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UrduIn our everyday life it’s not uncommon to see the same material in different states. Take for example water: it’s a liquid at ambient temperature, we can convert into ice when cooled below 0°C and it becomes a gas when…
Month: September 2020
An embedded ethics approach for AI development
‘Ethics must be part of the development process’
Managing data flow boosts cyber-physical system performance
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a suite of algorithms to improve the performance of cyber-physical systems – from autonomous vehicles to smart power grids – by balancing each component’s need for data with how fast that data…
$1.3 million DOE grant funds study of how fungus may help grow sorghum for biofuels
Findings will help advance basic understanding of the genetic mechanisms by which plants control their associations with potentially beneficial root-associated microbes
Doctors rebuild damaged corneas using patients’ own own stem cells for first time in US
Early results demonstrate initial feasibility of a procedure that might help thousands with corneal blindness who cannot receive corneal transplants due to damage, such as chemical burns
Drones can be a source of disturbance to wintering waterbird flocks
Newly published research, in Bird Study , carried out by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) in Scotland, shows that wintering waterbirds, such as ducks, geese, swans and wading birds can easily be scared into flight by drones. In recent…
GCS coordinates projects to build Pan-European HPC Competency Network
The EuroCC and CASTIEL projects, coordinated by the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing, aim at creating a Europe-wide network of national high-performance computing competence centers.
First treatment identified for fainting
Sophia Antipolis, France – 1 Sept 2020: Fainting affects one in two people during their lifetime. Those with recurrent episodes are often afraid to socialise or go to work. Today researchers report the first effective therapy. The late breaking research…
Metalmark launches to make clean air affordable for all
Startup has licensed butterfly wing-inspired technology to develop high-performing, affordable air purification systems
Idle threat
University of Utah engineers to design and test real-time air pollution warning system for school, hospital parking lots.
Legal performance-enhancing substances associated with future problematic alcohol use
New research shows that use of legal performance-enhancing substances in young adulthood is prospectively associated with problematic alcohol use and drinking-related risk behaviors in adulthood
One quarter of prescription drugs in Canada may be in short supply
Research from the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (CHÉOS) sheds new light on the factors behind drug shortages in Canada, a common problem across the country. In 2018 alone, Canadian patients faced shortages for hundreds of medications, including…
Your paper notebook could become your next tablet
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Innovators from Purdue University hope their new technology can help transform paper sheets from a notebook into a music player interface and make food packaging interactive. Purdue engineers developed a simple printing process that renders any…
There’s a shortage of info on drugs for children in Canada
The absence of pediatric information perpetuates ‘off-label’ drug use which could be dangerous for this vulnerable population
Hindawi Limited announces open access partnership with SAGE Publishing
Three of SAGE Publishing’s open access journals will publish with Hindawi under a new collaborative publishing agreement
Unravelling mother to baby transmission of Zika virus
Zika virus is a mild infection for most people but it can be dangerous during pregnancy, causing infants to be born with abnormally small heads (microcephaly) and other congenital malformations. A new study published in Frontiers in Immunology has shown…
Giant leap for molecular measurements
A new tool to analyze molecules is 100 times faster than previous methods
New York and California may have already achieved herd immunity — Ben-Gurion U. researcher
Ben-Gurion University researcher Dr. Mark last presented findings presented at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME)
Relatives in deep grief can be helped earlier
Many relatives who experience severe long-term grief reactions after bereavement have more frequent contact with their general practitioner already prior to bereavement, as well as a higher consumption of antidepressants and sedatives than those who have
Brain estrogen is key to brain protection when oxygen is low
When the brain isn’t getting enough oxygen, estrogen produced by neurons in both males and females hyperactivates another brain cell type called astrocytes to step up their usual support and protect brain function. In the face of low brain oxygen…
Venom from honeybees found to kill aggressive breast cancer cells
Australian research published in Nature Precision Oncology
Awareness raising alone is not enough
Nature conservation policy too rarely succeeds in changing people’s behaviour
Blood marker may reduce cancer burden
Progress with microRNA biomarker
First randomised trial backs safety of common heart drugs in COVID-19 patients
BRACE CORONA trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2020
Educational mailing fails to improve medication use in patients with atrial fibrillation
IMPACT-AFib trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2020
Blood pressure-lowering is even more beneficial than previously thought
BPLTTC trial presented in a Hot Line Session today at ESC Congress 2020
Story tips: Cool smart walls, magnetism twist, fuel cost savings and polymers’ impact
Buildings – Cool smart walls Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers used additive manufacturing to build a first-of-its kind smart wall called EMPOWER. The wall, designed for a building’s interior, also functions as a cooling system to optimize energy use and…
Growth hormone plays key role in early puberty, breast cancer risk
Groundbreaking findings based on following 180+ girls for 14 years
Monitoring and reporting framework to protect World Heritage Sites from invasive species
A team of international scientists have devised a new monitoring and reporting framework to help protect World Heritage Sites from almost 300 different invasive alien species globally including rats, cats and Argentine ants
A small number of self-organizing autonomous vehicles significantly increases traffic flow
With the addition of just a small number of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the road, traffic flow can become faster, greener, and safer in the near future, a new study suggests. The study, published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical…
Notice me! Neglected for over a century, Black sea spider crab re-described
Even though recognised in the Mediterranean Sea, the Macropodia czernjawskii spider crab was ignored by scientists (even by its namesake Vladimir Czernyavsky) in the regional faunal accounts of the Black Sea for more than a century. At the same time,…
Yale trial addresses health disparities in alcohol treatment
Yale researchers are completing a first-of-its-kind clinical trial to test the efficacy of an automated bilingual alcohol screening and intervention tool for use in emergency departments (EDs). The computerized tool, administered to English- and Spanish-speaking Latino patient volunteers, is designed…
Flat Optics in Structuring Light and Gravitational Waves Plenary at OSA FiO + LS Conference
Federico Capasso and Nergis Mavalvala to headline plenaries
New in the Hastings Center Report: Ethical challenges of the opioid crisis
Solving the Opioid Crisis Isn’t Just a Public Health Challenge–It’s a Bioethics Challenge Travis N. Rieder It is popular, Rieder observes, to claim that we know what we, as a society, ought to do to solve America’s opioid crisis–we simply…
Fish invasions follow Panama and Suez canal expansions
Research halted by pandemic
How to weigh a dinosaur
Researchers from the University of New England and Royal Ontario Museum shed new light on long-debated topic of dinosaur weight
Eye of a fly: Researchers reveal secrets of fly vision for rapid flight control
Mechanical engineering researchers gain biological insights that could enhance robotics
European study finds screen time and sleep duration predict overweight in children
Overweight and obesity prevention strategies should promote the importance of getting enough sleep and limiting screen time, say researchers
NYUAD study finds gene targets to combat microorganisms binding to underwater surfaces
This study paves the way for the creation of new environmentally-friendly antifouling methods
NASA-NOAA satellite provides a nighttime view of new Atlantic tropical depression
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided a nighttime view of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season’s latest tropical cyclone off the coast of North Carolina. Ocean swells from the depression are affecting coastal North Carolina today, Sept. 1. Tropical Depression 15 formed…
Loggerhead turtles record a passing hurricane
In early June 2011, NOAA Fisheries researchers and colleagues placed satellite tags on 26 loggerhead sea turtles in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. The tagging was part of ongoing studies of loggerhead movements and behavior. The Mid-Atlantic Bight, off the U.S. East…
Mastodons traveled vast distances across North America due to climate change: Research
New research from an international team of evolutionary geneticists, bioinformaticians and paleontologists suggests that dramatic environmental changes accompanying the shift or melting of continental glaciers played a key role as American mastodons moved north from their southern ranges. In the…
IntraOp and Ohio State announce collaboration in FLASH
IntraOp Medical Corporation has delivered its pre-clinical, high-dose rate electron beam linear accelerator to The Ohio State University Comprehensive James Cancer Center
Miniature antenna enables robotic teaming in complex environments
ADELPHI, Md. — A new, miniature, low-frequency antenna with enhanced bandwidth will enable robust networking among compact, mobile robots in complex environments. In a collaborative effort between the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory and the University…
As rural western towns grow, so do their planning challenges
A new study examines the planning challenges that residents and officials in the rural mountain American West have been watching unfold for years
Revisiting ratios
A multinational study overturns a 130-year old assumption about seawater chemistry
Minimal SARS-CoV-2 diversity suggests a global vaccine is feasible
Genetic analysis of sequences from more than 27,000 individuals infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 reveals that the virus has mutated minimally since December 2019, suggesting one vaccine would be sufficient to combat global infections. The study was conducted…
Misfiring brain cells may cause swallowing woes in children with developmental disorders
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists reveal molecular roots of swallowing disorder
VAT cuts do not increase consumer purchasing power
Study of VAT changes in the European Union from 1996 to 2015
Different responses in individual cells give muscles more control
Variations dismissed as “noise” actually information