Harnessing AI to search for new materials with exotic properties
CAREER Award to support research that will accelerate materials discoveryCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- In the periodic table of elements, there are 118...
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Fire operations-prescribed burning combo reduces wildfire severity up to 72%
Credit: A.E. Weislander, U.S. Forest Service / Alan H. Taylor, Penn State Firefighters battling wildfires in the western United States use a variety of suppression...
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate receives ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
Dissertation makes foundational contributions to security of cyber-physical systemsCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Chuchu Fan receives...
Virtual schooling exposes digital challenges for Black families, MU study finds
Credit: MU School of Health Professions COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A new study from the University of Missouri found the unanticipated transitions to virtual schooling due...
Male beetles’ spiny genitalia both harmful and beneficial to females
Credit: Julian Baur Male seed beetles with genital structures that injure females may have greater reproductive success. As new research from Uppsala University shows, females...
Scientists identify new gut-liver drug recycling process
Implications for developing treatments for intestinal diseasesCredit: University of Houston A team of University of Houston pharmaceutical researchers is reporting a newly recognized process of...
Detecting wildlife illness and death with new early alert system
Network of wildlife rehabilitation organizations helps track emerging threatsCredit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis From domoic acid poisoning in seabirds to canine distemper in raccoons, wildlife face...
The hidden culprit killing lithium-metal batteries from the inside
First-of-their-kind snapshots reveal byproduct crippling powerful, experimental cellsCredit: Katie Jungjohann, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- For decades, scientists have tried to make reliable lithium-metal...
Trust me, I’m a chatbot
Göttingen University researchers investigate effect of non-human conversation partners in customer servicesCredit: Mozafari More and more companies are using chatbots in customer services. Due to...
Floating into summer with more buoyant, liquid-proof life jackets, swimsuits (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society Summertime is here, and that often means long, lazy days at the beach, water skiing and swimming. Life jackets and swimsuits...
Scientists created several samples of glasses for protection against nuclear radiation
Bismuth borate glasses were shown outperformance while compared with the commercial onesCredit: Image: UrFU / Anastasia Farafontova. An international research team, including physics from Russia,...
Seven degrees from one trillion species of microbes
Global Microbiome Transition Network hints at origins and evolution paths of microbiomesCredit: LIU Yang and JING Gongchao The Earth contains about one trillion species of...
Oregon State researchers begin to unravel the mysteries of kombucha fermentation
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University scientists are beginning to unravel the key microorganisms that contribute to the fermentation of kombucha,...
A new sensitive tool for the efficient quantification of plant disease susceptibility
Credit: APS While several biology techniques have undergone significant technical advances that have allowed their high-throughput implementation, assessing the resistance levels of plant varieties to...
How climate change and fires are shaping the forests of the future
Tracking future forest fires with AICredit: R. Seidl / TUM Forest fires are already a global threat. "But considering how climate change is progressing, we...
