Science & Technology
Researchers craft new way to make high-temperature superconductors — with a twist
An international team has developed a new method to make and manipulate a widely studied class of high-temperature superconductors. This technique should pave the way for the creation of unusual forms of superconductivity in previously unattainable mat…
Study suggests secret for getting teens to listen to unsolicited advice
A new study may hold a secret for getting your teenager to listen to appreciate your unsolicited advice. The study, which included ’emerging adults’ — those in their late teens and early 20s — found teens will appreciate parents’ unsolicited advice, …
Machine learning informs a new tool to guide treatment for acute decompensated heart failure
A recent study utilized a machine learning-based approach to identify, understand, and predict diuretic responsiveness in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF).
Scientists pinpoint growth of brain’s cerebellum as key to evolution of bird flight
Evolutionary biologists report they have combined PET scans of modern pigeons along with studies of dinosaur fossils to help answer an enduring question in biology: How did the brains of birds evolve to enable them to fly?
A green alternative for treating Streptococcus iniae bacteria in hybrid striped bass
Scientists have developed a green antibiotic alternative to treat the deadly pathogen Streptococcus iniae in hybrid striped bass, the fourth most farmed finfish in the United States, according to a recent study.
As cities grow, how will city trash, wastewater, and emissions rise?
A team of researchers, in an analysis of waste products — municipal solid waste, wastewater, and greenhouse gas emissions — from more than 1,000 cities around the world has concluded that cities with a higher per-capita GDP generate more waste, which…
A tie between the most common obesity surgeries
The two most common obesity surgeries — gastric bypass and gastric sleeve — have few short-term complications and are equivalent in that sense.
Maternal pulse recording during childbirth prevents encephalopathy in newborn babies
External heart rate monitoring, the most common method of monitoring the fetus, may leave signs of fetal hypoxia undetected if the maternal pulse rate is not simultaneously monitored. The risk is that the fetal heart rate is masked by the maternal puls…
Superfluids could share characteristic with common fluids
Every fluid — from Earth’s atmosphere to blood pumping through the human body — has viscosity, a quantifiable characteristic describing how the fluid will deform when it encounters some other matter. If the viscosity is higher, the fluid flows calmly…
Geoengineering may slow Greenland ice sheet loss
Modeling shows that stratospheric aerosol injection has the potential to reduce ice sheet loss due to climate change.