A new look at deep-sea microbes
UD study looks at life inside and outside of seafloor hydrocarbon seepsCredit: Graphic by Jeffrey C. Chase Microbial cells are found in abundance in marine...
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AI enables efficiencies in quantum information processing
Credit: U.S. Army image ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- A new machine learning framework could pave the way for small, mobile quantum networks. Researchers from...
Study of giant ant heads using simple models may aid bio-inspired designs
Credit: Photo by Alex Wild. Researchers use a variety of modelling approaches to study form and function. By using a basic biomechanical model for studying...
Computing experts urge Supreme Court to narrowly interpret Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Group argues broad Interpretation could make some forms of computing research federal crimesCredit: Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery's US Technology Policy...
Hospital improves on-time administration of medication to Parkinson patients
A rigorous quality initiative involving the entire care team significantly improved on-time administration of levodopa and other medications, critical for patient wellbeing, report investigators in...
Is COVID-19 widening the gender gap in academic medicine?
Study finds fewer women publishing COVID-related papers, especially in early days of pandemicCredit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- A new study finds that fewer...
Born to be a cannibal: Genes for feeding behavior in mandarin fish identified
Credit: HZAU Some mandarin fish species (Sinipercidae) are pure fish-eaters, which feed exclusively on living juvenile fish - also of their own species. A research...
Surprisingly many peculiar long introns found in brain genes
Credit: MIPT Press Office In a recent study of genes involved in brain functioning, their previously unknown features have been uncovered by bioinformaticians from the...
Cosmic cataclysm allows precise test of general relativity
Credit: Giovanni Ceribella/MAGIC Collaboration In 2019, the MAGIC telescopes detected the first Gamma Ray Burst at very high energies. This was the most intense gamma-radiation...
Chinook salmon declines related to changes in freshwater conditions
Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service A new University of Alaska-led study provides the first evidence that declines in many of Alaska's chinook salmon populations...
NASA sees storms wrapping around Tropical Cyclone Cristina
Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson The analysis of Tropical Cyclone Cristina's cloud top temperatures revealed some bands of thunderstorms were developing and wrapping around the...
Insilico Medicine and Arctoris to collaborate on COVID-19 by combining robotics and AI
Insilico Medicine and Arctoris announced a technology partnership to jointly discover and profile new therapeutics against COVID-19 by combining robotics and AICredit: Insilico Thursday, 9th...
Unraveling the mystery of wheat herbicide tolerance
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Genetically speaking, the loaf of bread you stress-baked during the COVID-19 shutdown is more complex...
About half of health care workers positive for COVID-19 by serology have no symptoms
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center The IVY Research Network has completed initial studies evaluating the epidemiology of COVID-19 in health care workers and patients. Among...
Lead fallout from Notre Dame fire was likely overlooked
A ton of lead dust may have been deposited near the cathedralCredit: Interactive map by Jeremy Hinsdale/Earth Institute. Photos by Alexander van Geen. On April...