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Meta analysis confirms comorbidity increases risk for COVID patients

March 31, 2021
News
New research shows how comorbidities increase risks for COVID patients following a review of more than fifty studies involving over 100,000 patients. Comorbidities such as heart disease, respiratory disease, renal...
Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Oncology, Virology
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Jordan’s water crisis should be a warning for the world

March 31, 2021
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It is very easy to take tap water for granted. But sobering predictions of recent research around Jordan's water supply, where climate change, population growth, intensifying water use, demographic shocks...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Geology, Geophysics, Oceanography, Policy
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Industrialisation of fundamental physics research advances light source and sensor technologies

March 29, 2021
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Collaboration between specialist academic research and industrial expert engineers is proving key to the accelerated transfer of research knowledge from lab to market and the advancement of real world light...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, Engineering, Materials, Materials Science, Physics, Solid State Physics
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CERN results may violate the standard model of particle physics

March 23, 2021
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New results from CERN's Large Hadron Collider, beauty (LHCb) strengthen hints of a violation of lepton flavour universality and suggest the existence of a new fundamental particle or interaction. Comparisons...
Physics & Engineering
Energy, Particle Physics, Physics
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Positive ‘tipping points’ offer hope for climate

March 22, 2021
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Climate change mitigation is forever a balancing act. Environmental experts are beginning to unveil positive 'tipping points' that could spark cascading changes that accelerate action on climate change. A tipping...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Biology, Developmental Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Geology, Geophysics, Oceanography, Policy, Soil Science, Tectonics, Volcanology
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Machine learning plus vital signs provides objective patient pain levels

March 18, 2021
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Describing pain from zero to ten is currently as good as it gets on the hospital floor when it comes to understanding a patient's pain levels and is very subjective....
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Computer Science, Developmental Biology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Physiology
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Team ice’ uncover crucial information to aid the development of new more active cryoprotectants

March 17, 2021
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Researchers uncover new understanding around the interactions between synthetic polymers and ice formation, underpinning new understanding around the fundamental principles of ice re-crystallisation. This crucial piece to the puzzle was...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Biotech, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Environment, Environmental, Environmental Chemistry, Food & Bev, Food Science, Geophysics, Green Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science, Medical/Health, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Organic Chemistry, Physics, Solid State Physics, Thermodynamics
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Tracking mosquito flight patterns in 3D using digital holography and mathematics

March 12, 2021
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Researchers have been asked to use large field-of-view digital holography to accurately apply 3D tracking to mosquito flight. By capturing the diffraction pattern of mosquitoes in a telecentric volume, the...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Biophysics, Biotech, Biotechnology, Botany, Environment, Environmental, Life Sciences, Medical/Health, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Zoology
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The chronicles of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance continued – the first test drives

March 12, 2021
News
During it's first week on the planet's surface, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover and its Earthbound team has been carefully test driving all onboard systems. This culminated in a more...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Astrophysics, Computer Science, Environment, Physics
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Bringing DNA sequencing to the frontlines in the fight against anti-microbial resistance

March 10, 2021
News
The future may see DNA sequencing as a routine bacterial diagnostic technique in hospitals and clinical care settings. An interdisciplinary network of academics and industry experts aim to bring the...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Haematology, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Proteomics & Genomics, Virology
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Crowd research recovers biodiversity as 17 previously lost plant species are rehabilitated

March 9, 2021
News
Imagine rediscovering not one, but seventeen species that had been designated as extinct? A well organised network of researchers across research institutions, universities, museums, botanic gardens and biobanks has demonstrated...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biology, Botany, Environment
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Towards ‘Zero Leprosy’ – model shows 40 million people need preventive treatment

March 5, 2021
News
As the world considers strategies towards 'Zero COVID', research specialists also continue to work on eliminating the many other infectious diseases we have learned to 'live with'. Now, new research...
Chemistry, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Cell Biology, Covid-19, Developmental Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Genetics, Health, Health/Diagnostics, Immunology, Life Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Medical/Health, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Physiology, Policy
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