Novotech awarded the Asia Pacific CRO of the Year 2022 for Best Practices in Clinical Trials
Novotech, the leading Asia Pacific biotech specialist CRO, has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award 2022 for Best Practices in...
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Brookhaven Lab to lead new ‘saturated glue’ theory collaboration
UPTON, NY—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced funding for a new Topical Theory Collaboration to be led by DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory that...
Lehigh University shares in $47 million DOE push to accelerate fusion energy research
The world’s largest nuclear fusion reactor is currently being built in the south of France. Called ITER— Latin for “the path”—the machine is the product...
Access to contraceptives translates into more bachelor’s degrees for women in Colorado
Access to contraceptives increases college completion rates among women, according to a new study led by a professor at the University of Colorado Denver.Credit: University...
Aging | The potential benefit of metformin to reduce delirium risk and mortality: a retrospective cohort study
“In this report, we showed the potential benefit of metformin in decreasing the risk of delirium and mortality in DM subjects.”Credit: 2022 Yamanashi et al....
How behind-the-scenes sound mixing makes movie magic #ASA183
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 7, 2022 – If you've ever watched a movie where the audio is out of sync, it quickly becomes obvious that smooth,...
Reading the room: humans struggle to identify aggression in dogs, other humans
As a species, humans are constantly interpreting signals to assess social situations and make predictions about what could happen next. Being able to tell if...
Scientists discover mechanism plants use to control ‘mouths’
Because breathing is generally involuntary, we sometimes forget how complicated it is. But biologists are gaining new insight into the intricate process in plants, with...
Humans are poor at identifying aggressive behavior in videos of dogs and humans
While humans can generally identify the nature of social interactions between children, dogs and monkeys from facial expressions and body language, we are poor at...
Heart attack on a chip
Researchers at the University of Southern California Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering have developed a “heart attack on a chip,” a device that could...
Wearable sensor could guide precision drug dosing
For some of the powerful drugs used to fight infection and cancer, there’s only a small difference between a healing dose and a dose that’s...
Some forms of childhood malnutrition, stunting may be preventable with vaccines
Diarrhea is no longer the killer it was in the mid-20th century, when an estimated 4.5 million children under age 5 died of it every...
Soil in midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1,000 times faster than it forms, study finds
AMHERST, Mass. – In a discovery that has repercussions for everything from domestic agricultural policy to global food security and the plans to mitigate climate...
Rust-coated irrigation pipes hint at lack of nitrate in groundwater
Oh, we don’t have to worry about that area. They have red pivots.Credit: Mikaela Cherry / ACS ES&T Water / Scott Schrage Oh, we don’t have...
Helping acoustic concepts resonate with students #ASA183
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 7, 2022 – "I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now." With these words, Alvin Lucier...
