World’s smallest atom-memory unit created
Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. Faster, smaller, smarter and more energy-efficient chips for everything from consumer electronics to big...
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Physicians investigate whether magnetic seizure therapy can treat bipolar depression
Credit: Maricruz Kwon/UTHealth Researchers are assessing whether magnetic seizure therapy (MST) can help relieve treatment-resistant depression in bipolar patients in a clinical trial led by...
Supersized wind turbines generate clean energy–and surprising physics
As wind energy scales up, researchers study the fluid dynamics challengesCredit: Jamey Jacob VIRTUAL MEETING (CST), November 22, 2020 -- Twenty years ago, wind energy...
Study: COVID-19 infection combined with blood clots worsen patient outcomes
Researchers at UC San Diego Health connect blood clots to an increased risk of death from COVID-19Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences While respiratory issues...
PEDSnet report details how COVID-19 pandemic has affected children
Analysis of 135,000+ medical records shows the novel coronavirus hits hardest among teens, children with diabetes or cancer, lower-income families, and Black, Latinx and Asian...
How to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19
Researchers are developing simple and inexpensive tools--like a DIY ventilator--to treat patients more effectively and prevent disease transmission in hospitalsCredit: Mohamed Amine Abassi. VIRTUAL MEETING...
Flow physics could help forecasters predict extreme events
Researchers are studying a tornado's song and other 'doors to danger' in an increasingly chaotic worldCredit: Brian Elbing VIRTUAL MEETING (CST), November 22, 2020 --...
Galaxy encounter violently disturbed Milky Way, study finds
The long-held belief that the Milky Way, the galaxy containing Earth and the solar system, is relatively static has been ruptured by fresh cosmic insightCredit:...
A rich source of nutrients under the Earth’s ice sheets
Data from Greenland and Antarctica show: under ice trace elements are mobilised at higher rates than previously assumedCredit: Jon Hawkings, GFZ Trace elements such as...
Study: Early, late stages of degenerative diseases are distinct
Two-phase theory applies to diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, muscle atrophyCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 23, 2020) - Rice University biochemists Michael Stern and...
Carbon nanocomposites are now one step closer to practical industrial
Credit: The image was taken in the Laboratory of Micro and Nano Mechanics, CDMM at Skoltech. A research team from the Center for Design, Manufacturing...
What does East Germany’s rise and fall have to do with pigs? A lot, actually
The communist state's approach to industrial pig farming foreshadowed its demise, a University of Rochester historian arguesCredit: University of Washington Press Thomas Fleischman has been...
Argonne team collects Best Paper Award at SC20
Credit: Image courtesy of SC20 conference. An innovative collaboration between computer and computational scientists from the Data Science and Learning division (DSL) and Advanced Photon...
Identifying compound classes through machine learning
Bioinformaticians at the University of Jena and partners develop new method for analysing metabolitesCredit: Image: Jens Meyer/University of Jena (Jena, Germany) Everything that lives has...
Growing interest in Moon resources could cause tension, scientists find
New research indicates that limited resources on Earth's satellite could cause crowding and competition as site selection, extraction become realityCredit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/DLR/ASU; Overlay:...
