Study shows incorporating telemedicine helps surgical practices
Credit: Stony Brook University STONY BROOK, NY, December 18, 2020 - A new study that records patient volume at Stony Brook Medicine's Bariatric and Metabolic...
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Zika virus affects eye development before but not after birth
Credit: Glenn Yiu and Koen Van Rompay, UC Davis While the SARS-CoV-2 virus has dominated the news this past year, researchers continue to study the...
New topological properties found in “old” material of Cobalt disulfide
For one thing, it's not a true half-metalCredit: Princeton Department of Chemistry, Schoop Lab Leading a collaboration of institutions in the U.S. and abroad, the...
Media Alert: The CRISPR Journal publishes special issue on expanding the CRISPR toolbox
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers The CRISPR Journal announces the publication of its December 2020 issue, a Special Issue on Expanding the CRISPR Toolbox....
Scientists get the most realistic view yet of a coronavirus spike’s protein structure
The study, done on a mild-mannered relative of the virus that causes COVID-19, paves the way for seeing more clearly how spike proteins initiate infections,...
Historic partnership receives national recognition
UT AgResearch-TNC awarded for their commitment to forest conservationCredit: Photo by D. Edlund, courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- University of Tennessee AgResearch and The Nature...
Shifting gears toward chemical machines
Pitt engineers build chemically driven wheels that "morph" into gears to perform mechanical workCredit: A. Laskar PITTSBURGH (December 18, 2020) ... The gear is one...
Roadmap to renewables unites climate and sustainability goals
Vision and research gaps for a low-carbon, biodiverse futureCredit: Rebecca R. Hernandez, UC Davis While the pressures of climate change bring a sense of urgency...
Water limitations in the tropics offset carbon uptake from arctic greening
Credit: Credits: NASA/Nima Madani More plants and longer growing seasons in the northern latitudes have converted parts of Alaska, Canada and Siberia to deeper shades...
Developing smarter, faster machine intelligence with light
Researchers invent an optical convolutional neural network accelerator for machine learningCredit: Volker Sorger/GWU SUMMARY Researchers at the George Washington University, together with researchers at the...
Humpback whale songs provide insight to population changes
Credit: HIHWNMS/NMFS ESA Permit #782-1719 Approximately 8,000-12,000 of the North Pacific humpback whale stock visits the shallow waters of the Hawaiian Islands seasonally to breed....
Recently discovered comet seen during 2020 total solar eclipse
Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Andreas Möller (Arbeitskreis Meteore e.V.)/processed by Jay Pasachoff and Roman Vanur/Joy Ng. Eclipse image used with permission. As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total...
Devastating skin disease covering up to 70% of a dolphin’s body tied to climate change
In collaboration with Australian researchers, The Marine Mammal Center has found that the increasing frequency and severity of storm systems drastically decrease the salinity of...
NASA finds what a glacier’s slope reveals about Greenland Ice Sheet thinning
Credit: Credits: Denis Felikson As glaciers flow outward from the Greenland Ice Sheet, what lies beneath them offers clues to their role in future ice...
NASA’s Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests
Credit: Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshield of NASA's fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed...
