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The Next Great Leap Forward? Combining Robots With the Internet of Things
Singularity Hub - 14 Dec 2018 17:00
The Internet of Things is a popular vision of objects with internet connections sending information back and forth to make our lives easier and more comfortable. It's emerging in our homes, through everything from voice-...
Scientists dismiss the idea of travel through wormholes
Phys.org - 14 Dec 2018 16:40
A RUDN employee and Brazilian colleagues have called into question the concept of using stable wormholes as portals to different points of space-time. The results of the studies were published in Physical Review D.
Can stem cells help a diseased heart heal itself? Researcher achieves important milestone
Science Daily - 14 Dec 2018 19:40
Scientists have taken an important step toward the goal of making diseased hearts heal themselves -- a new model that would reduce the need for bypass surgery, heart transplants or artificial pumping devices.
HIV vaccine protects non-human primates from infection
Science Daily - 14 Dec 2018 19:18
New research shows that an experimental HIV vaccine strategy works in non-human primates. In the study, rhesus macaque monkeys produced neutralizing antibodies against one strain of HIV that resembles the resilient viral...
Prostate cancer: New computer model enables researchers to predict course of disease
Science Daily - 14 Dec 2018 16:38
How does a normal cell turn into a deadly cancer? Seeking an answer to this Question researchers examined the tumor genomes of nearly 300 prostate cancer patients. Their findings describe the ways in which changes in the...
A role for microRNAs in social behavior
Science Daily - 14 Dec 2018 16:38
Researchers have uncovered a microRNA cluster that regulates synaptic strength and is involved in the control of social behavior in mammals. The researchers presume that their discovery may point to new therapeutic strat...
Better superconductors from ceramic copper oxides
Phys.org - 14 Dec 2018 13:26
Medical magnetic resonance imaging, high-power microwave generators, superconducting magnetic energy storage units, and the solenoids in nuclear fusion reactors are very different technologies which all critically rely o...
New properties of sulfur atom discovered
EurekAlert! - 14 Dec 2018 07:00
(University of Málaga) 2019 will be, as proclaimed by the UN, the 'International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements', in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of its creation. Researchers from the Faculty ...
Alzheimer's Protein Accidentally Transmitted to Patients Via Discontinued Medical Treatments
Neuroscience News - 14 Dec 2018 22:52
Researchers report human growth hormone, prepared from human tissue prior to 1985, may have been contaminated with seeds of the amyloid beta protein. In a new study, researchers injected mice with the original c-hGH batc...
Researchers Find Roots of Neuropsychiatric Diseases in Developing Brain
Neuroscience News - 14 Dec 2018 22:07
Researchers found differences in cells types between 16 regions of the brain during development may be key in determining whether genetic risks translate into disorders like ASD, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
A Role For MicroRNAs in Social Behavior
Neuroscience News - 14 Dec 2018 22:00
Researchers report on how a microRNA cluster associated with the regulation of synaptic strength plays a role in controlling social behaviors in mammals.
Parents' Brain Activity Echoes Their Infant's When Playing Together
Neuroscience News - 14 Dec 2018 21:53
When parents play with their child, their brains show similar bursts of brain activity. The activity is linked to their baby's attention patterns, and not their own, researchers report.
Experts Urge U.S. to Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research
Scientific American - 14 Dec 2018 20:00
An international fusion project could help the nation eventually develop its own, smaller reactor --
Half-Size, Ruffle-Headed Relative of Triceratops Discovered
Live Science - 14 Dec 2018 18:20A space playground for the fourth state of matter
Phys.org - 14 Dec 2018 17:30
A recipe to understand atomic structures:
How complexity science can quickly detect climate record anomalies
Phys.org - 14 Dec 2018 17:16
The history of our climate is written in ice. Reading it is a matter of deciphering the complex signals pulled from tens of thousands of years of accumulated isotopes frozen miles below the surface of Antarctica.
A co-worker's rudeness can affect your sleep -- and your partner's
Science Daily - 14 Dec 2018 16:38
A new study found workplace incivilities has the potential to not only negatively affect an employee's sleep but their partner's as well.
Ebola-fighting protein discovered in human cells
Science Daily - 14 Dec 2018 16:38
Researchers have discovered a human protein that helps fight the Ebola virus and could one day lead to an effective therapy against the deadly disease, according to a new study. The newly discovered ability of the human ...
When heat ceases to be a mystery, spintronics becomes more real
Phys.org - 14 Dec 2018 16:02
The development of spintronics depends on materials that guarantee control over the flow of magnetically polarized currents. However, it is hard to talk about control when the details of heat transport through the interf...
It's not so easy to gain the true measure of things
Phys.org - 14 Dec 2018 15:54
I teach measurement - the quantification of things. Some people think this is the most objective of the sciences; just numbers and observations, or what many people call objective facts.
Using Wi-Fi signals to perform analog, wave-based computations
Phys.org - 14 Dec 2018 15:53
A pair of researchers, one with the Langevin Institute, the other a company called Greenerwave, both in France, has developed a way to use ordinary Wi-Fi signals to perform analog, wave-based computations. In their paper...
Magic number colloidal clusters
Phys.org - 14 Dec 2018 15:48
Complexity in nature often results from self-assembly, and is considered particularly robust. Compact clusters of elemental particles can be shown to be of practical relevance, and are found in atomic nuclei, nanoparticl...