Science News
IBM's New Software Will Make Quantum Programs Run 100 Times Faster
Singularity Hub - 15 Feb 2021 19:00
The companies building quantum computers have made incredible progress in recent years, and the hardware is only half the problem. Now industry leader IBM has shared its vision of how we’re going to develop the softwar...
Who should get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine over the mRNA vaccines?
Live Science - 15 Feb 2021 16:00
Each vaccine has its pros and cons, but all work extremely well.
Giant hair ball tears through teen's stomach, requiring surgery
Live Science - 15 Feb 2021 16:00
The hair ball was more than a foot long and completely filled her stomach.
New video captures discovery of spongy animals deep under Antarctic ice
Live Science - 15 Feb 2021 15:00
All the knowledge we have of these animals comes from a single video.
New Immunotherapy Target Discovered for Malignant Brain Tumors
Neuroscience News - 16 Feb 2021 01:39
Disabling the CD161 pathway restores the T-cell's ability to attack gliomas and extends lifespan in animal models of brain cancer.
Mid-Life Cardiovascular Disease Prevention May Protect Against Later Dementia
Neuroscience News - 16 Feb 2021 01:06
Preventative strategies against atherosclerosis during mid-life can help decrease dementia risks associated with aging.
New surgery may enable better control of prosthetic limbs
Science Daily - 16 Feb 2021 01:04
Researchers and surgeons have devised a new type of amputation surgery that can help amputees better control their residual muscles and receive sensory feedback. This restored sense of proprioception should translate to ...
Visual Hallucinations Among Blind People Increase During Pandemic
Neuroscience News - 16 Feb 2021 00:08
Loneliness, stress, and social isolation as a result of COVID-19 exacerbated and intensified visual hallucinations in blind people with Charles Bonnet Syndrome by 56%.
We have spotted two planets orbiting a backwards-spinning star
New Scientist - 16 Feb 2021 00:00
In the K2-290 planetary system, 897 light years away, two planets orbit a star in one direction while the star itself spins roughly the opposite way
Peeking at the Pathfinding Strategies of the Hippocampus
Neuroscience News - 15 Feb 2021 23:33
Researchers observed hippocampal place cell changes in animal experiments of cue-poor and cue-rich spatial environments. The findings have implications for the treatment of brain disorders and the development of new AI t...
Lower Testosterone During Puberty Increases the Brain's Sensitivity to It in Adulthood
Neuroscience News - 15 Feb 2021 23:03
Lower levels of testosterone during puberty increases the brain's sensitivity to faces and expressions during adulthood.
Cocoa Flavanols May Boost Memory in Older People
Neuroscience News - 15 Feb 2021 22:38
Cocoa flavanols, naturally occurring compounds in cocoa beans, may help improve cognition and memory in older people.
Covid-19 news: Seven coronavirus variants identified in the US
New Scientist - 15 Feb 2021 21:48
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic
Cheap, potent pathway to pandemic therapeutics
Science Daily - 15 Feb 2021 20:03
By capitalizing on a convergence of chemical, biological and artificial intelligence advances, scientists have developed an unusually fast and efficient method for discovering tiny antibody fragments with big potential f...
Moiré patterns facilitate discovery of novel insulating phases
Phys.org - 15 Feb 2021 20:00
Materials having excess electrons are typically conductors. However, moiré patterns--interference patterns that typically arise when one object with a repetitive pattern is placed over another with a similar pattern--ca...
Light used to detect quantum information stored in 100,000 nuclear quantum bits
Phys.org - 15 Feb 2021 20:00
Researchers have found a way to use light and a single electron to communicate with a cloud of quantum bits and sense their behavior, making it possible to detect a single quantum bit in a dense cloud.
Two-dimensional superconductivity and anisotropic transport at potassium tantalate interfaces
Phys.org - 15 Feb 2021 18:50
Unique electronic structures found at materials interfaces can allow unconventional quantum states to emerge. In a new report on Science, Changjiang Liu and a research team at the Argonne National Laboratory, University ...
Aspirin preferred to prevent blood clots in kids after heart surgery, study suggests
Science Daily - 15 Feb 2021 18:24
Aspirin should be favoured over warfarin to prevent blood clotting in children who undergo a surgery that replumbs their hearts, according to a new study.
A machine-learning approach to finding treatment options for COVID-19
Science Daily - 15 Feb 2021 18:24
Researchers have developed a machine-learning approach to identify drugs that could be repurposed to fight COVID-19. The advance could boost clinical trial efforts, and it could be adapted to a broader range of diseases.
Commuters are inhaling unacceptably high levels of carcinogens
Science Daily - 15 Feb 2021 18:24
New research shows the average commuter in California is breathing unsustainably high levels of benzene and formaldehyde, two Prop. 65-listed, carcinogenic chemicals.
Researchers explore using light to levitate discs in the mesosphere
Phys.org - 15 Feb 2021 18:19
A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has found that it is possible to levitate very thin discs in conditions that mimic the mesosphere using laser light. In their paper published in the journal Science...
The Pierre Auger Observatory shares 10% of data
Symmetry Magazine - 15 Feb 2021 18:03
The observatory has made detailed information about an initial selection of its recorded cosmic-ray events available for outside scientists to use. In Argentina, far to the west of Buenos Aires, sits the world's largest ...