PET Imaging Reveals Link Between Synapses and Social and Communicative Differences in Autistic Adults
Yale School of Medicine
Ever since he was a boy, Michael Ibarra was fascinated by the human brain – its complexities, its secrets. Now, at age 32, he is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at UT Southwestern, and he has come face to face with one of the most complex and deadly medical mysteries in his field, ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The new design software developed by an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign takes your concept and requirements and rapidly generates design configurations from conventional to out-of-this-world, including a 3D CAD model and performance evaluations.
In this episode of Curious by Nature, we sat down with Dr. Elise Wang, an assistant professor at Cal State University, Fullerton, and a medievalist who specialized in the literature, history, and lore of the medieval period. Dr. Wang discussed her work teaching early literature courses and her research into conspiracy theories, examining them as narratives.
Biostatistician secures R25 grant renewal from the National Cancer Institute
Environmental health expert partners with community action group to create positive change, affect policy.
A new study, co-led by researchers from the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory (APHEL) at the UC Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health, reveals that vaping can interfere with the normal coupling between blood flow and pressure as blood flows from the heart to the arteries.
Allison Aiken, a staff scientist in the Earth and Environmental Sciences division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is the lead of a new Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility campaign called Desert-Urban SysTem IntegratEd AtmospherIc Monsoon, or DUSTIEAIM, in the Southwestern United States. This campaign will take place in Phoenix from April 2026 to September 2027, and will utilize an ARM mobile atmospheric observatory to collect continuous data over the course of 18 months.
The rise of AI has amplified the need for responsible stewardship of new technologies, ushering in challenges that require engineers' expertise to solve.NYU Tandon School of Engineering researchers are doing just that, with the support of Google’s Cyber NYC Institutional Research Program (IRP). In June 2023, Google allocated a total of $12 million through Cyber NYC IRP, funding cybersecurity training, education, and cutting-edge research at NYU, City University of New York, Columbia University, and Cornell Tech.
Updated findings to a long-term international study on workers in the nuclear sector to assess their risks of cancer and non-cancerous diseases.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched its Neutron Nexus pilot program with Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, or FAMU, and Florida State University, or FSU, through the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. The first program of its kind nationwide, it’s aimed at broadening and diversifying the scientific user community with outreach to universities and colleges to increase collaboration and, ultimately, scientific advancement.
Findings call for urgent need to disaggregate data among Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans populations in California
A research team from the University of California, Irvine is the first to reveal that a molecule in the brain – ophthalmic acid – unexpectedly acts like a neurotransmitter similar to dopamine in regulating motor function, offering a new therapeutic target for Parkinson’s and other movement diseases.
A multi-country, government-led initiative dedicated to advancing the global transition to a sustainable, bio-based economy, unveiled a new Global Biomass Resource Assessment, providing groundbreaking data on current and future sustainable biomass supplies around the world.