New technique lays foundation for regenerative cardiac therapies
Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 6, 2019) -- Scientists have devised a technique to sort out which heart cells can...
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AI learns to design
AI agents imitate engineers to construct effective new designs using visual cues like humans doCredit: Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering PITTSBURGH--Trained AI agents can...
Not so quiet, please
UC Riverside mouse study finds early exposure to sounds can address hypersensitivity to noise associated with Fragile X SyndromeCredit: L. Bose RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A...
AI for longevity and longevity policy and governance summits at King’s College London
The biogerontology research foundation announces its strategic support of two longevity-themed summits being held at King's College London on Nov. 12, 2019Credit: Longevity International UK...
Flatland light
Researchers create rewritable optical components for 2D light wavesCredit: Harvard SEAS In 1884, a schoolmaster and theologian named Edwin Abbott wrote a novella called Flatland,...
Hospital disinfectants struggling to kill C. diff bacteria colonies
Clorox comes close, but none completely eliminates superbugCredit: University of Houston The deadly and notoriously stubborn superbug, Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), is putting up a...
UCLouvain researcher makes the heart of Mars speak
Credit: UCLouvain For 20 years, Véronique Dehant, a space scientist at University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has been working on...
Time for a nuclear clock
UD's Safronova and collaborators win prestigious 'Synergy Grant' for development of new technology and fundamental physicsCredit: Illustration by Jeffrey C. Chase The atomic clocks that...
NASA-NOAA satellite finds super typhoon Halong finally weakening
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) / NOAA Super Typhoon Halong has finally peaked in intensity and is now...
Newly formed tropical storm Nakri seen by NASA-NOAA satellite
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) / NOAA NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the South China Sea and...
NASA-NOAA satellite finds tropical Cyclone Maha weakening
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northern Indian Ocean and provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center with a view...
132 grams to communicate with Mars
Credit: UCLouvain Dust storms, ionising cosmic radiation, extreme cold at night ... Mars is not very hospitable! It's for these extreme conditions that the research...
NSF grant provides next step for assistive walking exoskeletons
Credit: Tyler Henderson To understand, model and optimize the comfort of lower limb robotic exoskeletons, researchers in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering have...
Assaf Naor receives Ostrowski Prize in Higher Mathematics
Credit: © Simons Foundation The Czech-Israeli mathematician Assaf Naor has been awarded the international Ostrowski Prize in Higher Mathematics 2019. The Ostrowski Prize is worth...
Research aims to make technologies for controlling blood sugar more accessible
Project is focused on improved quality of life for senior citizensCredit: Rensselaer TROY, N.Y. -- The rise of continuous blood glucose monitor and insulin pump...
