What if we used TikTok as a tool to further scientific research? University of Minnesota computer science Ph.D. student Yasamin Jafarian is doing just that, using data from the app to create more realistic 3D digital avatars.
A computer-guided approach to design can propose more solutions and balance out human inexperience and design fixation.
UC San Diego engineers have developed a low cost, low power technology to help robots accurately map their way indoors, even in poor lighting and without recognizable landmarks or features. The technology uses WiFi signals, instead of light, to help the robot "see" where it’s going.
Press conferences at the 182nd ASA Meeting will be held Tuesday, May 24, at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in Plaza Court 2. Media availabilities will focus on wide range of newsworthy sessions at the upcoming meeting from how racialized identities impact speech perception to the first sounds recorded from the Perseverance rover on Mars. To register for in-person attendance or for more information regarding the livestream, please email [email protected]
Echolocation, biomedicine, engineering, aquatics, and more will be showcased at the 182nd ASA Meeting in Denver, May 23-27. The in-person scientific conference brings together acoustical experts and researchers from around the world to talk about sound experiments and applications in fields as diverse as space exploration, sports, marine biology, cancer therapies, speech perceptions, and many other areas. Reporters are invited to attend the meeting at no cost and participate in a series of press conferences featuring a selection of newsworthy sessions.
The 12 August 2021 South Sandwich Island earthquake had a surprise hidden within its complex rupture sequence: a slow, shallow magnitude 8.16 subevent that was “invisible” to researchers at first glance.
This course provides tools, techniques and insight tailored specifically to the laboratory/research setting.
Can’t resist your pup’s adoring expression when he begs for a treat? A new study reveals key anatomical features that could explain what makes dogs’ faces so appealing. The findings also suggest that humans contributed to dogs’ ability to form facial expressions through thousands of years of selective breeding.
A group of high school students and their instructor have developed an inexpensive faucet attachment to remove lead from drinking water. Their filter indicates when it’s “used up” by turning the tap water yellow. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2022.
Our eyes may be windows on the world, but our fingertips put us in touch with it. Now, scientists report that skin can sense subtle differences in chemistry, which could lead to new ways to control touch and integrate it into applications. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2022.
Diamonds that are only nanometers wide are crucial for drug delivery, sensors and quantum computer processors. Now, scientists report a new method to grow ultra-uniform nanodiamonds, which are important to the success of these technologies. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2022.
Scientists have harnessed fungi to convert food waste into sustainable leather substitutes, yarn and paper products that have properties comparable to the traditional materials. The researchers will present their results today at ACS Spring 2022.
Residential fires take a terrible toll. Today, scientists will describe an environmentally friendly coating that could limit flammability of wood used in construction, providing more time to escape fires and also curbing their spread. The researchers will present their results at ACS Spring 2022.
Today, scientists report data from a phase 3 trial of a psychedelic drug, MDMA, or “ecstasy,” combined with psychotherapy for PTSD treatment. Preliminary data suggest that the therapy works even in patients with drug or alcohol use disorders. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2022.
The goo from okra is known to thicken stews, but it can also clean water of some types of pollutants. Now, researchers report that combinations of okra and other food-grade plant extracts can remove microplastics from wastewater. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2022.
NASA plans to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. The 3-year mission will cause astronauts to lose bone mass. Now, scientists report transgenic lettuce that produces a bone-stimulating hormone, which astronauts might someday grow and eat in space. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2022.
Dogs can sniff out various forms of cancer. Similarly, the roundworm C. elegans wriggles its way toward cancer cells by following an odor trail. Today, scientists report a device that uses the tiny worms to detect lung cancer cells. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2022.
There’s nothing like a cuppa to give your morning a boost. Researchers report the first use of waste coffee grounds as electrode coatings for sensitive neurochemistry measurements, which could help scientists get a better handle on brain activity. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2022.
All of the medicines derived from sponges actually originate from bacteria living within these animals. Today, scientists report that sponges themselves, not their resident microbes, produce at least one promising group of compounds. They will present their results at ACS Spring 2022.
Ice cream can get unpleasantly crunchy when ice crystals grow in it. Scientists report that adding cellulose can stop this growth cold — and the additive works better than current ice growth inhibitors in the face of temperature fluctuations. They will present their results today at ACS Spring 2022.
Leading food safety and nutrition scientists are meeting June 21-23, 2022, at the National Press Club.
Researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have identified a previously unknown bacterial enzyme that can make a new type of polysaccharide similar to the biopolymer chitin. The new molecule is biodegradable and could be useful for drug delivery, tissue engineering and other biomedical applications.
EB, the annual meeting of five scientific societies, brings together thousands of scientists and 25 guest societies in one interdisciplinary community. Join us April 2–5 in Philadelphia for an exciting lineup of live, in-person scientific sessions.
New computer models and simulations from Los Alamos National Laboratory are showing researchers how the virus that causes COVID-19 manages to use its spike protein to fuse with and infect human cells. To be presented at the March meeting of the American Physical Society, the atomistic-level imagery is highly consistent with cryo-electron microscopy data, despite the severe challenges of imaging at such high resolution.
Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis are helping to recover gases from a container of lunar soil that astronauts collected and sealed under vacuum on the surface of the Moon in 1972. The effort is part of NASA’s Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA) initiative. Preliminary science results will be discussed during the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, which will be held in Houston March 7-11.
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University of Washington-led research suggests moon jellies are feasting on zooplankton, the various tiny animals that drift with the currents, in the bays they inhabit. This could affect other hungry marine life, like juvenile salmon or herring — especially if predictions are correct and climate change will favor fast-growing jellyfish.
New research shows turtles can experience temporary hearing loss from an excess of underwater noise. This phenomenon, previously noted in other marine animals such as dolphins and fish, was not widely understood for reptiles and underscores another potential risk for aquatic turtles. This high volume of sound, referred to as underwater noise pollution, can be caused by passing ships and offshore construction.
Disposable face masks could be harmful to wildlife, according to researchers who have observed harmful effects of the masks on keystone marine animals in coastal areas.
Vacation photos of zebras and whales that tourists post on social media may have a benefit they never expected: helping researchers track and gather information on endangered species.
University of Washington researchers showed that image search results for four major search engines from around the world, including Google, still reflect gender bias.
Dr. Benjamin Van Mooy, Woods Hole Oceanographic senior scientist and Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department Chair, is being presented with the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO). ASLO presents the award annually to a scientist who has made considerable contributions to knowledge in their field, and whose work will carry on a legacy in future research.
Scientists share best practices for testing seed quality and breaking dormancy
Celebrated scientists and educators, including Nobel laureates and research pioneers, from across the life sciences will convene at the Experimental Biology (EB) 2022 meeting on April 2–5 in Philadelphia. EB brings together thousands of scientists to explore the latest findings and trends in anatomy, biochemistry, molecular biology, investigative pathology, pharmacology and physiology.
New research looks at why the diversity of soil microbes matter
To explore the inner workings of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2, researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed a novel technique.
Beginning in February 2022, the American Society for Cell Biology launches the inaugural edition of the Emerging Researcher Talk Series. Speakers were selected from a review of the high-ranking abstracts that were submitted for the Cell Bio Virtual 2021 meeting.
Crops aren’t the only ones fighting to adapt to climate change. Weeds are too, and new research can help us identify their strengths and plan for them.
The MiikeMineStamps dataset of stamps provides a unique window into the workings of a large Japanese corporation, opening unprecedented possibilities for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. But some of the stamps in this archive only appear in a small number of instances. This makes for a “long tail” distribution that poses particular challenges for AI learning, including fields in which AI has experienced serious failures. A collaboration between scientists at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), PSC, DeepMap Inc. of California and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) took up this challenge, using PSC’s Bridges and Bridges-2 systems to build a new machine learning (ML) based tool for analyzing “long tail” distributions.
City living translates to an extra two to six hours of uncomfortable weather per day in the summer for people in much of the United States. The gap between rural and urban gets larger as the temperature rises.
The router in your home might be intercepting some of your Internet traffic and sending it to a different destination. Specifically, the router can intercept the Domain Name System traffic --the communications used to translate human-readable domain names (for example www.google.com) into the numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that the Internet relies on. That’s the finding from a team of computer scientists at the University of California San Diego, which they presented at the Internet Measurement Conference on Nov. 3, 2021.
The moon may be a mostly uniform expanse of gray, but if you look closely, you can still find a few nooks and crannies in its surface, from deep trenches to pits and maybe even caves.
New research shows that machine learning — computer algorithms that improve themselves without direct programming by humans — can be used to improve forecasts for lightning, one of the most destructive forces of nature.
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