Keeping drivers safe with a road that can melt snow, ice on its own
Slipping and sliding on snowy or icy roads is dangerous. Salt and sand help melt ice or provide traction, but excessive use is bad for...
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Arming vegetables with anti-inflammatory properties using plant pigments
Betalains are a class of plant pigments that are responsible for the characteristic red-violet (betacyanin) or yellow (betaxanthin) color of certain fruits and vegetables. These...
CityU scientists engineer a breath-to-charge electrostatic face mask for prolonged air filtration, reducing the environmental burden
Electrostatic adsorption is an important complement to mechanical filtration for high-efficiency air filtering in the use of face masks. However, the electrostatic charge of the...
Incarceration: burdensome legacy for African American fathers and their sons
More than 1.1 million African American men are imprisoned in the United States, and about 500,000 are fathers. Many of their fathers also served time...
Terasaki Innovation Summit to bring academic and industry leaders together to tackle challenges of bringing biomedical innovations to patients
Los Angeles, CA – Feb. 16, 2023 – The Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) is proud to announce the final agenda for its Terasaki...
New study identifies key success factors for large carnivore rewilding efforts
EMBARGOED UNTIL THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY 01:00 AM GMT/UTC (20:00 15 FEBRUARY ET)Credit: Caption: The 2022 release of a collared leopard into the North Ossetia (Central...
Mothers’ alcohol consumption before and during pregnancy is linked to changes in children’s face shapes
Researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technology to find a link between alterations in the shape of children’s faces and the amount...
Novel optical and fMRI platform identifies brain regions that control large-scale brain network
When we daydream or revisit memories, a large group of regions within our brain “lights up,” or becomes more active. It's referred to as the...
Transgender health in correctional systems
In the article titled “Trans and Living in Prison: A First-Person Perspective,” Ruth Utnage describes her experience in prison as a transgender woman. Her attempts...
Aging | Immune-mediated platelet depletion augments Alzheimer’s disease in mice
“Our study suggests that platelets might contribute to limiting amyloid plaque size and neuronal damage, having a beneficial role in AD .”Credit: 2023 de Sousa...
Proposed quantum device may succinctly realize emergent particles such as the Fibonacci anyon
Long before Dr. Jukka Vayrynen was an assistant professor at the Purdue Department of Physics and Astronomy, he was a post-doc investigating a theoretical model...
‘Innovative and Impactful’
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — UC Santa Barbara assistant professors Sagar Vijay and Tejaswi Nerella have been selected to receive prestigious research fellowships from the Alfred...
Putting particle accelerator cavities to the test
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Since it first went online more than 30 years ago, the Vertical Test Area at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas...
Five Tufts faculty named National Academy of Inventors Senior Members
Five Tufts faculty have been named as senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), a prestigious recognition awarded to academic inventors who are...
Engineers discover a new way to control atomic nuclei as “qubits”
In principle, quantum-based devices such as computers and sensors could vastly outperform conventional digital technologies for carrying out many complex tasks. But developing such devices...
