Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) possess optical properties that could be used to make computers run a million times faster and store information a million times more energy-efficiently, according to a study led by Georgia State University.
A new model is bringing scientists a step closer to understanding the kinds of light signals produced when two supermassive black holes, which are millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, spiral toward a collision. For the first time, a new computer simulation that fully incorporates the physical effects of Einstein's general theory of relativity shows that gas in such systems will glow predominantly in ultraviolet and X-ray light.
Researchers at VIB and KU Leuven have uncovered a new molecular interaction that governs the formation of specific functional connections between two types of neurons. It gives an important clue as to how unique interactions give shape to precisely organized neuronal networks in the brain.
Studies on red and processed meat consumption with breast cancer risk have generated inconsistent results. An International Journal of Cancer analysis has now examined all published studies on the topic.Comparing the highest to the lowest category in the 15 studies included in the analysis, processed meat consumption was associated with a 9% higher breast cancer risk.
(IMDEA Networks Institute) Who doesn't have web accounts and faces a daily challenge of having to save and remember a plethora of usernames and passwords? An international team of researchers has unveiled a new secure authentication platform for mobile devices that links all of a user's online accounts to their identity, leaving their management to be handled by their cell phone.
(Brown University) Carlos Vargas-Irwin, an assistant professor of neuroscience (research) at Brown University just received a five-year, $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health for his new approach to decoding neural activity in the motor cortex.
(University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences) Three Pitt faculty members win NIH Director's Awards, including one Transformative Research Award, which only has 10 recipients nationwide.
(University of Würzburg) He received a prestigious award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The renowned chemist, Kazunori Sugiyasu, will now join the University of Würzburg to do research with Professor Frank Würthner.
(U.S. Army Research Laboratory) Future American Soldiers will be better protected in combat by stronger and lighter body armor thanks to innovative work at the US Army Research Laboratory. Materials science engineers are using nature as the inspiration for breakthroughs in additive manufacturing.
(Samara University) For conducting biological experiments in circumterrestrial orbit the team of researchers at the Samara University is performing laboratory-testing measuring the capacity of an automatic module prototype. The biomodule is being created in accordance with Cubesat standards and is intended to be flown on board the nanosatellite or small spacecraft.
(University of Southern California - Health Sciences) Every minute of every day, your organs are using a complex language to communicate with each other about the basic physiological processes necessary for life -- everything from blood pressure regulation to pH balance to metabolism. To decipher this little-known language, USC Stem Cell scientist Andy McMahon has joined forces with top scientists at Harvard and Stanford universities under the auspices of the NIH Director's Transformative Research Award.
(Carnegie Mellon University) Yongxin (Leon) Zhao, assistant professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University has received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Award. The award is part of the National Institutes of Health's High-Risk, High-Reward Research program and will support Zhao as he develops transformative nanoscale imaging techniques that will allow researchers to see precise 'biomolecule maps' in pathology samples. These maps will allow for the comprehensive analysis of complex diseases... Читать дальше...
(NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute) Daniel Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), was named the Federal Employee of the Year as part of the 2018 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals program, known as the 'Sammies.' Dr. Kasnter is recognized for his work in identifying an entirely new class of rare genetic diseases and treatments to alleviate suffering for thousands of patients in the US and around the world.
Computed tomography (CT)-based measures of calcification in the abdominal aorta are strong predictors of heart attacks and other adverse cardiovascular events -- stronger even than the widely used Framingham risk score, according to a new study.
Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and his colleagues discovered a new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto with an orbit that supports the presence of an even-farther-out, Super-Earth or larger Planet X.
Changes in the structure of the skin and the lymphatic system that occur with the natural aging process create permissive conditions for melanoma metastasis, according to two studies by The Wistar Institute.
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have developed a technology where two robots can work in unison to 3D-print a concrete structure.
A new study identifies the typical pattern of homeopathy consumers in Spain, based on data from the CIS (Centre for Sociological Research) barometer, published last February. The results show that the profile is that of a middle- or upper-class woman of about 46, with higher education and a progressive political ideology.
A research team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health found that a well-known gene variant linked to Type 2 diabetes, called transcription Factor-7 like 2 gene, may also predispose someone to being leaner, or having a lower body weight.
Vitamin E's positive effects often fail to manifest themselves as strongly as expected, but sometimes administering vitamin E actually has detrimental effects. An international team has now found a possible cause for this. It has shown that the effect of vitamin E, which is taken as a tablet or capsule, is not based on the vitamin itself, but rather on the effect of a metabolite. This socalled alpha-carboxychromanol has e. g. a promising anti-inflammatory effect.
It's a jungle out there in the suburbs, where many wild mammals are thriving near humans. That's the conclusion of a large-scale study using camera trap images from hundreds of citizen scientists in Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, North Carolina.
The study, led by Paula Izquierdo, a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), has gone deeply into the analysis of this exceptional white dwarf, which shows periodic transits produced by fragments of a shredded planetesimal. The observations used for this research were obtained with the Gran Telescopio Canarias and with the Liverpool Telescope.
Scientists have created miniature magnetic swimming devices -- which mimic the appearance of sperm cells -- that could revolutionize disease treatment by swimming drugs to specific areas of the body.
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have discovered a new way in which nerve cells can control movement. In a study on zebrafish published in the journal PNAS they show that the contact between neurons and muscles is more dynamic than previously thought. The results can open up new avenues to treating spinal cord injury and certain neurological diseases.
A perovskite solar module the size of an A4 sheet of paper, which is nearly six times bigger than modules of that type reported before, has been developed by Swansea University researchers, by using simple and low-cost printing techniques.