Using everyday WiFi to help robots see and navigate better indoors
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a low cost, low power technology to help robots accurately map their way indoors, even...
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Bird flu is driven by ecologically diverse species, with wild ducks, gulls, geese, and poultry playing a role in global spread
Article URL: http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010062 Credit: Wendy Puryear, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010062 Article Title: Ecological divergence of wild birds drives avian influenza spillover and global spread...
Avian influenza: How it’s spreading and what to know about this outbreak
When it comes to avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, all birds are not created equal. Credit: Alonso Nichols/Tufts University When it comes to...
Genetic predictability steadily erodes during evolution, new study shows
A critical goal in genetics and evolution is predicting the effects of mutations that may happen in the future and inferring the effects of those...
Some people fared better than others during COVID-19 pandemic due to genetics
Everyone has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new study by Lude Franke and colleagues of the University of Groningen, Netherlands finds that...
Genetic risk scores help predict type 2 diabetes in people of south Asian origin, study finds
Combining a genetic risk score with a clinical risk score improved the prediction of type 2 diabetes in British Pakistani and British Bangladeshi individuals, especially...
Discovery of ‘ghost’ fossils reveals plankton resilience to past global warming events
An international team of scientists from UCL (University College London), the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum (London) and the University of Florence...
Repurposed antibiotic may be an effective therapeutic in COVID-19 infected mice
Repurposed drugs may have a speedier path to clinical use because they have already been shown to be safe in people. A study publishing May...
Paleontologists have discovered the jaws of a rare bear in Taurida Cave
A group of paleontologists, included researchers from the Ural Federal University (UrFU), discovered the jaws of an Etruscan bear from the early Pleistocene period (2–1.5...
Male pheromones improve health of females’ eggs
Male pheromones just might be the fountain of youth for aging female animals’ eggs, according to a new Northwestern University study.Credit: Ilya Ruvinsky/Northwestern University Male...
A gene-targeted approach may help prevent or recover neonatal brain injuries
The findings of a new pre-clinical study published in The Journal of Neuroscience are helping pave the way toward better understanding, prevention and recovery of...
Research confirms eastern Wyoming Paleoindian site as Americas’ oldest mine
Archaeological excavations led by Wyoming’s state archaeologist and involving University of Wyoming researchers have confirmed that an ancient mine in eastern Wyoming was used by...
Fly researchers find another layer to the code of life
DURHAM, N.C. -- A new examination of the way different tissues read information from genes has discovered that the brain and testes appear to be...
A Möbius band constructed solely by carbon atoms
Obtaining structurally uniform nanocarbons—ideally as single molecules—is a great challenge in the field of nanocarbon science in order to properly relate structure and function. Thus,...
Possible discovery of mechanism behind mysterious COVID-19 symptoms
In patients with serious and long-term COVID-19, disturbed blood coagulation has often been observed. Now, researchers at Linköping University (LiU), Sweden, have discovered that the...
