Machine learning may help in early identification of severe sepsis
Credit: ATS ATS 2017, WASHINGTON, DC -- A machine-learning algorithm has the capability to identify hospitalized patients at risk for severe sepsis and septic shock...
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New theory predicts wetted area of droplets colliding with flat surface
Credit: Assistant Professor Yukihiro Yonemoto Japanese researchers have succeeded in deriving a theoretical formula that quantitatively predicts the wetting and spreading behavior of droplets that...
Water is surprisingly ordered on the nanoscale
Credit: © EPFL/Julia Jacobi Chair of Photomedicine - Laboratory for Fundamental BioPhotonic Nanometric-sized water drops are everywhere - in the air as droplets or aerosols,...
One-dimensional crystals for low-temperature thermoelectric cooling
Credit: Yoshihiko Okamoto Nagoya, Japan- Thermoelectric cooling is a solid-state refrigeration process where the heat in an electrically conductive material is transferred using the material's..
Volunteers help ANU find star that exploded 970 million years ago, predating the dinosaurs
Credit: ANU Online volunteers, including a woman from Belgium and a Scottish man, have helped astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) find a star...
Sorghum: Health food, sweetener and now, clothing dye
Credit: American Chemical Society Sorghum has long been a staple food in many parts of the world, but in the U.S., it's best known as...
Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research institute partners with Wiley
HOBOKEN, NJ - 24 May 2017 - John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb) and Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced today...
PolyU wins 3 ‘TechConnect Global Innovation Awards’ — the first and the only HK awardee
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The annual TechConnect World held in the US aims for supporting the development and commercialization of innovations. For years,...
NUS researchers create palm-size device for quick, effective treatment of hearing disorder
Credit: National University of Singapore A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel handheld device, known as CLiKX,...
Atlas of the human planet 2017 — how exposed are we to natural hazards?
One out of three people in the world is exposed to earthquakes, a number which almost doubled in the past 40 years. Around 1 billion...
Can parents’ tech obsessions contribute to a child’s bad behavior?
Loading video... Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Fatigue. Hunger. Boredom. Those are often on the list of reasons parents mention if their child...
KIT’s supercomputer is excellent in all respects
Credit: Photo: KIT The new supercomputer of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) not only is very fast, but also very economical. The high-performance computer ForHLR...
High voltage for tomorrow’s particle accelerator
The most well-known use of high voltage pulses is in electric fences on farms. However, particle accelerators in large-scale research facilities such as CERN in...
Three-dimensional graphene: Experiment at BESSY II shows that optical properties are tuneable
Credit: Nature Communications: 10.1038/ncomms14885 Carbon is a very versatile element. It not only forms diamonds, graphite, and coal, but can also take a planar form...
Using a genetic signature to overcome chemotherapy-resistant lung cancer
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - May 23, 2017 - Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) often respond to standard chemotherapy, only to develop drug...
