Researchers to study drivers of asthma in Puerto Rico
Credit: National Jewish Health Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), National Jewish Health and Centro de Neumología Pediátrica in Puerto Rico have...
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New website maps CA power plants, emissions, people
Credit: PSE Healthy Energy OAKLAND, CA - Which power plant in your region is the worst polluter and who lives nearby? A new interactive, map-based...
Kansas State University biologist studies trauma survival differences between men, women
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- A person's sex hormones may play a role in trauma survival, according to a Kansas State University researcher...
Can artificial intelligence help victims of abuse to disclose traumatic testimony?
When children are victims of crimes, the legal testimony they provide is known as forensic interviews. However, since victims are often traumatized and potentially abused...
Scientists engineer a functional optical lens out of 2D materials
Credit: Liu et al., Nano Letters, 2018 November 13, 2018 In optics, the era of glass lenses may be waning. In recent years, physicists and...
NUS innovation opens doors to smaller, cheaper and long-lasting IoT sensors
Credit: National University of Singapore Researchers from the Green IC research group at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have invented a low-cost 'battery-less' wake-up...
Chinese fusion tool pushes past 100 million degrees
Credit: EAST Team The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), nicknamed the "Chinese artificial sun", achieved an electron temperature of over 100 million degrees in its...
Southwest Research Institute’s Terrence Alger awarded for engine innovations
Credit: TAMEST Terrence F. Alger II, Ph.D., of the Southwest Research Institute is the recipient of the 2019 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Technology...
Police officers ‘open up’ about body-worn cameras in a post-ferguson era
Credit: Florida Atlantic University The fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, generated political and media backlash that continues to...
Quantum science turns social
Credit: Robert Heck, AU Researchers developed a versatile remote gaming interface that allowed external experts as well as hundreds of citizen scientists all over the...
Photo recognition that keeps personal interests private
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - From just a quick snapshot on a smartphone, image recognition technology can provide a wealth of information to help...
Physicists discover new way of resonance tuning for nonlinear optics
A research team from ITMO University and the Australian National University has discovered that different metasurfaces exhibit the same behavior provided a symmetry breaking is...
Towards a Unified Soil Mechanics Theory. The use of effective stresses in unsaturated soils
When Karl von Terzaghi applied the effective stress principle in the soil mechanics theory, the strength and volumetric behavior of saturated soils could be clearly...
Salmon are shrinking and it shows in their genes
Male salmon are maturing earlier and becoming smaller, and it shows in their genes. This was the discovery of a study that examined scale samples...
Next step on the path towards an efficient biofuel cell
Credit: RUB, Marquard Fuel cells that work with the enzyme hydrogenase are, in principle, just as efficient as those that contain the expensive precious metal...
