SwRI markerless motion capture project optimizes baseball pitchers’ movements
SAN ANTONIO — June 6, 2023 —Southwest Research Institute is using markerless motion capture to assess the performance and injury risk of baseball pitchers. The...
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More complex than expected: Catalysis under the microscope
Catalysts composed from tiny metal particles play an important role in many areas of technology – from fuel cells to production of synthetic fuels for...
Electrical synapses in the neural network of insects found to have unexpected role in controlling flight power
A team of experimental neurobiologists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and theoretical biologists at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin has managed to solve a mystery that...
Bombardier vs. assassin: Mimetic interactions via a shared enemy
Animals can defend themselves against their natural enemies in various ways. Well-defended species often share conspicuous body colors with other well-defended or undefended species, forming...
Global health advocate Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi wins Vilcek-Gold Award
New York, NY, June 6, 2023 — The Vilcek Foundation and The Arnold P. Gold Foundation have announced they will bestow the 2023 Vilcek-Gold Award...
Mount Sinai researchers use new deep learning approach to enable analysis of electrocardiograms as language
New York, NY (June 6, 2023) – Mount Sinai researchers have developed an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) model for electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis that allows for...
Ba2LuAlO5: A new proton conductor for next-generation fuel cells
The discovery of Ba2LuAlO5 as a promising proton conductor paints a bright future for protonic ceramic fuel cells, report scientists from Tokyo Tech. Experiments show...
Team develops smartphone app to enhance midwifery care in Tanzania
An international research team from Tanzania and Japan created a smartphone app and conducted a pilot study of how the app might be used to...
Webb telescope detects universe’s most distant organic molecules
An international team of astronomers has detected complex organic molecules in the most distant galaxy to date using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.Credit: J. Spilker /...
Renowned sociologist and Black Voices Quintet set to dazzle at HDR UK’s Black Internship Programme Opening Ceremony 2023
Contact: Clare Leahy [email protected] 07748016062Credit: HDR UK Contact: Clare Leahy [email protected] 07748016062 Event registration for press: https://bit.ly/45rIQBr Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) is launching its Health Data Science Black Internship Programme for...
Sleep societies announce 2023 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Award recipient
DARIEN, IL – Sleep researcher Dayna A. Johnson is the recipient of the 2023 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Award from the Associated Professional Sleep...
Healthy vascular fat during menopause may stave off dementia later in life
The research, published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia, is further evidence that the menopause transition is a particularly important time for women and their...
A simple blood test can now diagnose De Vivo disease
Glut1 deficiency syndrome is a rare and disabling neurological disease still relatively unknown to the medical community. A mutation in the SLC2A1 gene in affected...
CRISPR/Cas9 reveals a key gene involved in the evolution of coral skeleton formation
Baltimore, MD—New work led by Carnegie’s Phillip Cleves uses cutting-edge CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing tools to reveal a gene that’s critical to stony corals’ ability to...
The other side of the story: How evolution impacts the environment
KINGSTON, R.I. — June 5, 2023 — The story of the peppered moths is a textbook evolutionary tale. As coal smoke darkened tree bark near...
