Day February 16, 2021

IMAGE: MIT researchers in collaboration with surgeons at Harvard Medical School have devised a new type of amputation surgery that can help amputees better control their residual muscles and receive sensory… view more  Credit: MIT CAMBRIDGE, MA — MIT researchers have…

IMAGE: A shallow landslide turned into a debris flow that swept away a house in Sausalito, California, at 3 a.m. on Feb. 14, 2019. A woman was buried in the remains… view more  Credit: Photo courtesy of the City of Sausalito…

When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, doctors and researchers rushed to find effective treatments. There was little time to spare. “Making new drugs takes forever,” says Caroline Uhler, a computational biologist in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and…

More than one-third of the Corn Belt in the Midwest – nearly 100 million acres – has completely lost its carbon-rich topsoil, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst research that indicates the U.S. Department of Agricultural has significantly underestimated the…

We find routes to destination and remember special places because there is an area somewhere in the brain that functions like a GPS and navigation system. When taking a new path for the first time, we pay attention to the…

IMAGE: Professor Niamh Fitzgerald view more  Credit: University of Stirling A new first-of-its-kind study has questioned whether pub operators can effectively and consistently prevent COVID-19 transmission – after researchers observed risks arising in licensed premises last summer. Led by the University…

IMAGE: A pollen tube that grows out of a polen grain with certain fluorescently labelled building blocks. In green: PIP5K2 , the enzyme responsible for the production of lipid nano domains… view more  Credit: Marta Fratini Lipids are the building blocks…

An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of a capuchin monkey for the first time, uncovering new genetic clues about the evolution of their long lifespan and large brains. Published in PNAS, the work was led by the…

IMAGE: Driver exercising extreme caution in his car. view more  Credit: Stan Lim/UCR A new study finds that California’s commuters are likely inhaling chemicals at levels that increase the risk for cancer and birth defects. As with most chemicals, the poison…

Years of suffering and billions of euro in global health care costs, arising from osteoporosis-related bone fractures, could be eliminated using big data to target vulnerable patients, according to researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software.…