Brain network mechanism causing spatial memory impairment revealed
Credit: UCI School of Medicine Irvine, CA - July 21, 2020 - Patients with Alzheimer's disease frequently suffer from spatial memory loss, such as no...
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While birds chirp, plasma shouldn’t: New insight could advance fusion energy
Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have furthered understanding of...
New $25-million center to advance quantum science and engineering
Credit: CU Boulder The National Science Foundation announced this week that CU Boulder will receive a $25 million award to launch a new quantum science...
Scientists publish findings from 1st statewide COVID-19 random sample study in US
Credit: Photos by Liz Kaye, Indiana University INDIANAPOLIS -- The results of the first statewide random sample study in the United States to measure the...
Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus
Is safer to work with, can aid efforts to find drugs, vaccinesCredit: Matt Miller Airborne and potentially deadly, the virus that causes COVID-19 can only...
Leukemia drug shows the potential to treat aggressive pediatric brain câncer
When tested in vitro, arsenic trioxide killed tumor cells and prevented the formation of new colonies. This leukemia drug also boosted the effect of radiation...
Spider monkey groups as collective computers
Credit: Sandra E. Smith Aguilar The wild spider monkeys living in a protected area near Punta Laguna, Mexico, collectively figure out good ways to divide...
Russian scientists identified energy storage mechanism of sodium-ion battery anode
Credit: Zoia V.Bobyleva et al./Electrochimica Acta Scientists from Skoltech and Moscow State University (MSU) identified the type of electrochemical reaction associated with charge storage in...
Postdoc pushes backward physics to fore
Postdoctoral Prize winner Wenliang "Bill" Li won the 2020 JSA Postdoctoral Prize to run experiments that will examine proton structure from a lesser-studied perspectiveCredit: Wenliang...
No single sign or symptom is sufficient to rule in or rule out community acquired pneumonia
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM DES PLAINES, IL -- While the history and physical examination is important, only...
Freeze-framing the shape-shifting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein
Cryogenic electron microscopy captures the spike in its 'before' and 'after' shapesCredit: Image created with Molecular Maya by Jonathan Khao, PhD and Gaël McGill, PhD,...
Concordian co-leads effort to see future of AI from an Indigenous perspective
A collaborative position paper challenges long-held assumptions about Western approaches to technologyCredit: Concordia University In the late winter and spring of 2019, a group of...
Researchers develop a portable blood ammonia detector
Credit: Thomas Veltman Seated around the dinner table, faculty affiliated with Stanford ChEM-H - one of Stanford University's interdisciplinary institutes - spoke one-by-one, pitching ideas...
Silver-plated gold nanostars detect early cancer biomarkers
New optical sensing platform can detect genomic cancer biomarkers directly in patient tissuesCredit: Tuan Vo-Dinh, Duke University Biomedical engineers at Duke University have engineered a...
Tropical Storm Douglas organizing in NASA infrared imagery
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Depression 8E developed on July 20 and quickly organized into a tropical storm. Infrared NASA satellite imagery revealed that Tropical Storm...