University of Guam launches Drone Corps for students
Program to help gather footage and data for local agenciesCredit: University of Guam As the use of drones continues to rise throughout the island in...
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3500 year-old honeypot: Oldest direct evidence for honey collecting in Africa
Scientists at Goethe University and University of Bristol (UK) find traces of beeswax in prehistoric pottery of the West African Nok cultureCredit: Peter Breunig, Goethe...
New benefits from anti-diabetic drug metformin
Metformin inhibits disease progression in non-diabetic chronic kidney disease (ND-CKD)Credit: Professor Hirofumi Kai Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have found that the anti-diabetic drug metformin...
HIV has been had
Credit: Department of Medicinal Chemistry, TMDU Tokyo, Japan - A team of scientists led by the Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering at Tokyo Medical and...
Novak Djokovic now has a tiny new snail species named after him
Credit: Jozef Grego Do freshwater snails make good tennis players? One of them certainly has the name for it. Enter Travunijana djokovici, a new species...
Supercomputing partnership to turbocharge Australian research and green innovation
Credit: Curtin-ICRAR Curtin University and DUG Technology Ltd have entered into a decade-long partnership to collaborate in the fields of high-performance computing (HPC), education and...
Potential impact of pass/fail USMLE Step 1 scoring on radiology residency applications
2021 ARRS Virtual Annual Meeting research finds as USMLE Step 1 transitions from numerical score to pass/fail, program directors likely to rely on Step 2...
Detoxifying exhaust gas from device production processes
Development of a low-energy, high-efficiency exhaust gas abatement systemCredit: Kanken Techno Co.,Ltd Manufacturing process for industries of electronics, such as semiconductors, flat panel displays, and...
The architect of genome folding
Epigenetic regulator HPI1a drives de novo genome reorganization in early Drosophila embryosCredit: MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, F. Zenk The DNA molecule is not naked...
German National HPC Centre provides resources to look for cracks in the standard model
Physicists have spent 20 years trying to more precisely measure the so-called "magnetic moment" of subatomic particles called muons. Findings published this week call into...
McMaster scientists discover trained immune cells are highly effective against cancer
May prove a game-changer for people living with late-stage cancerCredit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (April 14, 2021) - Modified immune cells that ruthlessly kill cancerous...
Outcome predictive performance of admission chest radiographs in COVID-19 patients
2021 ARRS Virtual Annual Meeting research finds in the setting of high pretest probability of COVID-19 infection or with quick turnaround of rapid RT-PCR COVID-19...
Norovirus clusters are resistant to environmental stresses and UV disinfection, new study finds
Findings suggest need to reconsider current disinfection, sanitation and hygiene practices Credit: NIH WASHINGTON (April 15, 2021) -- Clusters of a virus known to cause...
More than $700,000 from CIHR to study the bacteria that causes meningitis
Understanding the mechanism of pathogenesis of nasopharyngeal bacteria could lead to innovative treatment optionsCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) Professor Frédéric Veyrier of the Institut national de...
Study indicates longer reproductive life span experienced by US women
TTUHSC researcher analyzes factors driving the increase in age at natural menopauseCredit: TTUHSC As females age, their bodies typically undergo two significant changes that generally...
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