Olivia, age 3, demonstrates how she is keeping her stuffed animals safe from ‘germs’ using a makeshift face-mask. Image taken during Zoom conversation with lead researcher, Kelsey Graber. Credit: Kelsey…
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NASA’s Curiosity captures Martian morning, afternoon in new ‘postcard’
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture panoramas of “Marker Band Valley” at two times of day on April 8. Color was added to a combination…
Getting to the Bottom of When the Smallest Meson Melts
The Science Theorists have performed calculations to predict the temperature at which bottomonium mesons will melt. Bottomonium mesons are particles made of one of the six types of quark: a…
Medi-Mojis: Emojis Are A Game-Changer in Patient-Physician Communication
Summary: Emojis could revolutionize healthcare communication. These universally appealing and accessible symbols can bypass barriers of language, education, and age, offering an intuitive language system for patient-provider interaction. Researchers argue…
Scientists discover quantum oscillations in correlated insulators
Quantum oscillations in correlated insulator at v = -2. Credit: YANG Wei Quantum oscillations (QOs) of conductance in the magnetic field are widely observed in mesoscopic devices thanks to the…
Mapping the development of infection-fighting immune cells
Cytotoxic T cell (purple) deciding whether to become a memory cell (blue) or effector cell (pink) subtype. The cBAF complex (green) and Arid1a subunit open the doors for both cell…
Bonn climate talks at risk of collapse over 7-day agenda debate
With governments unable to agree on agenda, all the negotiations so far in Bonn could go to waste Seven days into climate talks in the German city of Bonn, governments…
Annual numbers of excess deaths in the US relative to other developed countries are growing at an alarming rate
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea People in the U.S. are dying at higher rates than in other similar high-income countries, and…
Climate Change, Power Chips Spark Submersible Server Trend
A desire for sustainable data center options and a heat wave caused by increasingly powerful computer chips are driving the adoption of systems that cool computers by immersing them in…
