Andrew Butler receives prestigious Weintraub Award for outstanding graduate research
Credit: New York Genome Center NEW YORK, NY (March 2, 2020) - Andrew Butler, a PhD student at New York University and member of Rahul...
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Improving shoes, showers, 3D printing: Research launching to the space station
A variety of science investigations, along with supplies and equipment, launch to the International Space Station on the 20th SpaceX commercial resupply services missionCredit: NASA...
Space weather model gives earlier warning of satellite-killing radiation storms
Two-day notice lets satellite operators take protective measures against energetic electronsCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 2, 2020--A new machine-learning computer model...
What if mysterious ‘cotton candy’ planets actually sport rings?
Some of the extremely low-density, 'cotton candy like' exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have ringsCredit: Illustration is by Robin Dienel and courtesy of the Carnegie...
Fresh clean drinking water for all could soon to be a reality in Pakistan
Huddersfield senior research fellow Dr. Muhammad Usman Ghori will be working with Pakistani officials to bring clean, affordable drinking water to the people of South...
Technology provides a new way to probe single molecules
Precision measurements can aid understanding of disease, infection and vaccinesCredit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- Biology can be murky, and medicine involves dealing with very...
Engendering trust in an AI world
Credit: Kareyst Lin SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer - Can you imagine a world without personalised Spotify playlists, curated social media feeds, or...
Federally protected lands reduce habitat loss and protect endangered species, study finds
Significantly greater habitat loss occurs on private lands, indicating a need for more uniform conservation effortsCredit: Adam Eichenwald, Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (March 2, 2020)--...
NASA finds ex-Tropical Cyclone Esther moving back inland
Credit: NASA Worldview Ex-Tropical Cyclone Esther just won't give up. The storm formed in the South Pacific Ocean, tracked across Australia's Northern Territory and reached...
Implementing microbiome diagnostics in personalized medicine: Rise of pharmacomicrobiomics
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 2, 2020--A new Commentary identifies three actionable challenges for translating pharmacomicrobiomics to personalized medicine in...
How quickly do flower strips in cities help the local bees?
Credit: Susanne S. Renner Insects rely on a mix of floral resources for survival. Populations of bees, butterflies, and flies are currently rapidly decreasing due...
Surgeons cut opioid prescriptions by 64 percent using a new multipronged program
Physician education, monitoring, and incentives lead to a shift from longer-term to shorter-term prescriptions for surgical patients, according to new Journal of the American College...
Marine cyanobacteria do not survive solely on photosynthesis
Credit: University of Córdoba Marine cyanobacteria are single-cell organisms that settled in the oceans millions of years ago. They are organisms that, by means of...
Atomic vacancy as quantum bit
Credit: (Image: Mehran Kianinia, University of Technology Sydney) Although boron nitride looks very similar to graphene in structure, it has completely different optoelectronic properties. Its...
What can you learn by peering into a fruit fly’s gut? It turns out a lot!
Eavesdropping on 'conversations' between gut stem cells and gut bacteriaCredit: Image is courtesy of Leslie Koyama and Lucy O'Brien. Baltimore, MD-- They say a picture...
