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...
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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...
American Roentgen Ray Society awards 2021 scholarships to Tatiana Kelil, Camilo Jaimes
Kelil to pursue personalized breast cancer risk assessment using imaging biomarkers and machine learning; Jaimes to investigate fetal diffusion tensor imaging and microstructural brain abnormalities...
How does the brain project manage its learning?
A new paper in Science co-authored by Dr. Richard Naud sheds light on the role of the perirhinal cortexCredit: University of Ottawa The famous patient...
APS plays foundational role in development of COVID-19 vaccines
Credit: Jason McLellan There is light at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic tunnel. Several vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 are now...
New mechanism of force transduction in muscle cells discovered
Researchers of Münster University reveal mechanobiological function of muscle-specific adhesion proteinCredit: Carsten Grashoff The ability of cells to sense and respond to their mechanical environment...
World’s first transmission of 1 Petabit/s using a single-core multimode optical fiber
Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) Points A world record transmission of 1 petabit per second in a multimode optical fiber increases...
Researchers publish free guides packed with wisdom from COVID-19 patients and caregivers
Practical tips for COVID-19 hospital and post-hospital care available for anyone to use, and for any hospital or health system to adapt and publishCredit: University...
