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Category: Feature
Extra-fast Export: Globus Exceeds on Exascale Day by Accelerating Big-file Transfers
The petabytes produced and consumed by exascale computers must often be moved among elements of the international scientific infrastructure.
Getting a head start on a materials research career
Faced with a growing workload in its research labs, the Materials Research Institute (MRI) met the challenge by offering Penn State students an opportunity that most materials science and engineering undergraduates normally never receive.
MD Anderson’s Boot Walk to End Cancer® to unite thousands virtually on Nov. 6
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center celebrates its sixth annual Boot Walk to End Cancer® on Saturday, Nov. 6. Due to ongoing COVID-19 precautions, the 1.2-mile walk will be held virtually to keep participants, their families and their communities safe. Participants are encouraged to walk a personalized route in their own neighborhoods, whether it be on a trail, track or sidewalk. Registration is open at mdanderson.org/bootwalk.
Why improvisation is the future in an AI-dominated world
In his autobiography, Miles Davis complained that classical musicians were like robots. He spoke from experience – he’d studied classical music at Juilliard and recorded with classical musicians even after becoming a world-renowned jazz artist.
Zhongwei Dai: Exploring the Strange Quantum World of 2D Materials
Zhongwei Dai, a researcher in the Interface Science and Catalysis Group of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, probes the properties of atomically thin materials to identify promising candidates for quantum information science applications
Researchers from Nebraska, Ethiopia rethinking the coffee ‘cherry’
Starting the day with a cup of coffee is a daily ritual for many across the United States, and variations on coffee have changed over time, including the trendy options — iced, frozen, cold brew — and of course, the traditional hot and black.
Alabama student satellite group shifts gears to ABEX mission to keep up with NASA
The Alabama Space Grant Consortium’s statewide, university student-built cube satellite project is shifting gears to ABEX, the Alabama Burst Energetics eXplorer, after its drive to be the first student-built Cubesat to leave low Earth orbit (LEO) was derailed when NASA dropped secondary payloads from the Artemis II flight.
Berkeley Lab Mobilizes to Predict How Caldor Fire May Lead to Floods and Land Movement
After the Caldor Fire erupted in August 2021, scientists from Berkeley Lab launched a research project to study how the fire would affect the mountain ecosystem, including factors such as streamflow, groundwater levels, water quality, and possible soil erosion leading to floods and debris flow. They mobilized to burn areas to collect samples of water, sediment, and ash.
The Medical Minute: You got your mother’s blue eyes. Will you get her breast cancer, too?
Family traits can be a source of pride – and a source of worry. Fortunately, only 5% to 10% of all cancers can be linked to a genetic mutation passed on from your mom or dad. How can you gauge your genetic risk?
Specialty services offered for those with inherited retinal diseases
A new service for people with rare eye conditions has opened at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine’s Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary. The Inherited Retinal Disease Service offers state-of-the-art evaluation and consultation for patients with inherited retinal diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa, Best disease, cone dystrophy, macular dystrophy, Stargardt disease and others.
California’s climate crisis examined on UCI special report website
For the past half century, the University of California, Irvine has been home to some of the world’s leading experts on the environment, energy, oceans and atmosphere in the Golden State. To share their stories, UCI today is launching a web special report, “California’s Climate Crisis.”
TraumaChekTM: Next step in life-saving blood-assessment technology
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University are leading the development of TraumaChekTM, a hand-held medical device to quickly assess a wounded soldier’s critical clotting issues and other blood conditions in the battlefield. The new sensor, if successful and adopted in the field, would represent the next generation of their successful ClotChip®, which emergency workers can use to measure how well a patient’s blood may clot.
TraumaChekTM: Next step in life-saving blood-assessment technology
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University are leading the development of TraumaChekTM, a hand-held medical device to quickly assess a wounded soldier’s critical clotting issues and other blood conditions in the battlefield. The new sensor, if successful and adopted in the field, would represent the next generation of their successful ClotChip®, which emergency workers can use to measure how well a patient’s blood may clot.
What is soil made of?
Weathering of rocks and organic matter important in soil formation
What is sunn hemp and how is it used in agronomy?
Superhero of the plant work is a powerful solution to challenges
What is “soil carbon”?
Both frozen carbon dioxide and organic matter are important forms of soil carbon
What You Need to Know About Urinary Tract Infections
More than half of U.S. women will experience at least one urinary tract infection (UTI) in their lifetimes, while a quarter will have a subsequent infection. Recurrent urinary tract infections are defined as two or more infections in six months or three or more in a year.
Seniors Should Stay Fit, Body & Mind – Chula Suggests Ways to Exercise Safely at Home to Keep COVID-19 Away
Chula physical therapy specialist invites seniors to exercise to boost their immunity against COVID-19 and stay fit even during home quarantine with easy ways to exercise at home during the lockdown.
Scientists recreate cosmic reactions to unlock astronomical mysteries
Scientists from Argonne and Michigan State University have completed the first tests using a new particle accelerator to gain insights into the creation of carbon in stars.
Kauai Test Facility launches its largest missile
The largest missile ever to launch from Sandia National Laboratories’ Kauai Test Facility in Hawaii has shown the storied test range is still growing to meet the testing needs of advanced weapons systems.
Stress-relief Music Therapy Can Also Effectively Relieve Pain
Medical results show that music therapy can lower blood pressure, relieve pain during chemotherapy and dialysis, as well as stimulate the elderly brain. The Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University is offering a Music Therapy Program aiming to heal the ever-increasing patients with various chronic diseases in society.
Novel Lithotripsy Technology to Treat Coronary Blockages
For Joseph Komor, what started out as six months of neck pain, wound up in a lifesaving procedure to treat his coronary artery disease using advanced sonic wave technology.
Three Steps Forward
Mariah Candelaria is a three-time survivor of Hodgkin Lymphoma and received a stem cell transplant at the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center. During and after her recovery she’s leaned on dance to make it through. Now she wants to give back to others who are going through similar challenges fighting cancer.
ASU ranks number one in innovation for the seventh year in a row
For the seventh year in a row Arizona State University was ranked number one in innovation by U.S. News and World Report.
Saving the Great Plains with prescribed fire, mixed grazing
Rangelands in the Great Plains, and the ranchers who depend on them, are losing battles against an invasion of brush and shrubs on historical grasslands.
“Read Medicine Labels” – How to Safely Use Green Chiretta Against COVID-19
Chula Pharmaceutical Science urges consumers to pay attention to “medicine labels” to choose and use green chiretta (Andrographis paniculata) effectively and safely. They also cautioned that the government should modify the labels, and control the price of herbal medicines that help in curbing the current pandemic.
Tololo captura una galaxia condenada a desaparecer
Los integrantes del cúmulo galáctico de Fornax protagonizan esta imagen del Telescopio Víctor M. Blanco de 4 metros ubicado en el Observatorio de Cerro Tololo (CTIO) en Chile, un programa de NOIRLab de NSF y observatorio AURA. En ella, la galaxia irregular NGC 1427A, que aparece en la esquina inferior izquierda de esta imagen, se dirige irremediablemente hacia el corazón del cúmulo de Fornax en un viaje de millones de años que culminará con la ruptura total de la galaxia.
Preparing for exascale: Argonne’s Aurora supercomputer to drive brain map construction
Argonne researchers are mapping the complex tangle of the brain’s connections — a connectome — by developing applications that will find their stride in the advent of exascale computing.
Plunging into the Furnace
The denizens of the Fornax galaxy cluster populate this image from the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope, located in Chile at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. The irregular galaxy lurking in the bottom left corner of this Dark Energy Survey image is NGC 1427A, and its headlong plunge into the heart of the Fornax Cluster over millions of years will eventually result in the galaxy’s disruption.
Men should check their genes for prostate cancer risk
As Prostate Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close, researchers want to circulate the message that some gene mutations linked to breast and ovarian cancer are also associated with prostate cancer.
Laser treatment shows potential for reducing industrial chemical processing for vehicles
A multidisciplinary team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has applied a laser-interference structuring technique that makes significant strides toward eliminating the need for hazardous chemicals for corrosion protection in military vehicles and aircraft systems.
Space odyssey: Argonne scientists among the first to study asteroid fragments
Argonne scientists at the Advanced Photon Source are among the first to study tiny fragments of near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu, collected by a Japanese space mission. These fragments could tell us long-hidden secrets about how our planet and solar system were formed.
U.S. Researchers Simulate Compact Fusion Power Plant Concept
The Compact Advanced Tokamak (CAT) concept uses physics models to show that by carefully shaping the plasma and the distribution of current in the plasma, fusion plant operators can suppress turbulent eddies in the plasma. This would reduce heat loss and allow more efficient reactor operation. This advance could help achieve self-sustaining plasma and smaller, less expensive power plants.
Old beans may have new uses
Crop wild relatives of beans topic of blog, celebrated yearly by crop society
The Medical Minute: Maintaining vaginal health as you age
With periods, pregnancies and pap smears in the rearview mirror, menopausal women may stop tending to health below their waist. A Penn State Health urogynecologist offers women advice as they age.
Hackensack University Medical Center’s Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP)
The Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP), designed to prevent delirium and improve older patients’ hospital experience, has recently been folded into the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) CoCare portfolio. HackensackUMC has been participating in the HELP model since 2008.
Michigan State University leading global COVID-19 wastewater monitoring effort
As public health leaders worldwide scramble to contain COVID-19’s delta variant, researchers at Michigan State University know what can provide early signs of the virus and help with critical decisions — sewage.
146th Annual Meeting of the ANA to Focus on Research and Development of Neurologic Disease Therapeutics
ANA’s Virtual Annual Meeting will offer scientific symposia highlighting cutting-edge research in neurology, Interactive Workshops that spotlight advances across the full spectrum of neurologic and neuroscience subspecialties, and Professional Development courses to help academic neurologists and neuroscientists at all career levels connect and excel.
NASA’s Webb to Explore Forming Planetary Systems
What was our Solar System like as it was forming billions of years ago? We have some basic understanding of planet formation, but we don’t know the details – especially details about the solar system’s early chemical composition, and how it may have changed with time. And how did water make its way to Earth? While we can’t time travel to get the answers, we can detail how other planetary systems are forming right now.
University of Washington researchers discover four dinosaurs in Montana
A team of paleontologists from the University of Washington excavated four dinosaurs in northeastern Montana this summer. The four dinosaur fossils are: the ilium of an ostrich-sized theropod; the hips and legs of a duck-billed dinosaur; a pelvis and limbs from another theropod; and a Triceratops specimen.
A New Understanding of Galaxy Evolution with NASA’s Roman Space Telescope
Galaxies change over time, but those changes take millions or billions of years – far longer than the human lifetime. To understand how galaxies evolve, astronomers therefore need to study large numbers of galaxies at various stages. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will revolutionize galaxy studies since it can survey the sky up to thousands of times faster than can be done with Hubble at similar image sharpness (resolution). It will reveal how galaxies assembled and transformed over the history of the universe.
Collaborative Research Institute Kicks Off Canadian Food Safety and Science Series Featuring McGill University Scholars
Fall and winter 2021 IAFNS webinar series highlights topical research from Canadian universities on polymers in sustainable packaging, antioxidants in cereal grains, and many other presentations.
Game-Changing Tool for Preventing Heart Attacks
The Valley Hospital, in Ridgewood, NJ, is among the first to use non-invasive, artificial intelligence imaging technology to prevent heart attacks by characterizing unstable plaque buildup with a high potential to rupture that can lead to a heart attack.
American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) Launches See for a Lifetime See a Retina Specialist Education Initiative to Drive Awareness and Action Around Retinal Diseases that Put Millions at Risk for Blindness
America’s retina specialists are warning the public that millions in the US who don’t know the facts about common retinal conditions such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy are at risk for preventable blindness or vision loss from these sight stealing conditions.
One year in, Q-NEXT quantum research center is going strong
The article summarizes Q-NEXT’s first year of activities, including scientific research, infrastructure building, and workforce development.
A Teaching Moment
Three CSU alumni-teachers reflect on their journey to the classroom, virtual learning and what it means to be an educator.
Is It a Heart Attack? Or Could It Be an Aortic Dissection?
Five years ago, Thomas Cooper says, he had never heard of an “aortic dissection.”
COVID Patient Stories
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is highlighting two particularly interesting stories from COVID survivors who were on ECMO for months, with one patient eventually underdoing a double lung transplantation.
Mother and son receive the same lifesaving procedure by the same surgeon
In an odd twist of fate, 57-year-old Burnett Langley discovered after his four-vessel coronary artery bypass that his surgeon, Steven Eisenberg, MD, performed the same procedure on his mother, Monnie, exactly 10 years earlier.