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Earth Sciences

Tiny Airplanes and Subs From University of Florida Laboratory Could Be Next Hurricane Hunters

The tiny, autonomous craft — some fly, others dart under the waves — can spy on hurricanes at close range without getting blown willy-nilly, while sensors…

Health & Medicine

Researchers Reveal Malaria's Deadly Grip

Though researchers have known for over a century that red blood cells infected with malaria parasites can kill their host by sticking to the sides of blood…

Studies and Analyses

Link Between Irregular Heartbeat and Memory Issues Explored

“Problems with memory and thinking are common for people as they get older. Our study shows that on average, problems with memory and thinking may start…

Health & Medicine

Genetic Matching Helps Snowboarder Return to Slopes After Illness

The mutation also serves as an Achilles heel, allowing doctors at the University of Colorado Cancer Center to prescribe a never-before-used, targeted…

Physics & Astronomy

Resistivity Switch Sheds Light on Magnetism in Superconductors

“We found that the directions of smallest and largest resistivity within the conducting layers are significantly dependent on the composition of the compounds,…

Life & Chemistry

NIH Uncovers How HIV Destroys Immune Cells

WHAT: Untreated HIV infection destroys a person's immune system by killing infection-fighting cells, but precisely when and how HIV wreaks this destruction has…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Firefighting Robot Paints

A sophisticated on-board software system takes the thermal data recorded by the robot’s small infrared camera and maps it onto a 3D scene constructed from the…

Materials Sciences

New all-solid sulfur-based battery outperforms lithium-ion technology

The ORNL battery design, which uses abundant low-cost elemental sulfur, also addresses flammability concerns experienced by other chemistries. “Our approach is…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Microbial Phytase Boosts Nutrient Digestibility in Pigs

Stein and his team at the U of I have recently published results indicating that a new microbial phytase derived from the bacterium Aspergillus oryzae is…

Studies and Analyses

Yoga Boosts Brain Function: New Study Highlights Benefits

Participants performed significantly better immediately after the yoga practice than after moderate to vigorous aerobic exercise for the same amount of time.The 30 study subjects were young, female, undergraduate students. The new findings appear in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health….

Communications Media

'Temporal cloaking' could bring more secure optical communications

“More work has to be done before this approach finds practical application, but it does use technology that could integrate smoothly into the existing…

Information Technology

Wi-Fi Signals Power Gesture Control in Your Home

No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down. Want to change the song playing on your music system in the other…

Life & Chemistry

Neuronal Regeneration and the Two-Part Design of Nerves

A paper published online in PLOS Biology by U-M Life Sciences Institute faculty member Bing Ye and colleagues shows that manipulating genes of the fruit fly…

Architecture & Construction

Innovative Solar Heating with Borehole Thermal Energy Storage

Via a heating network, the Stadtwerke Crailsheim municipal utility company has used the opportunity to provide the new Hirtenwiesen housing estate with solar…

Health & Medicine

Positive Care Interactions Enhance Healing, Study Reveals

Psychosocial factors, such as words or how a person is received, can help to heal or bring relief. These findings are being presented by the Italian researcher…

Studies and Analyses

Neuroimaging: A New Approach to Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder

MRI may be an effective way to diagnose mental illnesses such as bipolar disorder, according to experts from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In a…

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