Exploring pieces of heart muscle that fail to compact
University of Houston researcher awarded $2.5M to study "spongy heart"Credit: University of Houston University of Houston pharmacologist Mingfu Wu has been awarded $2.5 million from...
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Newly discovered millipede, Nannaria hokie, lives at Virginia Tech
Credit: Virginia Tech Hearing the words "new species discovered" may conjure images of deep caves, uncharted rainforests, or hidden oases in the desert. But the...
A super-Earth is discovered which can be used to test planetary atmosphere models
Credit: RenderArea During the past 25 years astronomers have discovered a wide variety of exoplanets, made of rock, ice and gas, thanks to the construction...
CSU’s Kyle Horton leads NASA study on impact of artificial light on migratory birds
Credit: Kyle Horton A groundbreaking study published in 2017 found that artificial light from the Tribute in Light installation at the National September 11 Memorial...
New evidence COVID-19 antibodies, vaccines less effective against variants
Worrisome new coronavirus variants can evade antibodies that neutralize original virusCredit: Matt Miller/Washington University New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis...
Neural networks need more than neurons, new project posits
Credit: Vincent Breton-Provencher/MIT Picower Institute By encoding a feature of biological intelligence called reinforcement learning, in which we iteratively learn from successes and failures, "deep...
Fermented wool is the answer
FAU researchers reveal the secret of the famous Pazyryk carpetCredit: FAU/Dr. Andreas Späth The Pazyryk carpet is the world's oldest example of a knotted-pile carpet...
Easy-to-deliver mRNA treatment shows promise for stopping flu and Covid-19 viruses
Credit: (Photo: Georgia Institute of Technology) With a relatively minor genetic change, a new treatment developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and...
A COSMIC approach to nanoscale science
Instrument at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source achieves world-leading resolution of nanomaterialsCredit: Chungnam National University COSMIC, a multipurpose X-ray instrument at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's...
NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite reveals shape, depth of Antarctic ice shelf fractures
Credit: Shujie Wang, Penn State When a block of ice the size of Houston, Texas, broke off from East Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf in 2019,...
Preventive Medicine publishes special issue focused on eliminating cervical cancer
Moffitt Cancer Center's Dr. Anna Giuliano one of two guest editors for the issueCredit: Moffitt Cancer Center Cervical cancer is a serious global health threat...
A world without cervical cancer: Preventive Medicine publishes special issue to further global efforts to eliminate deadly disease
More than 100 scientists provide guidance towards meeting WHO global strategy of eliminating cervical cancer by 2030Credit: Moffitt Cancer Center Amsterdam, March 4, 2021 -...
Female gannets go the extra mile to feed chicks
Credit: Dr Bethany Clark Female gannets travel further than male gannets to find fish for their chicks in some years but not others, new research...
Volcanoes might light up the night sky of this planet
Credit: © Universität Bern / University of Bern, Illustration: Thibaut Roger On Earth, plate tectonics is not only responsible for the rise of mountains and...
First wearable device can monitor jaundice-causing bilirubin and vitals in newborns
Credit: Yokohama National University Researchers in Japan have developed the first wearable devices to precisely monitor jaundice, a yellowing of the skin caused by elevated...
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