Day June 25, 2021

Parents of children with the most complex medical conditions are more likely to report poor or fair mental health and struggle to find community help, according to a study completed by researchers at University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and…

IMAGE: University of Houston Professor Yunsoo Choi and doctoral student Alqamah Sayeed study atmospheric data. view more  Credit: University of Houston Ozone levels in the earth’s troposphere (the lowest level of our atmosphere) can now be forecasted with accuracy up to…

ITHACA, N.Y. – Tossing worn-out solar panels into landfills may soon become electronics waste history. Designing a recycling strategy for a new, forthcoming generation of photovoltaic solar cells – made from metal halide perovskites, a family of crystalline materials with…

ITHACA, N.Y. – As mosquito-borne diseases pose risks for half the world’s population, scientists have been releasing sterile or genetically modified male mosquitos in attempts to suppress populations or alter their traits to control human disease. But these technologies have…

HOUSTON – (June 24, 2021) – Hold on there, graphene. Seriously, your grip could help make better catalysts. Rice University engineers have assembled what they say may transform chemical catalysis by greatly increasing the number of transition-metal single atoms that…

IMAGE: A pair of moonlike sharp-edge apertures enables generation of diffractive focusing light spot sized within the optical diffraction limit, while eliminating side waves along the symmetric cut. view more  Credit: Credit: Yanwen Hu. Optical superoscillation refers to a wave packet…

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists identified how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, gets inside cells to cause infection. All current COVID-19 vaccines and antibody-based therapeutics were designed to disrupt this route into cells, which requires a receptor called…

IMAGE: Dr. O’Bryant announced the availability of the research data in article published June 21 in Alzheimer’s Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment Disease Monitoring, a national journal published by the Alzheimer’s… view more  Credit: HSC A growing trove of data to help scientists…

IMAGE: Elodie Vandelle, Annalisa Polverari, Davide Danzi, Vanessa Maurizio, Alice Regaiolo, Maria Rita Puttilli, Teresa Colombo, Tommaso Libardi view more  Credit: Elodie Vandelle Over the last decade, severe outbreaks of bacterial canker have caused huge economic losses for kiwi growers, especially…

New research has discovered that common artificial sweeteners can cause previously healthy gut bacteria to become diseased and invade the gut wall, potentially leading to serious health issues. The study, published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, is the…