Fishing rod ‘selfie stick’ and scientific sleuthing turn up clues to extinct sea reptile
Skeleton high on a London museum wall -- mostly ignored for a century -- spurs a study finding that the creatures swam in seas from...
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Prellis Bio’s Externalized Human Immune System rapidly generates 300 SARS-CoV2 antibodies
Company pursues treatment and preventative therapies for COVID-19Credit: Prellis Biologics, Inc. HAYWARD, Calif. May 19th, 2020--Prellis Biologics, Inc. today announced that it has generated 300...
Depression symptoms linked to reduced cognitive control in people with autism
Credit: UC Davis Health According to a UC Davis study, adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and those with typical development show...
Determining the quantity and location of lipids in the brain
Credit: Photo by Della Perrone for the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Researchers at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at...
Protein shapes matter in Alzheimer’s research
Credit: Ashutosh Tiwari/Michigan Tech Sometimes proteins misfold. When that happens in the human brain, the pileup of misfolded proteins can lead to neurodegenerative diseases like...
Field courses boost student success, support STEM diversity efforts, study reveals
Hands-on field learning key to retention, success of underrepresented biology studentsCredit: Mickie Tang The challenge of diversifying STEM fields may get a boost from the...
Scientists use light to accelerate supercurrents, access forbidden light, quantum world
Credit: Image courtesy of Jigang Wang/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Scientists are using light waves to accelerate supercurrents and access the unique properties of...
MUSC researchers link gene mutation to autism behaviors
Credit: Sarah Pack/MUSC A collaboration between scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina and clinicians at the Greenwood Genetic Center has yielded new findings...
Statistical approach to COVID-19 clinical trials aims to accelerate drug approval process
Credit: By doomu Cambridge, Mass., May 18, 2020 - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have published a...
NASA examines tropical storm Arthur’s rainfall as it transitions
Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL When the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed over the western North Atlantic Ocean, it captured rainfall data on Tropical...
NASA-NOAA satellite sees Amphan’s eye obscured
Credit: NASA/NOAA/UWM-CIMISS, William Straka III Early on May 18, 2020, Tropical Cyclone Amphan was a Category 5 storm in the Northern Indian Ocean. On May...
Data science researchers receive over $1 million in grants
Seed funding from UC Davis IMPACT center will go toward high-impact, multidisciplinary researchCredit: UC Davis The UC Davis Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence...
Professor Christoph Keplinger brings new generation of robots to Germany
Soft Robotics -- artificial muscles that can heal themselves -- opens new perspectives for medicineCredit: University of Colorado Boulder The internationally renowned physicist and materials...
Electrons break rotational symmetry in exotic low-temp superconductor
Scientists previously observed this peculiar behavior in other materials whose ability to conduct electricity without energy loss cannot be explained by standard theoretical frameworksCredit: Brookhaven...
Continuously tracking fear response could improve mental health treatment
UH researcher develops method to track arousal from sweat, heart rate togetherCredit: University of Houston Assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering Rose Faghih is...
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