The world’s fastest film camera: When light practically stands still
Forget high-speed cameras capturing 100 000 images per second. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has developed a camera that can film at...
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The swollen colon — cause of chronic inflammation discovered
Credit: Mainz University Medical Center Researchers at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz...
AI-based smartphone application can predict user’s health risks
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed artificial intelligence (AI)-based data analysis methods used in a smartphone application of Odum Ltd. The application can...
Harvard & UT researchers propose systems connection in acupuncture & 21st century medicine
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 28, 2017 - Harvard University's renown fascia researcher Helene Langevin, MD, and co-author Rosa Schnyer,...
$2.4 million grant funds new new Biomedical Big Data to Knowledge Training Program
A new $2.4-million program for graduate students seeking to contribute to breakthrough discoveries in medicine and biology has been established at Penn State University with...
WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction established at Weill Cornell Medicine
NEW YORK (April 28, 2017) - Weill Cornell Medicine today announced a gift made by WorldQuant, LLC ("WorldQuant") and Igor Tulchinsky that will further realize...
A new study revises the development and evolutionary origin of the vertebrate brain
Credit: © Universidad de Murcia A study recently published in PLOS Biology provides information that substantially changes the prevailing idea about the brain formation process...
JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting being held May 20-25 in Chiba, Japan
WASHINGTON, DC - Discover the latest in Earth and space science research at the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017 taking place May 20-25 at the Makuhari...
Thin layers of water hold promise for the energy storage of the future
Credit: Veronica Augustyn and James LeBeau Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that a material which incorporates atomically thin layers of water is...
China builds world’s largest kinase-based whole-cell screening library
After five years of hard work, China has completed the world's largest kinase-based whole-cell screening library for high-throughput drug assay. The cell library is located...
New appetite control mechanism found in brain
Credit: Kazuyoshi Ukena A newly discovered molecule increases appetite during fasting -- and decreases it during gorging. The neuron-exciting protein, named NPGL - apparently aims...
ICCP director Axel Timmermann receives Milutin Milankovic Medal
Credit: ICCP Pusan National University's Distinguished Professor Axel Timmermann and Director of the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP), has been awarded the 2017 Milutin...
Mapping the edge of reality
Australian and German researchers have collaborated to develop a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical notions of causality. Dr Alberto Peruzzo from RMIT...
New Singapore research center for big data analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Loading video... Credit: NTU Singapore Those without knowledge of computer programming could soon design their own games and applications using a new edutainment software being...
A material inspired by a sea worm changes according to the environment
Credit: Allison Dougherty The gelatinous jaw of a sea worm, which becomes hard or flexible depending on the environment around it, has inspired researchers at...
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