Single-molecule valve: a breakthrough in nanoscale control
Scientists dream of using tiny molecules as building blocks to construct things, similar to how we build things with mechanical parts. However, molecules are incredibly...
Fish thought to help reefs have poop that’s deadly to corals
HOUSTON – (May 2, 2023) – Feces from fish that are typically thought to promote healthy reefs can damage and, in some cases, kill corals,...
Do people and monkeys see colors the same way?
New findings in color vision research imply that humans can perceive a greater range of blue tones than monkeys do.Credit: Yeon Jin Kim/University of Washington...
