24-Jan-2025 Bird flu basics from a Rutgers Health Infectious Disease expert Rutgers University The disease is decimating bird populations and spreading into mammals, but human infections remain rare.
24-Jan-2025 Parenting through disaster: How California’s wildfires are affecting children and families University of Southern California As families cope with the loss of homes, schools and communities, USC experts offer guidance to help parents and children make sense of tragedy, protect their health and find hope.
23-Jan-2025 Hearing the Invisible: the inspiration behind the installation University of Arizona Health Sciences Scientists find inspiration in myriad ways: Alexander Fleming’s moldy petri dish led him to discover penicillin; Isaac Newton’s observation of an apple falling from a tree led him to write the laws of motion and the universal law of gravitation. For University of Arizona Health SciencesComprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction member Tally Largent-Milnes, PhD, a beloved children’s book sent her on a quest to hear the invisible symphony being played inside the brain.
23-Jan-2025 ‘Understanding uncertainty as a driver of innovation’ Bielefeld University Russia's invasion of Ukraine, debates about migration, and the consequences of the pandemic show how quickly supposed certainties can vanish. Right-wing populist parties cunningly exploit this lack of orientation. Bielefeld University’s Center for Uncertainty Studies (CeUS) is researching how we deal with and navigate such ubiquitous uncertainty.
23-Jan-2025 Mining the dark sky with the Aurora exascale supercomputer DOE/Argonne National Laboratory As part of the Aurora Early Science Program, an Argonne team is using the lab’s new Aurora exascale supercomputer and AI tools to perform simulations of the universe that aim to shed light on dark matter and dark energy.
23-Jan-2025 New telescope to set sail for monthlong journey to Chile Cornell University The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) will be loaded onto a transatlantic shipping vessel in Antwerp, Belgium, at the end of January for a month-long voyage by sea to its home: Chile, just below the summit of Cerro Chajnantor where, at 18,400 feet, it will be the second-highest telescope in the world.
23-Jan-2025 SafeRBot to assist community, police in crime reporting University of Illinois School of Information Sciences A new chatbot, SafeRBot, designed and developed by researchers in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks to improve the reporting process for non-emergency situations for both community members and 911 dispatch centers. SafeRBot is a Large Language Model (LLM) that aids dispatch centers in providing community members a method for reporting their situations through a series of consistent questions and answers, both informational and empathetic, when crimes are reported online. The unique strengths of SafeRBot are that it turns unstructured chats into a structured form, supports both English and non-English speakers, and automatically asks follow-up questions to improve the quality of the report.
23-Jan-2025 A “quad-demic” warning: Symptoms of viral influenza, COVID-19, norovirus, and RSV can also be signs of potential heart complications The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine Mount Sinai cardiologists warn about the risk of heart problems during surge of winter viruses for American Heart Month in February
23-Jan-2025 Making maternity safer National Center for Supercomputing Applications Resolving maternal healthcare disparity requires gaining insight into underlying causes in order to create an effective plan to address it. In that spirit, the UIC Department of Medicine announced a new maternal research center in July. NCSA researchers helped launch the center and are assisting the newly launched center with solving maternal health disparity problems through novel approaches using geospatial mapping.
23-Jan-2025 Development of a 2-liter ammonia-fueled engine National Research Council of Science & Technology The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), announced that it has developed the world's first engine capable of directly injecting ammonia into the combustion chamber at high pressure, in collaboration with the Electrification Engineering Center of Hyundai Motor and Kia. Funder Ministry of Science and ICT
