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UrduResearchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have partnered up with engineers from Corning Inc., U.S., and T8, Russia, and developed a system for high-throughput data transfer over great distances without the need for signal repeating along the…
Month: December 2019
Chemists glimpse the fleeting ‘transition state’ of a reaction
New technique for observing reaction products offers insights into the chemical mechanisms that formed them
Tiny shells reveal waters off California are acidifying twice as fast as the global ocean
In first-of-its-kind research, NOAA scientists and academic partners used 100 years of microscopic shells to show that the coastal waters off California are acidifying twice as fast as the global ocean average — with the seafood supply in the crosshairs.…
Carbon cocoons surround growing galaxies
ALMA spots earliest environment pollution in the universe
New laser technique to be developed to identify and track disease
Researchers at King’s College London and the University of Southern Denmark have received a research contract of £750,000 to investigate the use of laser light in animal research. They plan to develop a laser technique that will help establish a…
Standard of care chemoradiation for Stage III NSCLC is superior to two tested alternatives
NRG Oncology Trial shows that standard of care chemoradiation for Stage III non-small cell lung cancer is superior to two tested alternatives
Free tool simplifies cancer research
Every cell contains a vast number of proteins, each of which has a specific function, for example as a receptor for another molecule or an enzyme that catalyses chemical reactions. Disorders of such mechanisms can seriously affect a cell and…
NOAA-NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite views New South Wales fires raging on
NOAA-NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite flew over the New South Wales fires in Australia on December 16, 2019 and found devastation from the ongoing fires. The New South Wales Rural Fire Service is reporting 96 fires are burning and to date…
Excerpts from an unfinished manuscript by Gloria Naylor published for the first time
The largely unknown manuscript of ‘Sapphira Wade’ is a draft of the opening chapter of a prequel to Naylor’s critically-acclaimed novel Mama Day
How minds make meaning
When we hear the phrase ‘a pink banana’, we can understand what it means and form the intended thought – even though bananas are typically yellow. This is because we compose the meanings of separate words into a new whole.…
Simple test could prevent fluoride-related disease
Method uses synthetic biology to detect dangerous levels of fluoride in drinking water
A flaky option boosts organic solar cells
An inexpensive material, made from tungsten disulfide flakes just a few atoms thick, has helped to improve the performance of organic solar cells1. The discovery by KAUST researchers could be an important step toward bringing these photovoltaic cells into wider…
Researchers make robots from self-folding kirigami materials
Researchers have demonstrated how kirigami-inspired techniques allow them to design thin sheets of material that automatically reconfigure into new two-dimensional (2D) shapes and three-dimensional (3D) structures in response to environmental stimuli. The researchers created a variety of robotic devices as…
Study examines causes of death in US breast cancer survivors
Survival rates for patients with breast cancer have improved significantly in the last four decades, and many patients will eventually die from non-cancer-related causes. Researchers recently conducted the largest population-based long-term retrospective analysis of non-cancer causes of death among patients…
Heart-healthy diets are naturally low in dietary cholesterol and can help to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke
DALLAS, Dec. 16, 2019 — Reducing dietary cholesterol by focusing on an overall heart-healthy dietary pattern that replaces saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats remains good advice for keeping artery-clogging LDL cholesterol levels healthy. Such dietary patterns are naturally low in…
New health insurance insights
MIT economists analyze how patients and health care providers value Medicaid.
Personalized medicine for atrial fibrillation
Cardiac electric activity can be used to predict individual progression of atrial fibrillation
University of Tartu researchers are developing translation program with Mozilla Firefox
Reading about the project from English media, you will learn that it involves a machine translation programme (The Bergamot Project; see browser.mt ) for open-source web browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, the largest difference with, e.g., Google Translation being its…
The uncertain role of natural gas in the transition to clean energy
MIT study finds that challenges in measuring and mitigating leakage of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, prove pivotal
Southern white rhinos are threatened by incest and habitat fragmentation
Targeted measures can help to avert this danger
Opioid overdose risk factors for teens, college-aged youth same as adults
Diagnoses of mental health and substance use disorders associated with 3 times higher odds of overdose
More efficient risk assessment for nanomaterials
UFZ researchers analyse biological mechanisms of action and identify biomarkers
Super-resolution photoacoustic microscopy finds clogged blood vessels
200 years ago, a doctor from France used a stethoscope for the first time and countless efforts to observe human body have been made since then. Up to now, the best tool that provides anatomical, functional, and molecular information of…
New platform to help SMEs get started with cyber-physical systems
Small and medium-sized enterprises need better opportunities to exploit the benefits of computer-based models for cyber-physical systems; this is the objective of a new, large-scale, pan-European development project headed by Aarhus University
Zooming in on brain circuits allows researchers to stop seizure activity
WASHINGTON — A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found, in animal models, that they can “switch off” epileptic seizures. The findings, published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ), provide the…
Exploring associations between ultraprocessed food consumption, type 2 diabetes
What The Study Did: Associations between consumption of ultraprocessed foods and risk of type 2 diabetes were explored among a large group of participants in a web-based study cohort in France. Ultraprocessed foods generally contain food additives and have longer…
New estimates of neonatal abstinence syndrome, associated costs
What The Study Did: Neonatal abstinence syndrome is withdrawal that happens in infants who were exposed to opioids in utero during pregnancy. This study gives new national estimates of neonatal abstinence syndrome and associated health care costs. To access the…
Opioid prescribing patterns, overdose risk in teens, young adults
What The Study Did: Researchers used a private insurance claims database in the U.S. to examine opioid prescribing patterns and how they were associated with overdose risk among 2.7 million adolescents and young adults without cancer. To access the embargoed…
Review of studies on cigarette smoking, multiple sclerosis
What The Study Did: Researchers conducted a literature review of studies to summarize outcomes in patients with multiple sclerosis who smoke cigarettes and who are exposed to smoke. To access the embargoed study: Visit our For The Media website at…
Plastic biosensor finds sweet success
An electronic biosensor powered using the glucose in bodily fluids has been developed by KAUST researchers. The device pairs an electron-transporting polymer with an enzyme that extracts electrons from its reaction with glucose to drive its circuitry. The plastic biosensor…
Researchers explore factors affecting money management skills in multiple sclerosis
Kessler Foundation research team identifies executive dysfunction and depression as factors affecting the ability of a subsample of individuals with multiple sclerosis to manage money efficiently
Simple tool shows life expectancy after dementia diagnosis
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and from the Netherlands have developed a simple tool that shows the survival probability of a person with dementia disease over three years. This, they hope, will facilitate dialogue with the most seriously affected and help…
London researchers first in world to use new device for feeding tube insertion
PUMA-G System could improve patient safety and reduce cost of health services
Physics of Living Systems: How cells muster and march out
Many of the cell types in our bodies are constantly on the move. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich physicists have developed a mathematical model that describes, for the first time, how single-cell migration can coalesce into coordinated movements of cohorts of…
Consumption of chili pepper cuts down the risk of death from a heart or cerebral attack
An Italian study, conducted on twenty-three thousand people and published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, shows that regular consumption of this spice is linked to a reduction of death risk for cardiac and cerebrovascular causes
Collective memory shapes the construction of personal memories
In the last century, French sociologist Maurice Halbwachs declared that personal memories are influenced by their social contexts. From this perspective, the memory function of individuals cannot be understood without taking into account the group to which they belong and…
Combination of chemo and diabetes drugs shows potential for treating Ewing sarcoma
Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive tumor that commonly affects bones in adolescents and young adults, is diagnosed in about 225 American children and teens every year, accounting for about 1 percent of pediatric cancers. Although Ewing sarcoma has been studied for…
New tool uses AI to flag fake news for media fact-checkers
A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool could help social media networks and news organizations weed out false stories. The tool, developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo, uses deep-learning AI algorithms to determine if claims made in posts or…
Oil-catching sponge could soak up residue from offshore drilling
Drilling and fracking for oil under the seabed produces 100 billion barrels of oil-contaminated wastewater every year by releasing tiny oil droplets into surrounding water. Most efforts to remove oil from water focus on removing large oil slicks from industrial…
Cold infections may be less frequent in people with the flu
People were less likely to catch either influenza or a common cold-causing rhinovirus if they were already infected with the other virus, a new study by scientists from the Medical Research Council-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research has found.…
Big step in producing carbon-neutral fuel: Silver diphosphide
A new chemical process described in the journal Nature Communications does in the lab what trees do in nature – it converts carbon dioxide into usable chemicals or fuels. This new, carbon-neutral process, created by researchers at Wake Forest University,…
$1M Schmidt Futures grant awarded to accelerate computer modeling of the cosmos at IAS
James M. Stone, professor of computational astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study, heads IAS project on the Dynamics of Neutron Star Mergers, Star & Planet Formation, and the Interstellar Medium
Wayne State to enhance cybersecurity of chemical process control systems
DETROIT – Smart manufacturing processes are becoming more automated with the help of algorithms that aim to boost profits, reduce resource use and decrease human error. In industries using chemical reactions, separation and transport, these smart manufacturing processes are expected…
All roads lead to migraine
An experimental human model of migraine found redundant molecular pathways mediating migraine attacks and their clinical features
Study exposes surprise billing by hospital physicians
Patients with private health insurance face a serious risk of being treated and billed by an out-of-network doctor when they receive care at in-network hospitals, according to a new study by Yale researchers. Addressing the issue could reduce health spending…
Having to defend one’s sexuality increases fear of childbirth
In order to help people with fear of childbirth, there must be trust between the patient and the healthcare staff. But for many lesbian and bisexual women and transgender people, this trust never develops. These are the results of a…
Evidence suggests previously unrecognized latex allergies may play role in equine asthma
DENVER/December 16, 2019 – Latex exposure could be detrimental to a horse’s respiratory health. That’s the surprising discovery from Morris Animal Foundation -funded research at the Royal Agricultural University and University of Nottingham. While further investigation is needed, researchers say…
A new gene therapy strategy, courtesy of Mother Nature
Scientists turn a natural cellular process into a drug-delivery system
Blue pigment discoverer makes key design advance for future durable, vivid pigments
CORVALLIS, Ore. – An Oregon State University chemistry researcher who made history a decade ago with the accidental discovery of the first new blue inorganic pigment in more than two centuries is again pushing forward the science of color. Analyzing…
New review study shows that egg-industry-funded research downplays danger of cholesterol
Researchers explain how faulty, industry-funded studies can harm public health