Survey completeness of a global citizen-science database of bird occurrence
Credit: Blythe Mettitt, courtesy Cornell Lab of Ornithology There are many shortfalls in knowledge of the world's biodiversity, and one of the most basic is...
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New portable DNA sequencer quickly and accurately diagnoses wheat viruses
Credit: John P. Fellers, Christian Webb, Madison C. Fellers, Jessica Shoup Rupp, and Erick De Wolf New Portable DNA Sequencer Quickly and Accurately Diagnoses Wheat...
UM student research tests ways to reduce errors in wildlife surveys
Credit: Kaitlyn Strickfaden, University of Montana research associate MISSOULA - Research led by a University of Montana undergraduate student to identify less error-prone methods for...
Using AI to better understand and model the earth system
International research team wins major grant to support work combining machine learning with physical models of atmosphere and land to improve climate modeling and methodsCredit:...
WPI researcher creating safer, more accurate way to detect prostate cancer
WPI Biomedical Engineer receives $1.8 Million NIH grant to build robotic system to find and monitor common and deadly cancerCredit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass....
Stingless bee species depend on a complex fungal community to survive
A report published in PLOS ONE describes key roles of various microorganisms in the development of the larvae of Scaptotrigona depilis. Researchers warn that this...
Study: Tradeoffs between commute time, safety
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Urban commuters may be less likely to encounter automobile accidents if they are willing to increase...
New drug-delivery technology promises efficient, targeted cancer treatment
Credit: Photo by PNNL PULLMAN, Wash. -- A precise and non-toxic treatment that targets lung cancer cells at the nanoscale is able to effectively kill...
NASA finds heavy rain potential in typhoon Bualoi over Marianas
Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Typhoon Bualoi was lashing the Marianas Islands in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean when NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and analyzed...
Los Alamos AI model wins flu forecasting challenge
'Dante' beat 23 others in predicting the timing, peak, and short-term intensity of the unfolding 2018-2019 flu season. Enhanced version takes aim at 2019-2020.Credit: Los...
Pushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
Systems 'learn' from novel dataset that captures how pushed objects move, to improve their physical interactions with new objectsCredit: Image courtesy of Maria Bauza, Ferran...
NASA imagery reveals Neoguri now extra-tropical
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Formerly a typhoon, now an extra-tropical storm, Neoguri has taken on more of...
IQSEC1 gene mutations cause new intellectual disability syndrome
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine It used to take several years or sometimes decades to unequivocally identify the genes that cause rare human syndromes that...
New organelle that helps prevent cancer discovered in our cells
Could lead to better treatments, spare patients ones that won't workCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have...
Q-suite motor assessment tool promising for evaluating Huntington’s disease
Having a test to measure subtle changes in motor ability in young childrenCredit: National Institute of Neurological Disorders Amsterdam, NL, October 22, 2019 - In...
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