Ayanna Howard named ACM Athena Lecturer
Ohio State Dean recognized for work in robotics, AI and broadening participationCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Ayanna...
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Research team investigates causes of tuberous sclerosis
Mutations can disrupt protein binding through a "burr effect" thus interfering with the regulation of cell growthCredit: Kümmel team/Oeckinghaus team Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) affects...
NUS scientists create a new type of intelligent material
Known as "two-dimensional electrolytes", these smart materials could potentially be used in many things from drug delivery to energy storageCredit: National University of Singapore Intelligent...
Scientists observe rapid ozone fluctuations over the Antarctic polar vortex edge area
Credit: ZHOU Shu The polar vortex is a large area of upper-atmosphere cyclonic air circulation surrounding both poles. It is bounded by the polar jet...
UNIST signs MoU with Aramco Korea and MIDAM to offer coding programs to lower-income students
Credit: UNIST On April 28, UNIST has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Aramco Asia Korea Ltd., a fully-owned subsidiary of Saudi oil giant...
LAMOST helps Gaia achieve millimagnitude photometry precision
Credit: NIU Zexi The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has helped Gaia achieve millimagnitude (mmag) precision in photometry, according to a study...
On the road to smart cities: Where smart vehicles stand and where they’re going
Researchers explore the past, present, and future of smart vehicles and what their integration with smart cities would takeCredit: IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Central...
Polypharmakos and CABI to develop new antimicrobial products from CABI Culture Collection
Polypharmakos Limited, a spin-out company from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and University of Cambridge, and international not-for-profit organisation CABI have signed a research collaboration...
An enzyme system for the hydrogen industry
Platinum-free biocatalyst for fuel cells and water electrolysisCredit: Dr. James Birrell / MPI CEC An enzyme could make a dream come true for the energy...
New method for producing synthetic DNA
Chemically synthesized short DNA sequences are extremely important ingredients with countless uses like in detecting COVID-19. Researchers from Aarhus University (DK) develop new efficient way...
Computer designs magnonic devices
Credit: © Chloe Kim, Time Illustration Studio The field of magnonics offers a new type of low-power information processing, in which magnons, the quanta of...
Untangling the brain: new research offers hope for Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Shireen Dooling for the Biodesign Institute at ASU Since the discovery of Alzheimer's disease over a century ago, two hallmarks of the devastating illness...
Scaling down Ionic Transistors to the ultimate limit
Credit: Yahui Xue The human brain is a vast network of billions of biological cells called Neurons which fires electrical signals that process information, resulting...
Rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test delivers results within 4 minutes with 90 percent accuracy
Low-cost biosensor test developed by Penn Medicine could extend reliable COVID-19 testing to remote and disadvantaged areasCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA--A low-cost, rapid diagnostic test for...
Physicists extract proton mass radius from experimental data
Credit: KOU Wei Researchers have recently extracted the proton mass radius from the experimental data. A research group at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP)...
