Blockchain as ‘TechQuity’: How tech solutions have the power to help the homeless
Credit: Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin AUSTIN, Texas -- For people experiencing homelessness, missing proof of identity can be a...
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200-year old poop shows rural elites in New England had parasitic infections
Study Finds Parasites in Fecal Samples from the 1830s-1840s in Privy on Dartmouth's CampusCredit: Images by Theresa Gildner. In the early 19th century in North...
A new way to make AR/VR glasses
University of Rochester researchers combine freeform optics and a metasurface to avoid 'bug eyes'Credit: (University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw) "Image" is everything in...
European coordination needed to fight science disinformation, academies say
In a new report, ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, examines the potential of technical and policy measures to tackle science...
Tailor-made therapy of multi-resistant tuberculosis
Credit: Research Center Borstel, the Leibniz Lung Center Globally, tuberculosis is the most common bacterial infectious disease leading to death. The pathogen causing tuberculosis, Mycobacterium...
uGMRT reveals for the first time the patchy environment of a rare cosmic explosion
Credit: A. J. Nayana and Poonam Chandra Scientists from the National Centre for radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCRA-TIFR) Pune used...
Landscape study launched to detect liver cancer early in Singapore
Credit: Mole DJ et al. Plos One. 2020;15(12):e0238568 Singapore, 3 May 2021 - A first of its kind cohort study on patients at high risk...
Research with neutrons for better mRNA medicines
Credit: AstraZeneca. First published in Nigel Davies et al.; Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acid, Volume 24, 4 June 2021, Pages 369-384, DOI: 10.1016/j.omtn.2021.03.008 under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0...
Scientists warn: Humanity does not have effective tools to resist the tsunami
This threatens with sudden destruction of coastal cities and numerous human casualtiesCredit: UrFU / Grigory Tkachenko An international team of scientists from 20 countries identified...
Electric vehicle batteries: The older they get, the safer they are
Credit: © Lunghammer - TU Graz As part of the project "SafeBattery", a team from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) has been investigating the...
The neural mechanism of autonomous learning uncovered by researchers at IBEC
The brain can teach artificial intelligence a lesson or twoCredit: Brainx3.com, SPECS lab. Thanks to the so-called deep learning, a subset of artificial intelligence (AI)...
NCCN releases new patient guidelines on anemia and neutropenia
New resource helps patients and caregivers recognize and understand blood cell production deficiencies, to better participate in their care planning; available for free at NCCN.org/patientguidelinesCredit:...
Natural immunity to malaria provides clues to potential therapies
WEHI researchers have identified how natural human antibodies can block malaria parasites from entering red blood cells, potentially indicating how new protective therapies could be...
Nanotechnology offers new hope for bowel cancer patients
Credit: University of South Australia Bowel cancer survival rates could be improved if chemotherapy drugs were delivered via tiny nanoparticles to the diseased organs rather...
As wildfires increase in severity, experts call for coordinated federal response
American Thoracic Society Workshop Report Co-Funded by ATS, NIEHS and EPACredit: ATS (New York, NY) - May 3, 2021 - In advance of a wildfire...
