For The Better

The balsam woolly adelgid, a tiny nonnative flightless insect, is spreading across the American West killing subalpine fir in northern Utah’s recreation-heavy mountain ranges and canyons. Rsearchers document a close association between the pest’s sprea…

Researchers present a novel framework that uses image-mining techniques and machine learning algorithms to identify flaws in counterfeit coins. The researchers’ framework uses fuzzy association rules mining to find patterns that are similar but ‘fuzzy,…

A new system could enable simple, low-cost detectors for monitoring water for lead contamination, and potentially other heavy metals as well.

Scientists have documented the benefits of lactate burning in exercising humans, but few studies have looked at the role of lactate during rest or after a meal. Exercise physiologists challenged fasting men and women with a carbohydrate meal and then m…

A research team has revealed the link between the frequency of sleep apnea events during the rapid-eye-movement stage and the severity of verbal memory impairment in older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Verbal memory refers to the cognitive ab…

Researchers have recast diffusion in multicomponent alloys as a sum of individual contributions, called ‘kinosons.’ Using machine learning to compute the statistical distribution of the individual contributions, they were able to model the alloy and ca…

A new study shows that chlorine mixed with petroleum in water can potentially produce inadvertent byproducts harmful to human health.