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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...

Psilocybin helps mice overcome fear conditioning for short- and long-term.

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...

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research institute

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...

Revolutionary nanovalve enables active control of single-molecule flows

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,...

Cone photoreceptors in marmoset foveal retina

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...

Screenshot of the interactive 3D model with the Old Man of the Mountain back on Cannon Cliff.

Interactive 3D model recreates Old Man of the Mountain

Twenty years after the Old Man of the Mountain collapsed, audiences around the world will now be able to explore the iconic symbol of New...

Suicide rates vs. psychiatrist accessibility at the county level

Columbia University study finds that improved access to mental health care is associated with reductions in suicide risk

Amid historically high suicide rates and mental health care provider shortages, new research from Incite @ Columbia University suggests that interventions to alleviate mental health...

Coal trains increase air pollution in San Francisco bay area

Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution to urban areas, more so than other freight or passenger...

A chronic wound model to investigate skin cellular senescence