Two-hour sepsis test in development at Penn State and Stanford University
A National Institutes of Health grant will fund a precise and quick test to help treat one of the largest causes of death due to...
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Rice finds path to nanodiamond from graphene
A spot of pressure enables chemical conversion to hardened 2D materialCredit: Illustration by Pavel Sorokin HOUSTON - (Oct. 29, 2020) - Marrying two layers of...
Models show how COVID-19 cuts a neighborhood path
Credit: Thomas et al., 2020, PNAS The coronavirus doesn't spread uniformly through a community. But in the world of disease modeling, many projections take a...
UMass Amherst research compares sensitivity of all genes to chemical exposure
Using an unbiased approach, scientists for the first time analyzed more than ½-million chemical-gene interactionsCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst environmental health scientist...
‘Time machine’ offers new pancreatic cancer drug testing approach
Testing drugs within a tumor may combat pancreatic cancer drug resistanceCredit: Purdue University/Rebecca McElhoe WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Many patients with pancreatic cancer have only...
Water fleas on ‘happy pills’ have more offspring
All those medicines we take? A lot end up in treated wastewater -- with sometimes surprising resultsCredit: Photo: Per Harald Olsen, NTNU Zooplankton can grow...
Losing ground in biodiversity hotspots worldwide
Agriculture, urban sprawl destroying biologically important areasCredit: Francesco Cherubini/NTNU Between 1992 and 2015, the world's most biologically diverse places lost an area more than three...
Breakthrough quantum-dot transistors create a flexible alternative to conventional electronics
Quantum dot logic circuits provide the long-sought building blocks for innovative devices, including printable electronics, flexible displays, and medical diagnosticsCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory/University of...
Molecular compass for cell orientation
Scientists at IST Austria discovered how the hormone auxin coordinates the cells during vasculature formation and regenerationCredit: Jakub Hajný / IST Austria Plants have veins...
Corporations directing our attention online more than we realize
Credit: Photo courtesy Harsh Taneja CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- We know how search engines can favor certain results and how social media might push us into...
Researcher develops app to reach Black community with COVID-19 information
University of Cincinnati physician gets a boost from the Association of Black Cardiologists for studyCredit: Photo by Colleen Kelley/UC Creative + Brand. A University of...
Streetlights contribute less to nighttime light emissions in cities than expected
The combination of smart city lighting and satellite imagery allows measurements of the contribution of street lights to urban lighting for the first time, and...
Scientists launch quest to develop quantum sensors for probing quantum materials
SLAC and Stanford partner with two Illinois universities to create the Center for Quantum Sensing and Quantum Materials, which aims to unravel mysteries associated with...
Order in the disorder:
density fluctuations in amorphous silicon discoveredCredit: Eike Gericke/HZB Silicon does not have to be crystalline, but can also be produced as an amorphous thin film....
Individual red foxes prefer different foods in the city and the countryside
Credit: S. Kramer-Schadt, IZW Foxes are considered to be particularly adaptable and suited to life in large cities. A team of scientists from the Leibniz...
