Smoking increases SARS-CoV-2 receptors in the lung
Credit: CSHL New research from CSHL scientists suggests that cigarette smoke spurs the lungs to make more ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme 2), the protein that the...
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NASA finds heavy water vapor concentration rings eye of Cyclone Amphan
Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Northern Indian Ocean on May 18, it gathered water vapor data that showed the intensity...
NASA finds a disorganized tropical storm Arthur near North Carolina coast
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite and radar imagery revealed that Tropical Storm Arthur remains poorly organized. Strongest storms, according to the...
Meeting of minds as Oden and Turing Institutes sign MOU
Two leading institutes join forces to advance data-centric engineering and scientific machine learning researchCredit: Oden Institute A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between...
Northern Italy — Official COVID-19 deaths underestimate the full impact of the pandemic
Credit: Image: Piccininni & Gutwasser / Charité According to a study by Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the northern Italian city of Nembro recorded more deaths...
HHU physicists: No evidence of an influence of dark matter on the force between nuclei
Physics: Publication in NatureCredit: HHU / Alighanbari, Hansen, Schiller The universe mainly consists of a novel substance and an energy form that are not yet...
NRL conducts first test of solar power satellite hardware in orbit
Credit: Image Courtesy of U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory engineers launched PRAM, the Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module, aboard an Air...
Early Bird uses 10 times less energy to train deep neural networks
Novel training method could shrink carbon footprint for greener deep learningCredit: Y. Lin/Rice University HOUSTON -- (May 18, 2020) -- Rice University's Early Bird could...
Cancer researchers locate drivers of tumor resistance
Credit: UT Health San Antonio Cancer biologists at the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, have identified important drivers that...
Physicists offer a new ‘spin’ on memory
A research team led by the University of Arizona reports a discovery that opens new possibilities in the development of spintronicsCredit: Weigang Wang, University of...
A new brick in the wall: Bacterial cell wall intermediate found
Credit: Sara Hernandez An accumulation of an unexpected intermediate of the peptidoglycan recycling pathway that is able to modulate the synthesis and structure of the...
Releasing molecular ‘brake’ kick-starts immune cell function
Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (May 18, 2020) -- The immune system's ability to marshal specialized cells to fight off infection...
Discovery of high-Chern-number and high-temperature Chern insulator states: to information highway
Credit: ©Science China Press Quantum Hall effect (QHE) plays an important role in materials science and precision measurement. Due to the dissipationless edge states, QHE...
Stitching together the structure of the DNA replication toolbelt
Credit: © 2020 Simply Science Illustration The molecular machinery responsible for replicating human DNA has come into sharper focus and deepened understanding of this fundamental...
PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors treatment in lung cancer: Brightness and challenge
Credit: ©Science China Press Lung Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for an estimated 2.09 million new cases in 2018 according to...