Quantcast

Latest News

How Quickly Do Algorithms Improve?

MIT scientists show how fast algorithms are improving across a broad range of examples, demonstrating their critical importance in advancing computing.

Researchers Find A New Way To Control Magnets

Reversible system can flip the magnetic orientation of particles with a small voltage; could lead to faster data storage and smaller sensors.

Captured Water, Carbon Dioxide From Car Exhaust Could Help Grow Food

Texas A&M researchers have a novel idea to capture waste from passenger vehicle exhaust for use in urban greenhouses for food production.

Texas A&M Neuroscientists Discover Possible Treatment For Victims Of Chemical Warfare

The approach might also be beneficial for anyone exposed to lethal chemical agents, including those involved in the pest control and agricultural industries.

To Colonize Different Environments, Bacteria Precisely Tune Their Nanomotors

Texas A&M researchers have described the mechanisms that enable bacteria to adapt to varying viscosities in their environment.

5 Strategies To Counter Politicized COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Texas A&M researcher Timothy H. Callaghan and colleagues propose five short-term steps to prioritize health over politics.

Coral Cryopreservation For Breeding Key To Survival

Flash-frozen sperm collected from corals in Florida and Puerto Rico was used to fertilize coral eggs from hundreds of miles away in Curaçao.

One’s Connection To Nature Examined In Public Health Research

Feeling connected to nature or the environment is important for health, and new public health research from the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa examines how these feelings of connection can be measured.

ʻOpihi Growth Patterns Influenced By Hawaiian Intertidal Environment

Crashing waves and water temperature along rocky shorelines strongly influence the growth patterns of the yellowfoot limpet (Cellana sandwicensis), or ʻopihi ʻālinalina, an intertidal species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

Vaccine Candidates For Ebola, Other Filoviruses Show Promise

Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) have demonstrated the efficacy in monkeys of multiple vaccine candidates targeting three filoviruses causing life-threatening infections to humans: Ebola virus, Sudan virus and Marburg virus.

Linguist Challenges Conventional Beliefs On ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi Origins

A paper by a University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo linguist who specializes in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) challenges conventional understandings about the origins of Hawaiian and other East Polynesian languages.

Marine Expert Says More, Larger Protected Areas Needed In Hawaiʻi

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are locations designed to protect the oceans’ valuable resources. New guidelines co-authored by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa expert aim to assist stewards of the world’s oceans, including in Hawaiʻi, with establishing and maintaining effective MPAs.

COVID-19 Pandemic Increased Maternal Mortality In Mexico

A Texas A&M study shows that COVID-19, hemorrhage and hypertension were the country's leading causes of maternal deaths in a one-year period.

Inequities In Asthma Health For Native Hawaiian Keiki

New public health research shows that emergency department (ED) visits by Native Hawaiian children with asthma account for the largest proportion of the total statewide costs for potentially preventable visits for children’s asthma

Weather, Ocean Currents Key To Fish Spawning In Micronesia

Larval fish are spawned in a given location and may be recruited into their next life stage—larger, older fish—in the same place or a distant location.

Nanofiber Filter Captures Almost 100% Of Coronavirus Aerosols

The filter could help curb airborne spread of COVID-19 virus

Eating Spinach Could Protect Against Colon Cancer, Texas A&M Study Says

Researchers believe a diet rich in spinach can significantly reduce the formation of colon tumors.

Cleaner Water Through Corn

Activated carbon made from corn stover filters 98% of a pollutant from water

Tweaking Alloy Microchemistry For Flawless Metal 3D Printing

Researchers at Texas A&M have fine-tuned the process for creating defect-free metal parts using a laser bed powder fusion 3D printing technique.