Wearable health sensors will help detect disease in livestock
Credit: Biotangents Wearable biosensors are being developed to help monitor the health of livestock, particularly dairy cows, with the aim of identifying the disease brucellosis...
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Using nano-scale spintronics, researchers aim to build novel artificial brain
New research project to develop novel AI hardware; a completely new kind of computer system that mimics how the human brain is built. The artificial...
Balcan named recipient of ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for machine learning innovations
Foundational contributions to minimally-supervised learning recognizedCredit: Association for Computing Machinery ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Maria Florina "Nina" Balcan of Carnegie Mellon...
UCF scientists seek novel material to kill COVID-19
Researchers say nanoparticle film would 'catch' and kill virus, better protect healthcare providersCredit: UCF College of Medicine Masks that protect doctors and nurses from COVID-19...
Mutation reduces energy waste in plants
Credit: © Markus Scholz, Uni Halle To this end, the team identified several thousand proteins, determined their respective amounts in mutant and reference lines and...
Impulse for research on fungi
Credit: (Picture: Ulrich Terpitz / University of Würzburg) Fungi play an important role for mankind. In the soil, they decompose dead organic material, making it...
Therapy dogs may help lower emergency clinicians’ stress
Credit: Dr. Kline New research published in Academic Emergency Medicine indicates that for physicians and nurses working evening shifts in the emergency department, interacting with...
Building a bean that resists leafhoppers
Credit: Tim Porch Leafhoppers are tiny insects. They are only about 3 millimeters long, smaller than a grain of rice. But they can cause big...
Exploring why males are larger than females among mammals
Credit: Marcelo H. Cassini, PhD In most animals, females are larger than males, but in most mammals, males are larger than females. A new analysis...
How does habitat fragmentation affect Amazonian birds?
Four decades of research provide some answersCredit: Phil Stouffer The Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP), located near Manaus, Brazil, began in 1979 and...
What are the environmental impacts of cancer drugs?
Credit: Christopher J. Malyniuk Chemotherapeutic drugs, also known as antineoplastic agents, that are prescribed to treat a range of cancer types, enter the aquatic environment...
Coquí fossil from Puerto Rico takes title of oldest Caribbean frog
Credit: Alberto Lopez Torres GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- The bright chirp of the coquí frog, the national symbol of Puerto Rico, has likely resounded through Caribbean...
The link between virus spillover, wildlife extinction and the environment
The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spilloverCredit: Christine K. Johnson, UC Davis As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common question...
It’s now or never: Visual events have 100 milliseconds to hit brain target or go unnoticed
NIH mouse study reveals key details about visual processingCredit: Image credit: Lupeng Wang, Ph.D. and Charles Gerfen, Ph.D. Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI)...
River-groundwater hot spot for arsenic
Computer modelling deciphers complex interfaceCredit: Wallis et al Naturally occurring (geogenic) groundwater arsenic contamination is a problem of global significance, with noteworthy occurrences in large...
