Chemist Julian West makes C&EN magazine’s ‘Talented 12’ list
HOUSTON – (May 20, 2024) – Rice University chemist Julian West is one of a dozen up-and-coming young scientists featured in Chemical & Engineering News’ (C&EN)...
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Tricking the Brain’s inner GPS: Grid cells responses to the illusion of self-location
Dr. Hyuk-June Moon from the Bionics Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), in collaboration with Prof. Olaf Blanke’s team at...
Poor access to in-home nursing for medically complex children quantified
EMBARGOED UNTIL: 2:15 p.m. PT, Sunday, May 19, 2024Credit: ATS EMBARGOED UNTIL: 2:15 p.m. PT, Sunday, May 19, 2024 Session: Session A96 – Improving...
Extreme heat associated with children’s asthma hospital visits
EMBARGOED UNTIL: 2:15 p.m. PT, May 19, 2024 Credit: ATS EMBARGOED UNTIL: 2:15 p.m. PT, May 19, 2024 Session: A95 – Climate Change and...
World-first trial shows benefits of finding, treating undiagnosed asthma and COPD
Finding and treating people with undiagnosed asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) improved their health and reduced their healthcare visits for respiratory symptoms in...
Insilico Medicine introduces nach0: A one-stop LLM for chemical and biomedical tasks
In a new paper, researchers from clinical stage artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company Insilico Medicine (“Insilico”), in collaboration with NVIDIA, present a new large...
Virginia Tech physicists propose path to faster, more flexible robots
In a May 15 paper released in the journal Physical Review Letters, Virginia Tech physicists revealed a microscopic phenomenon that could greatly improve the performance...
STAR sees a magnetic imprint on deconfined nuclear matter
Scientists have the first direct evidence that the powerful magnetic fields created in off-center collisions of atomic nuclei induce an electric current in “deconfined” nuclear matter. This...
Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses
The COVID-19 pandemic is over, but the virus that caused it is still here, sending thousands of people to the hospital each week and spinning...
Iso-propagation vortices: optical multiplexing for unprecedented information capacity
The future of optical communications just got brighter. In a groundbreaking development reported in Advanced Photonics, researchers from Nanjing University have introduced iso-propagation vortices (IPVs), a novel...
Researchers confirm scale matters in determining vulnerability of freshwater fish to climate changes
The silver chub isn’t considered sensitive to climate change on a national scale, but context matters. For example, if climate change sensitivity is evaluated in...
Furry thieves are running loose in a Maine forest, UMaine research shows
Scattered across the Penobscot Experimental Forest are veritable treasure troves for its denizens, each containing riches beyond comprehension. These caches do not contain gold or...
Modern plant enzyme partners with surprisingly ancient protein
UPTON, N.Y. — Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that a protein responsible for the synthesis of a...
A study by UPF and BCNatal opens the door to designing therapies to improve lung development in growth-restricted fetuses
If during a pregnancy a fetus grows below normal thresholds, at each week of gestation there is an increased risk that some of its organs...
New imaging software improves lung diagnosis for 30% of patients who can’t tolerate contrast dye; has added diagnostic benefits for all patients
Southfield, Mich., May 17, 2024 – For up to 30% of patients who are allergic to medical contrast dye or have a dye restriction because...
