Army lab, industry announce partnership to develop new materials
Credit: U.S. Army photo by Conrad Johnson The Army and a major defense contractor established a new research partnership to create novel materials to further...
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PCORI Board approves $2.8 million to support implementation of findings
Projects focus on sleep apnea and community health worker interventions WASHINGTON, DC (February 26, 2019) -- The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors...
Machine learning could eliminate unnecessary treatments for children with arthritis
An algorithm predicted disease outcome in children suffering from arthritis, helping doctors better tailor treatmentCredit: Simon Eng Arthritis is not just an ailment of old...
‘Dead zone’ volume more important than area to fish, fisheries
Dubravko Justic, the Texaco Distinguished Professor in the LSU Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, and Research Associate Lixia Wang recently co-authored a study suggesting...
NASA finds heavy rainfall potential in new Tropical Cyclone Pola
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Cyclone Pola formed in the South Pacific Ocean on February 26 and the Fiji Meteorological Services quickly heavy rain posted warnings....
Zoonoses: Antimicrobial resistance shows no signs of slowing down
ECDC/EFSA report 'rings alarm bells,' says EU CommissionerCredit: ECDC/EFSA, 2019 Data released today by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and European...
Signals from distant lightning could help secure electric substations
Credit: Christopher Moore, Georgia Tech Side channel signals and bolts of lightning from distant storms could one day help prevent hackers from sabotaging electric power...
An existing drug may have therapeutic potential in mitochondrial disease
CHOP researchers: Animal studies may offer clues to possible precision medicine approachCredit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia New preclinical findings from extensive cell and animal studies...
You recognize your face even when you don’t ‘see’ it
Given the limited capacity of our attention, we only process a small amount of the sights, sounds, and sensations that reach our senses at any...
NASA-NOAA satellite finds Typhoon Wutip’s eye clouded
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and captured an...
Cancer survivors see mostly positives in how they have changed
Study: Intervention program further boosted positive thoughts COLUMBUS, Ohio - Two years after diagnosis, breast cancer survivors have four times more positive than negative thoughts...
Online intervention shows promise in HIV prevention
Penn Nursing tool helps decrease HIV risks among young men who have sex with menCredit: José Bauermeister, Ph.D., M.P.H./ Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (February 26, 2019)...
Inside the brains of hungry worms, researchers find clues about how they hunt
Credit: Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at The Rockefeller University Perpetually hungry, worms are strategic when it comes to searching...
Can we address climate change without sacrificing water quality?
Some efforts at reducing carbon emissions could actually increase the risk of water quality impairments, researchers findCredit: NASA Earth Observatory, by Joshua Stevens Washington, DC--Strategies...
Study reveals that night and weekend births have substantially higher risk of delivery complications
As if expecting mothers didn't have enough to worry about, a new study published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal found that the quantity of...
