Uniting strengths to expand research
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the Italian Institute of Technology have signed an agreement to expand the scope of their collaboration.Credit: EMBL/IIT EMBL and...
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More sleep or more exercise: the best time trade-offs for children’s health
Credit: Unsplash More sleep could offset children's excess indulgence over the school holidays as new research from the University of South Australia shows that the...
Measuring the Moon’s nano dust is no small matter
Credit: Credit: E. Garboczi/NIST and A. Sharits/AFRL Like a chameleon of the night sky, the Moon often changes its appearance. It might look larger, brighter...
Cognitive neuroscience could pave the way for emotionally intelligent robots
Researchers propose a novel auditory perception based feature for extracting emotions from human speech using neural networksCredit: Masashi Unoki Ishikawa, Japan - Human beings have...
Researchers use AI to detect wrist fractures
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - An automated system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) is effective at detecting a common type...
Improving the QOL for cats with renal disorders using drugs with minimal adverse reactions
Development of a remedy for renal anemia using erythropoietin derived from catsCredit: Kaneka Many cats develop chronic renal disorders as they age. As chronic renal...
Bone collagen of fish shows individual history of migration and feeding habits
Credit: Yoshikazu Kato Collagen is a protein found widely in almost all cells of animals, and scientifically can be used to learn much about an...
Causes of extreme weather and climate events in China during 2020/21
Credit: Chunzai Wang During the summer of 2020, especially June and July, periods of extreme heavy rainfall occurred in China's Yangtze River Valley (YRV). These...
NPS professor, students explore innovative ways to power the Navy
Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Andrew Gannon Imagine a machine that collected water from the air, broke the water down into hydrogen and oxygen, then...
New algorithm makes it easier for computers to solve decision making problems
New approach to solving multiagent decision making problems with an agent-by-agent optimization leads to reduced computational complexityCredit: IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Computer scientists often...
ACM Chuck Thacker Breakthrough Award goes to innovator who transformed web applications
UC Irvine's Michael Franz made just-in-time compilation practical for billions of web users dailyCredit: Markus Hörster/TU Braunschweig ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced...
How behavioral rhythms are fine-tuned in the brain
Researchers led by a team at Kanazawa University report that vasopressin neurons in the brain's circadian rhythm control center are critical for regulating the timing...
Novel imaging method to visualize respiratory activity of 3D tissue models
Credit: Kaoru Hiramoto, et al. Cells breathe, to an extent, exchanging gases, taking in energy sources from the environment and processing it. Now, researchers from...
Spring forest flowers likely key to bumble bee survival, Illinois study finds
Credit: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- For more than a decade, ecologists have been warning of a downward trend in bumble bee...
Ageing impairs critical final egg maturation stage
Women's fertility may decline with age due to impaired RNA levelsCredit: Montserrat Barragan/Clinica Eugin Age may adversely affect women's fertility by impairing levels of RNA...
