Keeping guns away from potential mass shooters
Credit: Photo by Derwin Edwards from Pexels EAST LANSING, Mich. - The United States currently averages 20 mass shootings per year. Researchers from Michigan State...
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NASA finds wind shear affected new Tropical Cyclone 09S
Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Cyclone 09S formed on Jan. 22 in the Southern Indian Ocean despite being affected by vertical wind shear and one day...
AJR researchers take step toward automating thyroid cancer triage
Team develops quantitative framework to sonographically differentiate thyroid nodules at levels comparable to expert radiologists--a big step towards automated triage of thyroid cancerCredit: American Journal...
ACM signs new open-access agreements with four leading universities
New ACM open publishing model promises to accelerate ACM's transition to full open accessCredit: ACM ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, entered into transformative open...
Scientists invent a new method of generating intense short UV vortices
Credit: Skoltech An international group of scientists, including Skoltech Professor Sergey Rykovanov, has found a way to generate intense "twisted" pulses. The vortices discovered by...
New study to examine impact of environmental exposure on breast cancer risk in young women
UMass Amherst cancer epidemiologist awarded National Institutes of Health grantCredit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst cancer epidemiologist has received a $462,000 grant from...
Researchers uncover mechanism for how common gene therapy vectors enter cells
Identification of GPR108 as 'lock' for adeno-associated virus vector (AAV) is crucial to this emerging novel class of genetic medicine and may provide framework for...
Quantum experiments explore power of light for communications, computing
Credit: Christopher Tison and Michael Fanto/Air Force Research Laboratory. A team from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has conducted a series of...
Plane travel destroys polar bear habitat
Arctic researchers want you to know that each metric ton of CO2 causes a loss of 3 m2 of September sea-ice areaCredit: Photo: Lis Allaart...
New understanding of condensation could lead to better power plant condenser, de-icing materials
Credit: Images courtesy Nenad Miljkovic CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- For decades, it's been understood that water repellency is needed for surfaces to shed condensation buildup -...
How we learn is a quantum-like manner!
Credit: ILLUSTRATION BY HOLLY WILDER/USC Imagine that you met a charming girl in school. She is an excellent student who concerns about the world welfare...
The easy route the easy way: New chip calculates the shortest distance in an instant
Scientists have developed the world's first fully coupled AI chip that can solve the traveling salesman problem for 22 cities instantly, something that would take...
Large marine parks can save sharks from overfishing threat
Credit: Andy Mann 'No-take' marine reserves - where fishing is banned - can reverse the decline in the world's coral reef shark populations caused by...
Immune system cells contribute to the invading capacity of brain tumours
Credit: INc-UAB In a study published in Brain Communications, a new Open Access publication of the well-known journal Brain, the team led by Carlos Barcia,...
Scanning system in sperm may control rate of human evolution
Credit: Cell Press Maturing sperm cells turn on most of their genes, not to follow their genetic instructions like normal, but instead to repair DNA...
