Study: Live chat boosts college women’s class participation
Women much more enthusiastically embraced the live chat function during pandemic Zoom classes than men, according to a new UNLV study. Researchers hope the data...
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TI-RADS, algorithm guide diagnoses of pediatric thyroid nodules on ultrasound
Leesburg, VA, October 19, 2022—According to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), ACR TI-RADS and a deep learning algorithm trained...
Three Salk scientists among 2022 Curebound Discovery Grant winners
LA JOLLA (October 19, 2022)—The Salk Institute’s American Cancer Society Professor Tony Hunter, Professor Reuben Shaw, and Assistant Professor Graham McVicker are among 12 inaugural...
Study: new model for the transmission of cultural knowledge
A broad array of cultural practices — from the construction of stone tools to the conventions of religious rituals — are highly stable over long...
Engineers record neurons to pinpoint synaptic links
HOUSTON – (Oct. 19, 2022) – It’s a mystery how human thoughts and dreams emerge from electrical pulses in the brain’s estimated 100 trillion synapses,...
Artificial intelligence helps predict performance of sugarcane in the field
A Brazilian study published in Scientific Reports shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to create efficient models for genomic selection of sugarcane and forage grass varieties and...
City, state and CUNY leadership unveil plans for new Science Park and Research Campus
New York, NY -- New York City and State leadership have partnered with the City University of New York (CUNY) to launch the Science Park...
To be less sedentary, you may need a more active friend
A newly developed mathematical model incorporates the influence of social interactions on community exercise trends, suggesting that interacting with moderately active people could influence sedentary...
Dating profile text perceived as more original may spark more attraction
A new study involving users of online dating sites has revealed a link between the perceived originality of text in dating profiles and better impressions...
Parasite-laden fish choose to use sharks as back scratchers – but bite-sized fish are less likely to take the risk of being eaten!
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275458Credit: Christopher D. H. Thompson, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275458 Article Title: Sharks are the preferred scraping surface for large pelagic fishes:...
Deeper understanding of the icy depths
Scientists have uncovered new details of how ice forming below the ocean surface in Antarctica provides cold dense water that sinks to the seabed in...
In medieval Norway, high-class people had stronger bones
In medieval Norway, high status individuals tended to be taller and to have stronger bones, possibly as a result of a favorable lifestyle, according to...
Brain’s sensitivity to different types of regret may impact mood disorders like depression, Mount Sinai researchers find
Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have learned that the way the brain processes the complex emotion of regret may be...
Changing the face of innovation
When you hear the word entrepreneur, your first thought might be of billionaires sending rockets into space – whether that be Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos...
PPPL physicist wins awards for two fusion projects
Physicist Stefano Munaretto of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has received leadership roles in two DOE three-year awards. Both...
