Computer Sciences
A model that can create realistic animations of talking faces
In recent years, computer-generated animations of animals and humans have become increasingly detailed and realistic. Nonetheless, producing convincing animations of a character's face as it's talking remains a key challenge, ...
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Optics & Photonics
Shining a light on synthetic dimensions
Humans experience the world in three dimensions, but a collaboration in Japan has developed a way to create synthetic dimensions to better understand the fundamental laws of the universe and possibly apply them to advanced ...
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Peruvian gold rush turns pristine rainforests into heavily polluted mercury sinks
If you had to guess which part of the world has the highest levels of atmospheric mercury pollution, you probably wouldn't pick a patch of pristine Amazonian rainforest. Yet, that's exactly where they are.
Environment
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Precision machining produces tiny, light-guiding cubes for advancing info tech
Drilling with the beam of an electron microscope, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory precisely machined tiny electrically conductive cubes that can interact with light and organized them ...
Optics & Photonics
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Extreme exoplanet has a complex and exotic atmosphere
An international team including researchers from the University of Bern and the University of Geneva as well as the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS analyzed the atmosphere of one of the most extreme ...
Astronomy
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Highest resolution view of the heart of a blazar achieved
An international team, including several researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, has mapped the active galaxy OJ 287 with an angular resolution of 12 microarcseconds in the radio range. This ...
Astronomy
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An electrically charged thin film patch used to promote wound healing
A team of researchers working at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China has developed an electrically charged thin film patch for promoting faster wound healing. In their paper published in the journal ...
Creating non-hallucinogenic analogs of LSD and psilocybin to treat mental illnesses
A combined team of researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and ShanghaiTech University's, iHuman Institute has created non-hallucinogenic analogs of LSD and psilocybin for possible treatment ...
Retrotransposon expression is repressed in Huntington's disease
Huntington's disease (HD) is a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease characterized by expansion of the number of trinucleotide CAG repeats in the first exon of the HTT gene encoding the protein huntingtin. While ...
Blocking sphingolipids counteracts muscular dystrophy
EPFL scientists have made the first link between muscular dystrophy and a group of bioactive fats, the sphingolipids, which are involved in numerous cell functions and other diseases.
Medical research
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Medical Xpress
Stool samples reveal microbial enzyme driving bowel disease
An electrically charged thin film patch used to promote wound healing
Blocking sphingolipids counteracts muscular dystrophy
Lung abnormalities found in long COVID patients
Developing a smartphone app for flu and COVID detection
How stress, anxiety contribute to youth violence
Researchers discover how lactic acid weakens anti-tumor defenses
Speeding up cancer biomarker detection for point of care diagnostics
How worried should you be about the new COVID subvariant?
Simple and reliable ALS diagnosis with blood tests
New vaccine may provide better treatment for tuberculosis
The mechanisms behind cancer cell resistance to TRAIL treatment
Artificial muscles made of proteins
Precision rehabilitation may prevent osteoarthritis
How you can help scientists better understand COVID variants with wearable devices
Schizophrenia, bipolar I patients experience cognitive decline
How fetal alcohol exposure increases risk of development disorders
Certain dietary patterns may raise risk for developing IBD
What we now know about lingering COVID-19 known as long COVID
Tech Xplore
A model that can create realistic animations of talking faces
Invisible machine-readable labels that identify and track objects
2D Materials could be used to simulate brain synapses in computers
iPhone owners could soon be able to use Face ID while wearing a mask
How to best analyze big social data
Tons of used face masks to be turned into energy
Sustainable electronics reduce environmental load and enable new applications
Stay safe when winter storms cut your power
A four-megabit nvCIM macro for edge AI devices
Insects help robots gain better grip
Demystifying machine-learning systems using natural language
Developing a smartphone app for flu and COVID detection
In a potential game changer for COVID-19 pandemic control efforts, a new cell phone app and lab kit have transformed a smartphone into a COVID-19 / flu detection system. The detection system is among the most rapid, sensitive, ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Researchers discover how lactic acid weakens anti-tumor defenses
In cancer research, it has long been known that lactic acid, or lactate, is produced in large quantities by cancer cells and that this lactic acid disrupts our defense against tumors. Until now, however, we did not know exactly ...
Oncology & Cancer
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Mutant stem cells defy rules of development
Imagine you're baking a cake, but you run out of salt. Even with the missing ingredient, the batter still looks like cake batter, so you stick it in the oven and cross your fingers, expecting to end up with something pretty ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Solving a superconducting mystery with more precise computations
Researchers have known about high-temperature superconducting copper-based materials, or cuprates, since the 1980s. Below a certain temperature (approximately -130 degree Celsius), electrical resistance vanishes from these ...
Superconductivity
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New approach transports trapped ions to create entangling gates
Trapped ions excited with a laser beam can be used to create entangled qubits in quantum information systems, but addressing several stationary pairs of ions in a trap requires multiple optical switches and complex controls. ...
Quantum Physics
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Center stage for quantum mechanical entanglement in an attosecond laser laboratory
Quantum mechanical predictions challenge intuitive human thinking developed through the way that we experience the everyday world around us.
Optics & Photonics
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Speeding up cancer biomarker detection for point of care diagnostics
The detection and quantification of cancer-associated molecular biomarkers in body fluids, or liquid biopsies, prove minimally invasive in early cancer diagnostics. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...
Oncology & Cancer
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Stool samples reveal microbial enzyme driving bowel disease
Ulcerative colitis, a subtype of inflammatory bowel disease, is a chronic ailment of the colon affecting nearly one million individuals in the United States. It is thought to be linked to disruptions in the gut microbiome—the ...
Medical research
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Magnetic navigation: Songbirds use the Earth's magnetic field as a stop sign during migration
A new study published today in Science has shed light on how birds navigate back to their breeding site after flying across two continents.
Plants & Animals
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More control in delivering light to human tissue and other systems
In recent years, scientists have been able to transmit light through opaque surfaces, such as white paint or human tissue, which had once been considered impossible. However, a technique for controlled light delivery to a ...
Optics & Photonics
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Surveys with repetitive questions yield bad data, study finds
Surveys that ask too many of the same type of question tire respondents and return unreliable data, according to a new UC Riverside-led study.
NASA's HERMES mission passes key milestone, moves toward launch
NASA's HERMES mission—a four-instrument suite to be mounted outside NASA's Moon-orbiting Gateway—has passed a critical mission review on Jan. 27, 2022.
Montana weighs wolf hunt limits; 23 from Yellowstone killed
Montana wildlife commissioners on Friday will consider if gray wolf hunting and trapping should continue in areas bordering Yellowstone National Park after 23 of the animals roamed from the park and were killed over the past ...
NASA planes fly into snowstorms to study snowfall
Scientists repeatedly check the weather forecasts as they prepare aircraft for flight and perform last-minute checks on science instruments. There's a large winter storm rolling in, but that's exactly what these storm-chasing ...
How the future of US corn, soybean and wheat production depends on sustainable groundwater use
In the U.S., 52% of irrigated land is used for corn, soybean and winter wheat production. Corn and soybean are two of the country's most important crops, with 17% of corn production and 12% of soybean production coming from ...
Consumer sentiment sinks to decade low
Consumer sentiment fell throughout January, posting a cumulative loss of 4.8%, sinking to its lowest level since November 2011, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.
Watchdog group says HHS not ready to battle future health crises
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is falling down on the job when it comes to dealing with numerous public health crises, a nonpartisan government watchdog said Thursday.
Researcher combines climate change and land use data to predict watershed impact
When rain falls, it picks up pollution from streets, farms and other manmade features as it winds toward the ocean.
Evolution: How Victorian sexism influenced Darwin's theories—new research
Sex is an expensive business, biologically speaking. Finding a suitable mate takes time and energy. Offspring are also a huge investment of resources. But sex does offer a rewarding possibility: children who are fitter than ...
Greece: Rescue operation to help stranded young whale
Divers, vets and the coast guard were mounting a rescue operation Friday to help a whale calf that had become trapped in shallow water in a seaside area of the Greek capital, but tests carried out on the animal showed it ...
Crashing rocket will create new moon crater: What we should worry about
It's not often that the sudden appearance of a new impact crater on the moon can be predicted, but it's going to happen on March 4, when a derelict SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will crash into it.
Preventing sexual abuse in humanitarian settings 'high priority': WHO chief
Preventing sexual abuse in humanitarian settings is a top priority for the World Health Organization, its chief insisted Friday, amid pressure from donors over an abuse scandal in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
High mountain rain has scientists rethinking river basics
Mountainous terrains have dynamic climates and can produce startling contrasts in precipitation. Increases in elevation can spell either more or less rainfall depending on atmospheric moisture content, general circulation ...
Revolutionizing satellite power using laser beaming
The University of Surrey and Space Power are tackling the problem of powering satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) during their eclipse period when they cannot see the sun. By collaborating on a space infrastructure project, ...
How we discovered a rare giant millipede fossil on a beach, and why it matters
Ever stumbled upon a huge fossil on your holiday? That's what happened to me and two friends in January 2018, on a beach in Howick in the north of England,while on a geological road-trip across England and Wales. It was pure ...
How to teach children about climate change, inspire hope and take action to change the future
Children and youth know that climate change is altering lives, environmental patterns and futures.
Most older adults support steps to reduce firearm injury risk, study shows
A strong majority of American adults over 50—including the 37% of older adults who own guns or live with someone who does—supports specific steps that could reduce the risk of firearm injury and death, a new national ...
Thawing permafrost can accelerate global warming
Thawing permafrost in the Arctic could be emitting greenhouse gasses from previously unaccounted-for carbon stocks, fuelling global warming. That is the result of a study conducted by a team of geologists led by Professor ...
Only one in three teachers use research evidence in the classroom, largely due to lack of time
Even before the pandemic, recent research shows most Australian teachers worked an average of 140 to 150% (one-and-a-half times) of their paid hours in a typical week. And they're not necessarily getting to focus on aspects ...
A lunar return, a Jupiter moon, the most powerful rocket ever built and the Webb Telescope
Space travel is all about momentum.
