Chirped pulse driven cavity soliton dynamics
Researchers led by Prof. Tianye Huang at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China, are interested in the passive Kerr-resonators-based dissipative cavity solitons. The pulsed driving...
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Study enlists friends, family to help sexual assault survivors with recovery
Most services for sexual assault survivors focus on the survivor. A UW Medicine researcher is studying a new program that instead focuses on survivors’ friends,...
Candy-coated pills could prevent pharmaceutical fraud
While most of us were baking sourdough bread and watching “Tiger King” to stay sane during the pandemic shutdown, UC Riverside bioengineering professor William Grover...
Retinal cell map could advance precise therapies for blinding diseases
Researchers have identified distinct differences among the cells comprising a tissue in the retina that is vital to human visual perception. The scientists from the...
Saving the Mekong delta from drowning
Southeast Asia’s most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving the Mekong River Delta requires...
United States, France cooperation advances international weather research
NORMAN, OKLA. – The University of Oklahoma and several research universities in France have signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate cooperation between scientists to...
Clasper appendages discovered in mid-Cambrian trilobite show horseshoe crab-like mating behavior
Fossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal such as their morphology, their environment, and where to place them in the tree of life....
NIH launches clinical trial of Epstein-Barr virus vaccine
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched an early-stage clinical trial to evaluate an...
Self-frequency-conversion nanowire lasers
Nanowire (NW) lasers with the NW simultaneously acting as gain medium and optical cavity are attractive for miniaturized photonic integration systems, which have merits of...
Active phase calorie restriction enhances longevity, UT Southwestern neuroscience study reveals
A new study in mice led by neuroscientists at UT Southwestern’s Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute shows that it’s not just calories that count.Credit: UT Southwestern Medical...
“Digital twins” – an aid to give individual patients the right treatment at the right time
An international team of researchers have developed advanced computer models, or “digital twins”, of diseases, with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment. They used...
‘Stressed’ cells offer clues to eliminating build-up of toxic proteins in dementia
It’s often said that a little stress can be good for you. Now scientists have shown that the same may be true for cells, uncovering...
Intelligent metasurface could revolutionize our lives
The manipulation of electromagnetic waves and information has become central to our daily lives. Intelligent metasurfaces have emerged as smart platforms for controlling the wave-information-matter...
Obesity threatens US military readiness
Philadelphia, May 6, 2022 – Obesity is recognized as a public health crisis with serious medical and economic effects, but a Perspective in the Journal...
Revealing the individual immune cells inside the plaque that causes life-threatening heart attacks
Through single-cell RNA sequencing, a research group has successfully illuminated the characteristics of Myeloid immune cells in coronary plaque, which causes acute coronary syndrome (this...
