Day January 12, 2021

IMAGE: Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the UIC College of Engineering and Zhennan Huang, a Ph.D. student in Shahbazian-Yassar’s lab and co-first author of the paper…. view more  Credit: Photo: Jenny Fontaine/UIC Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, professor of mechanical…

IMAGE: Zombie and other horror and science fiction movies and TV shows may have prepared viewers for the current pandemic. view more  Credit: Patrick Mansell, Penn State Tales of post-apocalyptic landscapes in which few survivors emerge into a new and much…

IMAGE: Only about half of fawns across the white-tailed deer’s range, on average, live to see their first birthday, and predators such as coyotes, bears and bobcats have been blamed for… view more  Credit: Tess Gingery/Penn State The first-ever study of…

University of Wyoming researchers headed a study that shows nonnative birds in Oahu, Hawaii, have taken over the role of seed dispersal networks on the island, with most of the seeds coming from nonnative plants. “Hawaii is one of the…

Reston, Virginia–Physicians who follow artificial intelligence (AI) advice may be considered less liable for medical malpractice than is commonly thought, according to a new study of potential jury candidates in the U.S. Published in the January issue of The Journal…

IMAGE: Artificial intelligence enabled autonomous design of nanoporous materials. view more  Credit: Courtesy of University of Toronto TORONTO, ON – New research led by researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T) and Northwestern University employs machine learning to craft…

‘This effort truly represents a “moonshot” in COVID-19 research’ Scientists identify target to treat COVID pneumonia and reduce severity Clinical trials with new experimental drug to begin early in 2021 Goal is to develop treatments that make COVID-19 no worse…

How are networks of neurons connected to make functional circuits? This has been a long standing question in neuroscience. To answer this fundamental question, researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School developed a new way to study these…

ORLANDO, Jan. 11, 2021 – Data from Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has been used to help detect the first possible hints of low-frequency disturbances in the curvature of space-time. The results were presented today at the 237th meeting of…

In a surprising discovery, Princeton physicists have observed an unexpected quantum behavior in an insulator made from a material called tungsten ditelluride. This phenomenon, known as quantum oscillation, is typically observed in metals rather than insulators, and its discovery offers…