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Here's a look at news and numbers related to the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in the United States.

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Optical fibers enable our era of the internet, as they carry vast amounts of data all around the world. Fibers are also an excellent sensor platform. They can reach over hundreds of kilometers, simply embedded within str...

Nowadays, artificial neural networks have an impact on many areas of our day-to-day lives. They are used for a wide variety of complex tasks, such as driving cars, performing speech recognition (for example, Siri, Cortan...

Researchers have generated a wide range of colors from a single laser after discovering a new process for achieving so-called "supercontinuum generation."

(Clemson University) A Clemson University biophysics faculty member and a team of international researchers have developed and demonstrated a new optical imaging method to monitor a single molecule in action. Their fluor...

Scanning people's brains when watching videos, researchers found both neural and behavioral responses to the content could predict how long others would watch the same video on the internet.

Viruses have been well studied, but many mysteries linger. One such mystery is how a spherical virus circumvents energy barriers to form symmetric shells. A research team has made progress is solving this mystery. The te...

What we learn through our senses drives how knowledge is sorted in our brains, according to new research.

A concept known as 'fragile topology' has been puzzling physicists ever since it emerged two years ago. Two teams of physicists have now developed a comprehensive theoretical and experimental framework to pin down the es...

Being of an older age, showing signs of sepsis, and having blood clotting issues when admitted to hospital are key risk factors associated with higher risk of death from the new coronavirus (COVID-19), according to a new...

Researchers have developed a method for predicting circulatory failure in patients in intensive care units -- enabling clinicians to intervene at an early stage. Their approach uses machine learning methods to evaluate a...

By March 1, 2020, thousands of people in the U.S. may have already been infected by the COVID-19 coronavirus, far more than the number that had been publicly reported, according to a new study. However, the findings also...

Scientists say they have successfully turned back the biological hands of time, coaxing adult human cells in the laboratory to revert to a primitive state, and unlocking their potential to replace and repair damage to bl...

A new theory suggests that dark matter might not be made of undiscovered, never-before-seen particles. Instead, researchers write, it might be made from a type of "hexaquark" detected in 2014.

Researchers report the median time from exposure to symptoms for the COVID-19 virus is 5.1 days. 97.5% of people who develop symptoms of coronavirus will do so within 11.5 days of exposure. For every 10,000 people quaran...

Flocks of starlings that produce dazzling patterns across the sky are natural examples of active matter--groups of individual agents coming together to create collective dynamics. In a study featured on the cover of the ...

The current confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. represent an undercount.

We may be one step closer to a universal flu vaccine, according to a new study.

Cognitive challenges trigger a slight oxygen deficit in hippocampal pyramidal neurons. This increases the production of erythropoietin (Epo) and its receptors in the active neurons, stimulating neighboring precursor cell...

Investing in an experience, such as attending a sports event or eating at a restaurant, generates more personal happiness than splashing out on material good, a new study reports.

A robot can recreate the mechanism plants use to transport water to bend itself towards the sun and open its leaves like a real plant