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Researchers develop a low-cost and fast method to detect a COVID-19 infection from a pool of gargle lavage samplesCredit: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology Quantitative real-time...

Tracking proteins in the heart of cells

For the first time, a UNIGE team has been able to follow precisely the path taken by a protein within the cell, paving the way...

The collapse of Northern California kelp forests will be hard to reverse

Most of Northern California's kelp forest ecosystem is gone, replaced by widespread 'urchin barrens' that may persist long into the future, according to a new...

Beauty is in the brain: AI reads brain data, generates personally attractive images

Researchers have succeeded in making an AI understand our subjective notions of what makes faces attractiveCredit: Cognitive computing research group Researchers have succeeded in making...

Int’l Women’s Day: Fathima Wakeel to present at Women in Data Science Conference

Wakeel, from Lehigh University's College of Health, will discuss how to frame population health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic using maternal and child health epidemiological...

Team of bioethicists and scientists suggests revisiting 14-day limit on human embryo

Credit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND (March 5, 2021)--An international team of bioethicists and scientists, led by a researcher at Case Western Reserve University, contends...

An unstable working life affects the future mental health of young people

This study evaluates the relationship between the various possible pathways at the start of working life with future absenteeism due to mental disorders in a...

Twistoptics–A new way to control optical nonlinearity

Researchers engineer 1st technique to exploit the tunable symmetry of 2D materials for nonlinear optical applications: laser, optical spectroscopy, imaging, and metrology systems, and next-generation...

National panel chaired by PPPL expert urges fusion pilot plant by 2035-2040

Such a plant would impact the transition to a low-carbon emission electrical systemCredit: Photos and collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. The U.S. should...

Scientists explore the action mechanism of a new antibiotic

Credit: Timur Sabirov/Skoltech Scientists from Skoltech and MSU have investigated antibiotic nybomycin that could prove effective against bacteria resistant to other antibiotics. Their research was...

Field study shows icing can cost wind turbines up to 80% of power production

Credit: Photo courtesy of Hui Hu/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Wind turbine blades spinning through cold, wet conditions can collect ice nearly a foot...

Earth has a hot new neighbour — and it’s an astronomer’s dream

A rocky planet discovered in the Virgo constellation could change how we look for life in the universeCredit: RenderArea, https://renderarea.com A newly discovered planet could...

Peter Goadsby, migraine expert, awarded the Brain Prize 2021

Credit: UCLA Health Dr. Peter Goadsby, professor of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been chosen as one of four...

A new strategy for pooling COVID-19 tests to detect outbreaks early

Novel protocol draws on mathematical models that account for false-negative test resultsCredit: Jean-François Rupprecht, the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université/Université de Toulon), 2021 Researchers...

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