New Rice research projects aim to ‘transform’ future of advanced materials
HOUSTON – (July 8, 2024) – Advanced materials are an important point of innovation for areas critical to national security such as energy, defense, aeronautics...
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Improving safety of AI research for engineering biology
Hazards posed by using data-centric methods to engineer biology, have been identified by experts at the University of Bristol with the aim of making future...
Unlocking the frost-defying secrets of the white water lily
In a recent discovery poised to enhance agricultural resilience, scientists have demystified the elaborate cold resistance mechanisms of the white water lily—a plant that flourishes...
New microscopes available as public resource draw a crowd to Woods Hole
WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- It sounds like science fiction, what today’s microscopes invite us to see. That may explain why nearly 100 excited people, a...
NTU Singapore scientists develop ‘band-aid’ that measures glucose levels in sweat using microlaser technology
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a ‘band-aid’ or plaster that measures body ‘biomarkers’ that can indicate health or disease through...
Virginia Tech researchers work to create biodegradable bioplastics from food waste
Extraordinary amounts of energy, water, and capital are put into food systems. However, anywhere from 30 to 40 percent of the food that is produced...
AJPH study shows that permit to purchase laws are a promising avenue to reduce suicides in young adults
In 2020, suicide ranked as the third leading cause of death for adults aged 18 to 20 years in the United States. Firearms were implicated...
Companies that mitigate climate change reduce their cost of capital
Fukuoka, Japan —The climate crisis is hitting home with more frequent extreme weather events. Companies, particularly those in high-emission industries, are major contributors to global...
Case Western Reserve University receives $1.5M grant from Foundation Fighting Blindness to test possible new treatment for inherited retinal disease
CLEVELAND—There’s only one U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved therapy for an inherited retinal disease, and dozens of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) genes for which no therapy...
UNC researchers identify potential treatment for Angelman syndrome
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Angelman syndrome is a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in the maternally-inherited UBE3A gene and characterized by poor muscle control,...
Zero-emissions trucks alone won’t cut it: Early retirement of polluters key to California’s emission goals
California must implement early retirement for existing heavy-duty vehicles as well as introducing zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) to protect Black, Latino and vulnerable communities and hit...
Visualizing short-lived intermediate compounds produced during chemical reactions
Immobilizing small synthetic molecules inside protein crystals proves to be a promising avenue for studying intermediate compounds formed during chemical reactions, report scientists from Tokyo...
Migrating starlings are no copycats
Young, naïve starlings are looking for their wintering grounds independently of experienced conspecifics. Starlings are highly social birds throughout the year, but this does not...
Partially-hiding functional encryption for degree-2 polynomials with fine-grained access control
Functional Encryption overcomes all-or-nothing limitation of traditional public key encryption. However, there are still very few works that combine access control and function evaluation with...
Survey on the fusion of point clouds and images for environmental object detection
In the field of digital simulation technology applications, especially in the development of autonomous driving, object detection is a crucial component. It involves the perception...
