Smile! Photos converted into 3D from any mobile device
Facebook researchers will demonstrate innovative end-to-end system for creating and viewing 3D photos at SIGGRAPH 2020Credit: Facebook CHICAGO--It's not an exaggeration -- many of us...
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Global pollution estimates reveal surprises, opportunity
Researchers' hybrid dataset includes satellite images, modeling and air samplesCredit: Martin Lab It is not unusual to come across headlines about pollution or global warming...
Scientists devise new ‘bar code’ method to identify critical cell types in the brain
Credit: Valdez Lab / Center for Translational Neuroscience / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- While the brain is composed of two types of cells, glia...
Study reveals key finding about microbiome of anticancer compound-producing marine invertebrate
Credit: Bill Baker, USF Could the cure for melanoma - the most dangerous type of skin cancer - be a compound derived from a marine...
X-rays size up protein structure at the ‘heart’ of COVID-19 virus
Credit: Jill Hemman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy A team of researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge and Argonne national laboratories has performed the...
USask medical researchers awarded $900,000 to help fight COVID-19
Credit: University of Saskatchewan/Kristen McEwen The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has awarded three University of Saskatchewan (USask) research teams a total of $900,000...
Tracking the spread of mosquito insecticide resistance across Africa
Credit: Penelope Hancock In a step toward better control of the mosquitoes that transmit malaria, researchers have mapped the patterns of insecticide resistance in Anopheles...
USask researchers to develop saliva-based COVID-19 home testing kit
Credit: University of Saskatchewan/David Stobbe University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers are part of two COVID-19-related projects awarded major federal funding today--one to develop a unique...
Researchers discover new boron-lanthanide nanostructure
Credit: Wang Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The discovery of carbon nanostructures like two-dimensional graphene and soccer ball-shaped buckyballs helped to launch a...
MicroCT reveals detailed head morphology of arthropod, Leanchoilia illecebrosa
Credit: Javier Ortega-Hernández and Yu Liu The Chengjiang biota in the Yunnan Province of China contains one of the most species-rich and well-preserved fossiliferous deposits...
Illinois professor proposes guide for developing common data science approaches
University of Illinois information sciences professor Victoria Stodden proposes a way to develop recognized data science processes for researchCredit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN,...
New study looks at post-COVID-19 emerging disease in children
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. (June 24, 2020) - In recent weeks, a multisystem hyperinflammatory condition has emerged in children in...
Race, rurality play prominently in Georgia areas hardest hit by COVID-19
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University While counties in populous metropolitan Atlanta had the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the initial weeks following...
Entos Pharmaceuticals announces selection of lead DNA vaccine candidates for COVID-19
Entos Pharmaceuticals announces selection of lead DNA vaccine candidates for COVID-19 and a $4.2 million award to move forward with phase I/II human trialsCredit: Michael...
Dangerous tick-borne bacterium extremely rare in New Jersey
The mystery behind the rise in spotted fever cases continuesCredit: Jim Occi/Rutgers University-New Brunswick There's some good news in New Jersey about a potentially deadly...