Pregnant and lactating women with COVID-19: Scant clinical research
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 18, 2020--Pregnant and breastfeeding women have been excluded from clinical trials of drugs to treat...
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Penn engineers develop first tunable, chip-based ‘vortex microlaser’ and detector
Encoding information in twisting beams of light could break bandwidth bottleneck in optical communicationsCredit: University of Pennsylvania As computers get more powerful and connected, the...
Scientists discover mutation that enhances plant defense
Credit: Irene Serrano Sometimes scientists begin research and find exactly what they expected. Other times they discover something unexpected. Such was the case for a...
Probing materials at deep-Earth conditions to decipher Earth’s evolutionary tale
Learning how liquid silicates behave at these extreme temperatures and pressures has been a longstanding challenge in the geosciences.Credit: Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Far...
New study by Clemson scientists could pave way to cure of global parasite
Credit: College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina - Clemson University scientists have taken another step forward in their quest to find a cure for a...
What does drought mean for endangered California salmon?
Drought threatens salmon habitat, but strategic conservation efforts could keep essential streams flowingCredit: California Sea Grant Increased frequency and severity of droughts threatens California's endangered...
Graphene-reinforced carbon fiber may lead to affordable, stronger car materials
Credit: Margaret Kowalik and Adri van Duin / Penn State A new way of creating carbon fibers -- which are typically expensive to make --...
Smoking increases SARS-CoV-2 receptors in the lung
Credit: CSHL New research from CSHL scientists suggests that cigarette smoke spurs the lungs to make more ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme 2), the protein that the...
NASA finds heavy water vapor concentration rings eye of Cyclone Amphan
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Northern Indian Ocean on May 18, it gathered water vapor data that showed the intensity...
NASA finds a disorganized tropical storm Arthur near North Carolina coast
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite and radar imagery revealed that Tropical Storm Arthur remains poorly organized. Strongest storms, according to the...
Meeting of minds as Oden and Turing Institutes sign MOU
Two leading institutes join forces to advance data-centric engineering and scientific machine learning researchCredit: Oden Institute A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between...
Northern Italy — Official COVID-19 deaths underestimate the full impact of the pandemic
Credit: Image: Piccininni & Gutwasser / Charité According to a study by Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the northern Italian city of Nembro recorded more deaths...
HHU physicists: No evidence of an influence of dark matter on the force between nuclei
Physics: Publication in NatureCredit: HHU / Alighanbari, Hansen, Schiller The universe mainly consists of a novel substance and an energy form that are not yet...
NRL conducts first test of solar power satellite hardware in orbit
Credit: Image Courtesy of U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers launched PRAM, the Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module, aboard an Air...
Early Bird uses 10 times less energy to train deep neural networks
Novel training method could shrink carbon footprint for greener deep learningCredit: Y. Lin/Rice University HOUSTON -- (May 18, 2020) -- Rice University's Early Bird could...
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