Code used to reduce quantum error in logic gates for first time
Error detection in logic gates opens path to further improvements in quantum computersCredit: University of Sydney Scientists at the University of Sydney have for the...
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UCI researcher awarded nearly $4 million to study neurological disorders including epilepsy
Credit: Geoff Abbott/UCI School of Medicine Irvine, CA - February 28, 2019 - University of California, Irvine School of Medicine researcher Geoff Abbott, PhD, has...
Goethe University co-ordinates mega-project on cybersecurity and data protection
European Commission signs CyberSec4Europe Grant AgreementCredit: Dettmar/Goethe University With a total grant amount of € 16 million, 'mega' is hardly an exaggerated designation for the...
New sanitation system halves healthcare associated infections and cuts costs by 75 percent
Bocconi University scholars calculated the savings produced by a sanitation methods that uses ecologically sustainable detergents containing spores of three Bacillus species, in a study...
Mindfulness could promote positive body image
Awareness of internal body signals can affect the way we see ourselves -- new study Making people more aware of their own internal body signals,...
Interactive surfaces enter a whole new dimension of flexibility
Researchers have developed a display that utilizes a flexible tube and liquid droplets inside it as a display materialCredit: Osaka University An "interactive surface" refers...
Researchers identify how metabolites target brain-homing immune cells to treat MS
The discovery could lead to novel, more specific, and more effective MS therapies and a better understanding of how the disease developsCredit: Carter Eitreim NEW...
Cell atlas of the aging lung
Credit: ©Helmholtz Zentrum München The lung is a highly complex organ in which a great number of very different cells have to work together to...
Actor, advocate LeVar Burton named 2019 Inamori Ethics Prize-winner
CLEVELAND (For release Thursday, Feb. 28, 9:30 a.m.)--LeVar Burton, a celebrated American actor, director, producer and writer for more than 40 years, is adding another...
Clues to Martian life found in Chilean desert
A trial NASA rover mission in the Mars-like Atacama desert has successfully recovered subterranean organisms -- strange, scattered, salt-resistant bacteria that could lead the search...
Psychiatry: Case notes indicate impending seclusion
Credit: Image: Psychiatric University Clinics Basel Using notes made by the attending healthcare professionals about psychiatric patients enables impending coercive measures to be predicted in...
Congenital heart defects vastly increase risk of heart problems later in life
An infant born with a relatively simple heart defect is far more likely to develop heart problems as an adult, researchers at the Stanford University...
Too-tight membrane keeps cells from splitting
Scientists uncover how one protein keeps conditions 'just right' so that cells can easily divide into two identical daughter cellsCredit: OIST Cells divide to grow...
Lehigh University computer science researcher earns NSF CAREER Award
Five-year grant will support work in safeguarding complex machine learning models that piggyback on less-than-trustworthy technologyCredit: Douglas Benedict for Lehigh University We live in the...
Higher hospital readmission rates for cardiac patients in Northern vs. Southern Ontario: Importance
Study suggests providing post-discharge transitional care may be key to reducing hospital readmissions, according to the Canadian Journal of CardiologyCredit: Canadian Journal of Cardiology Philadelphia,...
