Geography of childhood cancer in Switzerland studied
Credit: International Journal of Health Geographics, 2020 While cancer is rare in children, it is, nevertheless, the second most common cause of death during childhood...
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Clever new robot rover design conquers sand traps
Credit: hristopher Moore, Georgia Tech) RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Built with wheeled appendages that can be lifted, a new robot developed with U.S. Army...
Catnip’s chemical attractant is new twist on old family tradition
Credit: Alex Abair GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Catnip is most famous for its ability to launch felines into a euphoric frenzy, but the origin of its...
Satellites eye typhoon Vongfong landfall in the Philippines
Credit: Credit: NOAA/William Straka III, Univ. of Wisconsin Madison NASA and NOAA satellites have been providing forecasters with satellite data that showed the strength and...
New study to assess the efficacy of ivermectin against COVID-19
Clínica Universidad de Navarra and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health launch a clinical trial to determine the efficacy of ivermectin in reducing viral replication...
BladeSense research advances rotor blade health monitoring
UK Government-funded helicopter project yields promising resultsCredit: Airbus Helicopters in the UK Airbus Helicopters in the UK is exploring future activities to follow on from...
Coping after breast cancer
UD researchers study how fear of cancer recurrence impacts a couple's quality of lifeCredit: Illustration by Jeffrey Chase To recur means to take place again....
KIT procures new supercomputer
'Horeka' hybrid system expected to be among ten most powerful computers in Europe in 2021Credit: Graphics: SCC/KIT From the energy transition to new materials, from...
Digital health in the COVID-19 pandemic
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 13, 2020--Artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and other key digital technology applications will play a...
The carnivorous plant lifestyle is gene costly
Credit: (Picture: Dirk Becker and Sönke Scherzer / University of Würzburg) Plants can produce energy-rich biomass with the help of light, water and carbon dioxide....
Making quantum ‘waves’ in ultrathin materials
Study co-led by Berkeley Lab reveals how wavelike plasmons could power up a new class of sensing and photochemical technologies at the nanoscaleCredit: Felipe da...
Critical window for re-infection with HIV after stem cell transplantation
Credit: NIAID Some people with HIV need to undergo an allogeneic stem cell transplantation in order to treat different types of blood cancer. Most of...
Beads made of boa bones identified in lesser Antilles
The first identifications of Boa on Martinique, Basse-Terre and La Désirade islands point to the snake's significance for pre-Columbian AmerindiansCredit: Corentin Bochaton Today Boa snakes...
Unlocking the gate to the millisecond CT
Credit: Tohoku University Many will undergo a CT scan at some point in their lifetime - being slid in and out of a tunnel as...
Patients prefer their consent to share their data and to manage it digitally
Credit: Dovetail/WMG, University of Warwick A group of patients with diabetes were surveyed on their understanding of the consent process to have their medical data...
