Manure improves soil and microbe community
Credit: Lindsey Slaughter In the dry air and soil of Texas' Southern High Plains, improving soil health can be tough. We usually think of healthy...
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Fossils from “Vegetational Pompeii” Resolve Deep Palaeontology Mystery
Credit: NIGPAS A recent study on spectacular fossil plants preserved in a volcanic ash fall deposit--known as China's "vegetational Pompeii," in Inner Mongolia, China--has resolved...
SUTD wins best paper at 35th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021
The researchers have developed a novel connection which can help in the design of more efficient multi-agent AI systems.Credit: SUTD Game theory is known to...
Air pollutant reductions could enhance global warming without greenhouse gas cuts
Modeling predicts that loss of cooling effect attributed to sulfate aerosols will increase surface air temperature if air pollution and carbon dioxide are not simultaneously...
UVA Health’s Dr. Cynthia Yoshida honored for increasing colorectal cancer screenings
Credit: UVA Health UVA Health's Cynthia M. Yoshida, MD, is one of six winners of a national award recognizing healthcare providers and institutions for their...
Bacteria and viruses: a network of intestinal relationships
Credit: Martial Marbouty / Romain Koszul The balance of human intestinal microbiota, consisting of hundreds of bacterial species and phages (bacteria viruses), is crucial to...
NYITCOM researcher wins prestigious NSF CAREER grant
Research project aims to improve understanding of cranial birth defectsCredit: Akinobu Watanabe Old Westbury, NY--Akinobu "Aki" Watanabe, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy at New York...
How a ladybug warps space-time
Vienna quantum physicists measure the smallest gravitational force yetCredit: © Tobias Westphal / Arkitek Scientific Gravity is the weakest of all known forces in nature...
Red Snapper in the Gulf show signs of stress
Credit: University of South Florida Nearly 100 percent of the red snapper sampled in the Gulf of Mexico over a six-year period by University of...
The important role of music in neurorehabilitation: Filling in critical gaps
Experts highlight current gaps in clinical applications of music therapy in this theme issue of NeuroRehabilitationCredit: Faculty of Music and Faculty of Medicine, University of...
Demystifying the ‘Parkinson Protein’
Research team led by the physical chemist Professor Malte Drescher from Konstanz succeeds in directly observing the membrane binding of α-synuclein in living cellsCredit: Malte...
Face masks are a ticking plastic bomb
Credit: Elvis Genbo Xu/SDU Recent studies estimate that we use an astounding 129 billion face masks globally every month - that is 3 million a...
Nano-mapping phase transitions in electronic materials
Credit: Duncan T.L. Alexander "Phase transitions" are a central phenomenon in physical sciences. Despite being technical-sounding, they are actually something we all experience in everyday...
Unfavorable weather conditions were the main cause of the fog-haze events over the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region during the COVID-19 lockdown
Credit: GAO Yi At the end of December 2019, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) quickly spread throughout Hubei Province and other parts of China. During the...
Using artificial intelligence to generate 3D holograms in real-time
A new method called tensor holography could enable the creation of holograms for virtual reality, 3D printing, medical imaging, and more -- and it can...
