Army technique enhances robot battlefield operations
Credit: (Photo illustration / U.S. Army) ADELPHI, Md. -- Army researchers developed a technique that allows robots to remain resilient when faced with intermittent communication...
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Solar-powered desalination unit shows great promise
Scientists develop a low-cost, highly efficient technique that uses solar energy to remove salt from seawater, producing safe drinking water.Credit: Chao Chang WASHINGTON, April 27,...
Hepatitis C drugs combined with Remdesivir show strong effectiveness against covid-19
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System A combination of remdesivir, a drug currently approved in the United States for treating COVID-19 patients, and repurposed drugs for...
Horizontal transmission can cause severe and persistent eye inflammation
Credit: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science,TMDU Tokyo, Japan - Human T-cell lymphotropic virus type-1 (HTLV-1) is a retrovirus similar to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)...
Exploiting non-line-of-sight paths for terahertz signals in wireless communications
In a step toward enabling ultrafast wireless data transmission, researchers explore non-line-of-sight path issue for link discovery method using terahertz radiation.Credit: Mittleman Lab, Brown University...
Few young adult men have gotten the HPV vaccine, study finds
But they should: A cancer found in the throat is now the leading cancer caused by HPV -- and 80% of those diagnosed are men.Credit:...
Polymer-based coatings on metallic implants improve bone-implant integration
Polysaccharide and protein-based coatings on metallic implants increase bone tendency to attach on implants, prevent loosening and bacterial invasionCredit: Ahmet Engin Pazarçeviren WASHINGTON, April 27,...
Salk scientists reveal how brain cells in Alzheimer’s go awry, lose their identity
New technique models brain cells in older patients more accurately than ever beforeCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 27, 2021) Despite the prevalence of Alzheimer's, there...
New 2D superconductor forms at higher temperatures than ever before
Credit: (Image by Anand Bhattacharya/Argonne National Laboratory.) New interfacial superconductor has novel properties that raise new fundamental questions and might be useful for quantum information...
Researchers show new holistic approach to genetics and plant breeding
Researchers have discovered new approach to cereal plant breeding that considers the internal calculator of plant seeds that makes them continuously reorganize themselves; the method...
Marine biodiversity: Enormous variety of animal life in the deep sea revealed
Credit: UoC / Hartmut Arndt Ecologists at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology have for the first time demonstrated the enormously high and also...
International research team discovers new two-dimensional material
An international team with researchers from the University of Bayreuth has succeeded for the first time in discovering a previously unknown two-dimensional material by using...
Hepatitis C drugs multiply effect of COVID-19 antiviral Remdesivir
Existing drugs increase efficacy 10-fold in cell studiesCredit: Jenna Leucke/U. of Texas at Austin TROY, N.Y. -- When combined with drugs currently used to treat...
Researchers working to further develop monopile production for offshore wind farms
Credit: Steelwind Nordenham With an output of around ten megawatts, today's wind turbines on the open sea have enormous dimensions. Their gigantic nacelles - with...
Geographies of death: Study maps COVID-19 health disparities in Greater Santiago
Three times higher COVID-19 mortality in low-income areasCredit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- People up to age 40 living in economically depressed...
