FAU lands $1.2 million NSF grant to transform prosthetic hand control
Most people use their hands seamlessly to perform daily tasks and more complex tasks like playing a musical instrument. But for more than 1.6 million...
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Center for One Health Research receives nearly $2 million from NIH to find new ways to combat gonorrhea
COVID-19 and monkeypox grab modern day headlines, but gonorrhea is an ongoing scourge that has covered centuries.Credit: Andrew Mann for Virginia Tech. COVID-19 and monkeypox...
UNIST signs cooperation MoU with AASTU!
UNIST has recently embarked on a new partnership with the Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (AASTU) to help establish Ethiopia’s first graduate degree program...
The brain cells needed for fever
Researchers at Linköping University have identified in mice the cells in the blood vessels of the brain that are necessary for a fever reaction. The...
New research shows how octopuses may have evolved
A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that a type of octopus appears to have evolved independently to...
Seals have a sense of rhythm
Why are we such chatty, musical animals? Evolutionary biologists think that our capacities for speech and music may be linked: only animals that can learn...
Newly achievements and expectations of layered double hydroxides toward efficient, stable, fast oxygen evolution reaction
They published their work on Sep. 7 in Energy Material Advances.Credit: They published their work on Sep. 7 in Energy Material Advances. “With the...
Tree rings offer insight into devastating radiation storms
A University of Queensland study has shed new light on a mysterious, unpredictable and potentially devastating kind of astrophysical event. A team led by Dr Benjamin...
Liquid biopsies can detect which cancer patients may be at higher risk of developing additional blood cancers
Barcelona, Spain: Researchers have found that liquid biopsies, which are increasingly used in the routine care of patients to identify and monitor the progress of...
Word and face recognition can be adequately supported with half a brain, study finds
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 25, 2022 – An unprecedented study of brain plasticity and visual perception found that people who, as children, had undergone surgery removing half...
Lower than normal rainfall linked with a higher chance of food insecurity
Food insecurity is a growing problem in certain parts of the world, especially as climate change affects weather conditions around the globe. New research led...
Why do self-driving cars crash?
Whether they are built by billionaires plagued by social media addictions, or long-standing corporations of the traditional automotive industry, self-driving vehicles are the future of...
Engineering more race-inclusive AI in medicine
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help get crucial medical screening into the hands of people across the world. University of Pittsburgh engineering researcher Jingtong Hu is...
COVID-causing virus in air detected with high-tech bubbles
Scientists have shown that they can detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the air by using a nanotechnology-packed bubble that spills its chemical...
Neuroscientist leads national project on pain’s molecular origins
A University of Texas at Dallas researcher is leading a team of national experts in a new National Institutes of Health multicenter project focused on...
