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New cutting-edge research undertaken at the University of Leicester could revolutionise the way new drugs are developed and the way patients are cared for, through a pioneering new approach using virtual clinical trials New cutting-edge…

Researchers have succeeded in making an AI understand our subjective notions of what makes faces attractiveCredit: Cognitive computing research group Researchers have succeeded in making an AI understand our subjective notions of what…

New York, NY (March 5, 2021) - Overweight children who were exposed to lead in utero and during their first weeks of life have the potential for poorer kidney function in adulthood, according to an Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai…

News from the Journal of Marketing Researchers from University of Houston and University of Bochum published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines how variable compensation plans for salespeople can lead to lower health.…

Wakeel, from Lehigh University's College of Health, will discuss how to frame population health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic using maternal and child health epidemiological approaches at the 'Data Science for Social Good'…

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Recent efforts to support businesses reeling from revenues lost during the pandemic, such as grants and loan programs, have been criticized for favoring larger companies. New research finds that federal agencies get…

Researchers engineer 1st technique to exploit the tunable symmetry of 2D materials for nonlinear optical applications: laser, optical spectroscopy, imaging, and metrology systems, and next-generation optical quantum information processing…

Credit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND (March 5, 2021)--An international team of bioethicists and scientists, led by a researcher at Case Western Reserve University, contends it may be justified to go beyond the standing…

This study evaluates the relationship between the various possible pathways at the start of working life with future absenteeism due to mental disorders in a sample of salaried workersCredit: Adapted from The Noun Project A new…

HOUSTON - (March 4, 2021) - Federal and state governments auction leases to oil and gas companies to extract natural resources from public land. A revamp of the auction system -- utilizing a new model developed by a Rice University…

March 4, 2021 -- Pandemic-related anxiety, boredom, and irregular routines were cited as major drivers of increased nicotine and tobacco use during the initial COVID-19 "lockdown," according to research just released by Columbia…

Such a plant would impact the transition to a low-carbon emission electrical systemCredit: Photos and collage by Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications. The U.S. should immediately invest in resolving the scientific and technical…

Credit: Timur Sabirov/Skoltech Scientists from Skoltech and MSU have investigated antibiotic nybomycin that could prove effective against bacteria resistant to other antibiotics. Their research was published in the journal…

Study shows 30% of moms got conflicting advice on eating the same food their infant is allergic to ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (March 4, 2021) - Many new mothers with infants want very much to breastfeed as it is the gold standard for early…

A group of people with sleep disorders have helped researchers from Aarhus make an important discovery about Parkinson's disease. The study could pave the way for new diagnostic tools and forms of treatment in the future Parkinson's disease…

Credit: Photo courtesy of Hui Hu/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Wind turbine blades spinning through cold, wet conditions can collect ice nearly a foot thick on the yard-wide tips of their blades. That disrupts blade…

A rocky planet discovered in the Virgo constellation could change how we look for life in the universeCredit: RenderArea, https://renderarea.com A newly discovered planet could be our best chance yet of studying rocky planet…

Research suggests caregiver attention linked to greater PTSD symptoms COLUMBUS, Ohio - For Black girls in the juvenile justice system, attention from a caregiver might amount to too much of a bad thing, a recent study suggests. Though…

University of Rochester meta-study finds some positive results for the experimental real-time fMRI neurofeedback approach In recent years, researchers have begun using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) not just for better…

Powerful new instrument at Gemini North helps measure properties of nearby exoplanetCredit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/ J.Pollard, Alison Peck, A. Seifahrt, renderarea.com, ESO/L. Calçada/spaceengine.org. Music:…