Expanding on the fundamental principles of liquid movement
Fukuoka, Japan—From the rain drops rolling down your window, to the fluid running across a COVID rapid test, we cannot go a day without observing...
NEWS INDEX
New Health Blueprint maps healthier future for rural, underserved Southwest Virginia
A sweeping new Health Blueprint for Southwest Virginia highlights the grave health challenges that grip the rural region but also proposes solutions to help residents...
After hundreds of years, study confirms Bermuda now home to cownose rays
For hundreds of years, the whitespotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari) has been considered the only inshore stingray species in Bermuda, until now.Credit: Cecilia Hampton, FAU...
Scientists uncover promising treatment target for resistant brain cancer
For many patients with a deadly type of brain cancer called glioblastoma, chemotherapy resistance is a big problem.Credit: Clayton Metz/Virginia Tech For many patients with...
Chemist Julian West makes C&EN magazine’s ‘Talented 12’ list
HOUSTON – (May 20, 2024) – Rice University chemist Julian West is one of a dozen up-and-coming young scientists featured in Chemical & Engineering News’ (C&EN)...
Tricking the Brain’s inner GPS: Grid cells responses to the illusion of self-location
Dr. Hyuk-June Moon from the Bionics Research Center at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), in collaboration with Prof. Olaf Blanke’s team at...
Poor access to in-home nursing for medically complex children quantified
EMBARGOED UNTIL: 2:15 p.m. PT, Sunday, May 19, 2024Credit: ATS EMBARGOED UNTIL: 2:15 p.m. PT, Sunday, May 19, 2024 Session: Session A96 – Improving...
Extreme heat associated with children’s asthma hospital visits
EMBARGOED UNTIL: 2:15 p.m. PT, May 19, 2024 Credit: ATS EMBARGOED UNTIL: 2:15 p.m. PT, May 19, 2024 Session: A95 – Climate Change and...
World-first trial shows benefits of finding, treating undiagnosed asthma and COPD
Finding and treating people with undiagnosed asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) improved their health and reduced their healthcare visits for respiratory symptoms in...
Insilico Medicine introduces nach0: A one-stop LLM for chemical and biomedical tasks
In a new paper, researchers from clinical stage artificial intelligence (AI)-driven drug discovery company Insilico Medicine (“Insilico”), in collaboration with NVIDIA, present a new large...
Virginia Tech physicists propose path to faster, more flexible robots
In a May 15 paper released in the journal Physical Review Letters, Virginia Tech physicists revealed a microscopic phenomenon that could greatly improve the performance...
STAR sees a magnetic imprint on deconfined nuclear matter
Scientists have the first direct evidence that the powerful magnetic fields created in off-center collisions of atomic nuclei induce an electric current in “deconfined” nuclear matter. This...
Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses
The COVID-19 pandemic is over, but the virus that caused it is still here, sending thousands of people to the hospital each week and spinning...
Iso-propagation vortices: optical multiplexing for unprecedented information capacity
The future of optical communications just got brighter. In a groundbreaking development reported in Advanced Photonics, researchers from Nanjing University have introduced iso-propagation vortices (IPVs), a novel...
Researchers confirm scale matters in determining vulnerability of freshwater fish to climate changes
The silver chub isn’t considered sensitive to climate change on a national scale, but context matters. For example, if climate change sensitivity is evaluated in...
