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Taming Turbulence
NewsFor scientists wrestling with problems as diverse as containing superhot plasma in a fusion reactor, improving the accuracy of weather forecasts, or probing the unexplained dynamics of a distant galaxy, turbulence-spawning shear flow is a serious complicating factor. A new supercomputer-powered effort aims to make modelling shear far easier.
Smelling the Forest, Not the Trees
NewsAnimals are much better at smelling a complex “soup” of odorants rather than a single pure ingredient, a new study by the University of Sussex has revealed.
Researchers Show How You Can Be Tracked Through Your Location Data
NewsA new study by MIT researchers finds that the growing practice of compiling massive, anonymized datasets about people’s movement patterns is a double-edged sword: While it can provide deep insights into human behavior for research, it could also put people’s private data at risk.
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Sepsis Symptoms that Lead to Death
News Nov 27, 2018While organ dysfunctions within sepsis have been widely studied, the interaction between measures of organ dysfunction remains an understudied area. Recent findings may aid clinical efforts to identify sepsis patients.
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Fertilizer Fuels Rain's Infectious Cargo
News Nov 27, 2018Mathematical modelling has determined the relationship between the time from when it starts to rain until runoff begins taking with it microbes such E. coli from organic fertilizers.
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Corals and their Microbiomes Evolved Together
News Nov 27, 2018Fresh insight in the fight to save the Earth’s embattled coral reefs has shown that corals and the microbes they host evolved together.
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Fake Fingerprints that can Fool Security Systems
News Nov 26, 2018Researchers aided by machine learning have created synthetic fingerprints capable of spoofing smartphone fingerprint sensors.
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Smallholdings More Important to Global Food Production than Previously Thought
News Nov 23, 2018Crowdsourced data has shown that the proportion of smallholder farms may be much larger than previously thought, contributing much more to global food production.
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HIV Persistence During Therapy Mostly Due to Cellular, not Viral, Proliferation
News Nov 23, 2018A majority of the HIV-infected cells that persist in HIV-infected individuals - even during suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART) - originated from cellular proliferation, not viral replication.
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Chemistry Freed From Space and Time
News Nov 23, 2018The internet of things and the cloud are entering the world of chemical research and production. Researchers have used remote servers in Japan to autonomously optimize conditions to synthesize drugs in a British laboratory.
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Bioinformatics Improves Retrieval of Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data
News Nov 23, 2018Single nucleotide variations could be the key to better identification of tumor subpopulations.
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Bioinformatics Improves Retrieval of Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data
News Nov 23, 2018Single nucleotide variations could be the key to better identification of tumor subpopulations.
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Paralysis Patient Plays Beethoven Using New Computer Interface
News Nov 22, 2018Three people with paralysis participating in the BrainGate clinical trial, an effort that includes Brown University researchers, chatted with family and friends, shopped online and used other tablet computer applications, all by just thinking about pointing and clicking a mouse.
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