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UrduScientists have for the first time shown that it is possible to detect the propagation of seismic waves on the seafloor using submarine telecommunications cables. According to their observations, this existing infrastructure could be used to detect earthquakes, as well…
Month: December 2019
NASA’s Webb telescope to search for young brown dwarfs and rogue planets
How small are the smallest celestial objects that form like stars, but don’t produce their own light? How common are they compared to full-fledged stars? How about “rogue planets,” which formed around stars before being tossed into interstellar space? When…
Pattern of heavy alcohol drinking may damage heart tissue
Journal of the American Heart Association report
New NASA-funded CubeSat poised to take Earth’s temperature from space
All of a sudden a tiny NASA-funded satellite, one of many passengers aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, shot into the sky on a mission to prove its new technology could change the way we measure Earth, and eventually, the Moon.…
NASA’s GISMO instrument maps inner Milky Way, sees cosmic ‘candy cane’
A feature resembling a candy cane appears at the center of this colorful composite image of our Milky Way galaxy’s central zone. But this is no cosmic confection. It spans 190 light-years and is one of a set of long,…
Recent screening rose among people under 50 after release of new colorectal guidelines
Increase was unique to ages 45 to 49
Paper-based test could diagnose Lyme disease at early stages
After a day hiking in the forest, the last thing a person wants to discover is a tick burrowing into their skin. Days after plucking off the bloodsucking insect, the hiker might develop a rash resembling a bull’s-eye, a tell-tale…
Study: Human management helps rare plants, butterflies survive hurricane
A new study from North Carolina State University shows that ongoing habitat management could help prevent hurricane-driven extinctions. The study found that a rare Florida plant, the pineland croton, weathered the damage from Hurricane Irma better in plots that were…
‘Like a video game with health points,’ energy budgets explain evolutionary body size
Budgeting resources isn’t just a problem for humans preparing a holiday dinner, or squirrels storing up nuts for the winter. A new model of how animals budget their energy sheds light on how they live and explains why they tend…
$20M gift from Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation to fund innovative research
A $20M gift to U-M from the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation aims to accelerate the commercialization of life-saving therapies.
Congressional Task Force Report: Black Youth Suicide Rates Rising, Defying Historic Trends
Titled “Ring the Alarm: the Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America,” the Task Force report includes a research section summarizing the current state of studies about Black youth, suicide and suicidal behaviors.
The Big Questions: Josh Frieman on Dark Energy
The Big Questions series features perspectives from the five recipients of the Department of Energy Office of Science’s 2019 Distinguished Scientists Fellows Award describing their research and what they plan to do with the award. Josh Frieman is the division head of particle physics at Fermilab.
Researchers find a harder border between the UK and Ireland is seen as a challenge to peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland and the border counties of Ireland
Researchers find that the revised Withdrawal Agreement negotiated by Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears not to have wholly reassured people in the Central Border Region of Ireland / Northern Ireland.
Antonino Miceli: Then and Now
Antonino Miceli is the group leader of the Detectors Group in the X-ray Science Division of the Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, a senior fellow at the Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, and a senior scientist at the University of Chicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering.
Tip of the ICEBERG: Planetary scientists developing large-scale ‘imagery-computing superhighway’
Northern Arizona University assistant professor Mark Salvatore and doctoral student Helen Eifert are working on an NSF-funded project to analyze data across the frozen landscape of Antarctica, which will eventually help scientists produce detailed geologic maps of the Lower Colorado River Corridor.
LifeBridge Health Announces New Name for Bon Secours Hospital: Grace Medical Center
LifeBridge Health today announced a new name for Bon Secours Baltimore Hospital: Grace Medical Center.
$24 Million Partnership to Advance Next Generation Manufacturing Technologies in Kentucky
The project, Kentucky Advanced Partnership for Enhanced Robotics and Structures (or KAMPERS), will harness the collective research power of 40 multidisciplinary researchers from eight Kentucky universities and colleges. The grant will support the fundamental science needed to advance next generation manufacturing technologies, flexible electronics and robotics.
Youssef M. Marzouk: Then and Now
Youssef M. Marzouk is an associate professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-director of the MIT Center for Computational Engineering. He is also a core member of MIT’s Statistics and Data Science Center and Director of MIT’s Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory.
What are the top cybersecurity threats and trends you should watch out for in 2020?
Joseph Dalessandro, an expert and professor in information technology in Tulane University’s School of Professional Advancement, breaks down the top cybersecurity threats and trends in 2020. Link: https://news.tulane.edu/expert-files-spotlight/6996 Dalessandro predicts hackers will continue to focus on what works best and augment it with…
University of North Dakota student experiment aboard Blue Origin suborbital rocket deemed a success
A team of University of North Dakota’s Space Studies student researchers, called the “Dinonauts,” recently assisted with the successful launch into space and recovery of a research project, aboard Amazon Founder Jeff Bezo’s Blue Origin reusable launch vehicle “New Shepard.”
The launch and recovery took place on Wednesday Dec. 11 at the West Texas Launch Site near Van Horn.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY TRANSPLANT POLICY PRIORITIES AT CENTER OF BOLD NEW PROPOSED RULES
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today took bold steps in two proposed rules to increase the availability of organs for the 113,000 Americans waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant – 20 of whom die each day – and to strengthen support for Americans who choose to be living donors. Both proposed rules advance policy changes the American Society of Nephrology has long been advocating for and is strongly supportive of.
Hackensack University Medical Center Unveils “Compassion Cubby”
Hackensack Meridian Health Hackensack University Medical Center announced today the opening of the “Compassion Cubby”, which offers patients being discharged clean, donated clothing, if they need it.
4 Santa Approved Holiday Playlists From UK School of Music
The right soundtrack for the holiday season is a gift in and of itself. Music can set the mood, touch the soul, lift the spirit or bring about cheer whether hosting a dinner party, braving the crowds to shop for that special someone or wrapping gifts by an open fire.
Microscopic World Comes Alive During Nikon Small World Exhibit
See cellular images as distinct as abstract art, minerals appear as future urban landscapes, single-celled organisms of the microscopic netherworld, and much more from the 2019 Nikon Small World competition of photomicrography.
Stress or Depression During the Holidays? Best to “Cope Ahead”
Stress or Depression During the Holidays? Best to “Cope Ahead” The holidays can be a great source of stress – worrying about buying presents, financial stress, dreading certain family interactions, ruminating about the past or longing for loved ones that have…
Scientists discover how proteins form crystals that tile a microbe’s shell
Many microbes wear beautifully patterned crystalline shells. Now scientists have zoomed in on the very first step in microbial shell-building: nucleation, where squiggly proteins crystallize into sturdy building blocks. The results help explain how the shells assemble themselves so quickly.
Special Issue of Educational Researcher Examines the Nature and Consequences of Null Findings in Education Research
A new special issue of AERA’s peer reviewed journal Educational Researcher, titled “Randomized Controlled Trials Meet the Real World: The Nature and Consequences of Null Findings,” focuses on important questions raised by the prevalence of null findings—the absence of expected or measurable results—particularly in randomized control trials.
‘Locally grown’ broccoli looks, tastes better to consumers
In tests, consumers in upstate New York were willing to pay more for broccoli grown in New York when they knew where it came from, Cornell University researchers found.
Your New You, New Year’s Resolutions
-Gastroenterologist, Rosario Ligresti, MD, can explain how maintaining a healthy gut can change your life. https://www.hackensackumc.org/find-a-doctor/1235135229/ligresti/ -Chairmain of Hackensack University Medical Center’s Department of Podiatry, Morris Morin, MD, will get you walking in comfort with tips on on how to strengthen…
Local, Native Birds Declining Rapidly While Non-native, Invasive Species Thrive
When Israeli conservation scientists looked at trends of common bird populations over the last 15 years, they found that invasive bird species are thriving, and native ones are largely declining. They present the reasons for these changes, and flag the importance of strategies to mitigate the spread of non-native birds.
New ice river detected at Arctic glacier adds to rising seas
Geologists, examining the desolate Vavilov ice cap on the northern fringe of Siberia in the Arctic Circle, have for the first time observed rapid ice loss from an improbable new river of ice, according to new research in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
In Some Children with Autism, “Social” and “Visual” Neural Circuits Don’t Quite Connect
Researchers combined eye gaze research with brain scans to discover that in a common subtype of autism, in which ASD toddlers prefer images of geometric shapes over those of children playing, brain areas responsible for vision and attention are not controlled by social brain networks, and so social stimuli are ignored.
Patients with Acute Leukemia Who Are Treated with Common Therapy Have Increased Risk for Heart Failure
Patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who are treated with anthracyclines are at a heightened risk of heart failure—most often within one year of exposure to the chemotherapy treatment.
Winter Weather – The Dangers to Your Health
Joseph Underwood, M.D., chair of Emergency Medicine, Hackensack University Medical Center https://www.hackensackumc.org/2018/11/29/hackensack-university-medical-center-welcomes-joseph-underwood-m-d-as-chair-of-emergency-medicine-2/ Dr. Underwood is very well versed on every winter hazard from ice slips to heart attacks shoveling snow, frostbite, carbon monoxide poisonings, seasonal depression, flu and so much…
Researchers design floating turbine to harvest deep-ocean wind energy
The wind over deep-sea waters offers the potential to become one of the country’s largest renewable energy sources.
University of Texas at Dallas researcher Dr. Todd Griffith has spent years working on an offshore turbine design that can convert those deep-ocean winds into electricity. Recently, Griffith received a $3.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to take his technology to the next level. The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) award provides support for his team to design and build a prototype for a floating offshore wind turbine.
The new grant was part of $26 million in funding from ARPA-E for 13 projects to accelerate floating offshore wind turbine technologies through the Aerodynamic Turbines, Lighter and Afloat, with Nautical Technologies and Integrated Servo-Control (ATLANTIS) program.
Nova Southeastern University Names Dean of College of Computing & Engineering
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is pleased to announce that Meline Kevorkian, Ed.D., has been named the dean of its College of Computing and Engineering. She was named the interim dean in July 2018.
Aspirin-Like Compounds Could Treat Numerous Human Diseases
Boyce Thompson Institute researchers discover 95 potential new human protein targets for salicylate compounds and provide a roadmap for future drug development against dozens of diseases.
And then there was light
New research from Washington University in St. Louis provides insight into how proteins called phytochromes sense light and contribute to how plants grow. Biologists used sophisticated techniques to structurally define the sequence of events that support the transition between light- and dark-adapted states.
Neuroscientists reveal the basis of confirmation bias
Neuroscientists at Virginia Tech, University College London, and the University of London revealed brain mechanisms that underlie confirmation bias — a phenomenon where people strongly favor information that reinforces existing opinions over contradictory ones.
The study, published this week in Nature Neuroscience, provides insight into a fundamental property of belief formation that has been documented by psychologists and economists, as well as in popular literature, including George Orwell’s “1984.”
FSU researchers offer ideas for New Year’s resolutions
By: Bill Wellock | Published: December 17, 2019 | 12:37 pm | SHARE: Setting New Year’s resolutions can be a frustrating proposition. It’s disheartening to look back at old resolutions to see they’ve failed to take hold yet again or to struggle creating a new, exciting idea for self-improvement.Let science give you some help.
Climate change legislation, media coverage drives oil companies’ ad spending, study finds
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Major oil corporations tend to spend the most money on advertising and promotional campaigns at moments when they face negative media coverage and/or the threat of increased federal regulation, a new study finds. Robert Brulle,…
Dense breast notifications are having little impact
FDA should address potential unintended consequences of the notifications before implementing them
Acute leukemia patients treated with common therapy have increased risk for heart failure
Team of researchers, led by Penn Medicine experts, developed risk score to identify high risk patients
Zebrafish ‘avatars’ can help decide who should receive radiotherapy treatment
Radiotherapy can effectively reduce or even eliminate some tumours; others, however, show enduring resistance. Considering the potentially harmful side effects of radiotherapy, clinicians agree that it is paramount to be able to determine if a patient will benefit from radiotherapy…
Skin cancer mystery revealed in yin and yang protein
XSEDE’s Stampede2, bridges speed skin cancer research
Researchers awarded $3.1 million to address vaping epidemic among youth
As e-cigarette use by young people reaches epidemic proportions, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have received a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct the first-ever assessment on the…
Research adds new twist to fight against autoimmune diseases
Study in Nature Immunology finds new drivers of destructive inflammation
New cellulose-based air filter offers cost-effective low resistance
Student design wins award
Donkeys are natural heat lovers and prefer Bethlehem to Britain
We might associate donkeys with Christmas, but new research from the University of Portsmouth shows the animals are keener on hotter periods of the year. Donkeys, it seems, love sun and warmth. That’s the finding of the first study to…
First US study shows strong results for procedure to treat knee pain from OA
Ari Isaacson, M.D., director of clinical research in the UNC School of Medicine’s department of radiology, led a pilot study to investigate the effectiveness of using genicular artery embolization for long-term treatment of osteoarthritis knee pain