Science News
AI autotune makes your terrible karaoke singing more tolerable
New Scientist - 16 Feb 2019 10:00
Autotune can often sound robotic because it shifts off notes into perfect pitch, a new version listens to the notes you've already sung and uses them to help fill in the gaps
Immersive Virtual Reality Therapy Shows Lasting Effect in Phobia Treatments For Children with ASD
Neuroscience News - 16 Feb 2019 22:42
Researchers report children on the autism spectrum who experience specific phobias may benefit from immersive virtual reality therapy. The study reports immersive VR helped almost 45% of children with ASD remain free fro...
Brain Connections That Disadvantage Night Owls Revealed
Neuroscience News - 16 Feb 2019 21:59
A new MRI study reveals those who get to sleep and wake up late have lower resting brain connectivity in regions associated with the maintenance of consciousness. Researchers report the reduced brain connectivity is link...
PET/CT imaging agent shows promise for better diagnosis of acute venous thromboembolism
Science Daily - 16 Feb 2019 16:45
Researchers report that a new nuclear medicine tracer may allow better diagnosis of acute venous thromboembolism (VTE). Acute VTE is a disease that includes deep-vein thrombosis and its complication, pulmonary embolism, ...
Push-up capacity linked with lower incidence of cardiovascular disease events among men
Science Daily - 16 Feb 2019 16:45
Active, middle-aged men able to complete more than 40 push-ups had a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes -- including diagnoses of coronary artery disease and major events such as heart fail...
Rarely Glimpsed Scaly Pangolins Caught Hugging Trees in the Dark
Live Science - 16 Feb 2019 14:53Why Men Who Can Do 40 Pushups May Have Better Heart Health
Live Science - 16 Feb 2019 14:52Large-scale window material developed for PM2.5 capture and light tuning
EurekAlert! - 16 Feb 2019 07:00
(University of Science and Technology of China) A research team from University of Science and Technology of China develops a simple and economical process to fabricate large-scale flexible smart windows.
How to feed the world by 2050? Recent breakthrough boosts plant growth by 40 percent
EurekAlert! - 16 Feb 2019 07:00
(Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Recent advances to address hunger through agricultural discovery will be highlighted at this year's annual meeting of the AAAS. Se...
This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through February 16)
Singularity Hub - 16 Feb 2019 17:00
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI Is Reinventing the Way We Invent David Rotman | MIT Technology Review “i‘This is where the action is,’ Alán Aspuru-Guzik says. ‘AIs that drive cars, AIs that improve medical diagnostic...
Tiny fibers create unseen plastic pollution
EurekAlert! - 16 Feb 2019 07:00
(Penn State) While the polyester leisure suit was a 1970s mistake, polyester and other synthetic fibers like nylon are still around and are a major contributor to the microplastics load in the environment, according to a...
Engineered metasurfaces reflect waves in unusual directions
EurekAlert! - 16 Feb 2019 07:00
(Aalto University) Researchers at Aalto University have developed new metasurfaces for the arbitrary manipulation of reflected waves, essentially breaking classical reflection law to engineer it at will.