WVU receives grant to pilot drinking water testing program
Credit: West Virginia University Jason Hubbart, an educator and researcher at West Virginia University, is acutely aware of the importance of quality drinking water in...
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WVU Public Health professor aims to better understand the needs of pregnant women with substance use
Credit: West Virginia University Dr. Brian Hendricks, a research assistant professor with the West Virginia University School of Public Health's Department of Epidemiology, is trying...
Adger, Burton and O’Brien win the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change
The award has gone in this thirteenth edition to Neil Adger, Ian Burton and Karen O'Brien for changing the paradigm of climate change action by...
Scoring system to redefine how U.S. patients prioritized for liver transplant
Credit: Getty Images Liver transplant priority in the U.S. goes to the sickest patients, which fails to consider other important factors, including how long patients...
Astronomers find signature of magnetar outbursts in nearby galaxies
Spacecraft detect giant flare in nearby galaxy, allowing localization in star forming regionCredit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona...
Northern lakes at risk of losing ice cover permanently, impacting drinking water
Credit: York University Postdoctoral Fellow Alessandro Filazzola TORONTO, Jan. 13, 2021 - Close to 5,700 lakes in the Northern Hemisphere may permanently lose ice cover...
Compound from medicinal herb kills brain-eating amoebae in lab studies
Credit: Adapted from ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00685 Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly disease caused by the "brain-eating amoeba" Naegleria fowleri, is becoming...
Raman spectroscopy shows promise for diagnosing oral cancer
Technology could enable non-invasive cancer screening in the dentist's chairCredit: Levi Matthies, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf WASHINGTON -- In a new study, researchers show that...
The cancer microbiome reveals which bacteria live in tumors
Researchers clean up data to identify the bugs betterCredit: Anders Dohlman, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University have devised an algorithm...
Superheroes, foods and apps bring a modern twist to the periodic table
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Chemical Education 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c01143 Many students, especially non-science majors, dread chemistry. The first lesson in an introductory chemistry course...
Pollinators not getting the ‘buzz’ they need in news coverage
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A dramatic decline in bees and other pollinating insects presents a threat to the global food...
DOD funding helps expand study of investigational drug to prevent ARDS in COVID
Credit: Cody Duty/UTHealth Researchers evaluating whether an investigational oral drug, vadadustat, can help prevent acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in COVID-19 patients were awarded $5.1...
Error protected quantum bits entangled
A milestone in the development of fault-tolerant quantum computerCredit: Uni Innsbruck/Harald Ritsch Even computers can miscalculate. Already small disturbances change stored information and corrupt results....
Flashing plastic ash completes recycling
Rice lab's turns pyrolyzed ash into graphene for improving concrete, other compoundsCredit: Tour Group/Rice University HOUSTON - (Jan. 13, 2021) - Pyrolyzed plastic ash is...
A fly’s eye view of evolution
Research team led by Göttingen University investigates molecular basis of eye size variation in insectsCredit: Georg Bullinger The fascinating compound eyes of insects consist of...
