MTU engineers zap and unstick underwater smart glue
Credit: Sarah Bird/Michigan Tech With a small zap of electricity, biomedical engineers at Michigan Technological University take an underwater smart glue prototype from sticky to...
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The microbes in your mouth, and a reminder to floss and go to the dentist
Oral microbiome was subject of crowd-sourced study by CSU, Denver museumCredit: Denver Museum of Nature & Science Most people know that good oral hygiene -...
To predict an epidemic, evolution can’t be ignored
Credit: Carnegie Mellon College of Engineering When scientists try to predict the spread of something across populations--anything from a coronavirus to misinformation--they use complex mathematical...
Earliest look at newborns’ visual cortex reveals the minds babies start with
Credit: Cory Inman Within hours of birth, a baby's gaze is drawn to faces. Now, brain scans of newborns reveal the neurobiology underlying this behavior,...
Study maps landmarks of peripheral artery disease to guide treatment development
Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Novel biomedical advances that show promise in the lab often fall short in clinical trials. For researchers...
Navigating the potential pitfalls of tracking college athletes
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Fitness trackers like Fitbit and Garmin watches make it easy for anyone to collect data about health and performance. Now...
To bee, or not to bee, a question for almond growers
Credit: Drs. Saez and Negri Pollination by bees is vital even when crops are assumed to be pollinator independent. That's according to a study co-authored...
Improved work environments enhance patient and nurse satisfaction
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (March 2, 2020) - Healthcare provider burnout is a mounting public health crisis with up to half of all physicians and...
Geologists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust
Credit: Photo by Jana Meixnerova/provided by Benjamin Johnson AMES, Iowa - The Earth of 3.2 billion years ago was a "water world" of submerged continents,...
Collaborative using UVM researcher using NSF grant to recreate regional temperature data
Discovering a missing piece of recent climate dataCredit: University of Vermont Schoolchildren know that the age of a tree can be measured by counting the...
Study finds ‘silent’ genetic variations can alter protein folding
Credit: Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame Proteins, the workhorse of the human cell, help digest our food, carry oxygen though the body, fight...
Beef consumption hurting river quality
New study shows water scarcity and fish imperilment are driven by beef production in the Western United StatesCredit: University of Delaware Across the globe, humans...
Beef consumption hurting river quality
New study shows water scarcity and fish imperilment are driven by beef production in the Western United StatesCredit: University of Delaware Across the globe, humans...
APS tip sheet: Using bird song to determine bird size
An analysis of a bird species' unique rasps shows how sound fluctuations in birds' songs might reveal details about birds' body sizesCredit: Uribarri et al....
Montana State researchers earn NSF grant to study caddisflies and stream health
Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez BOZEMAN -- Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology, a pair of Montana...
