Since the coronavirus pandemic began more than a year ago, only one antiviral drug, remdesivir, has been approved in the United States for treatment of COVID-19, but it barely works and is toxic to the liver. After conducting a one-of-a-kind screen of drugs already approved or in the approval process […]
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Just as pressing a guitar string produces a higher pitch, sending laser light through a material can shift it to higher energies and higher frequencies. Now scientists have discovered how to use this phenomenon to explore quantum materials in a new and much more detailed way. Topological insulators are one […]
An international team of scientists from universities in Europe and South Africa found that “Sacred Forests” in Togo, West Africa play a vital role in the storage of carbon and could help to mitigate the effects of climate change. It is important to preserve the soil in these forests, which […]
As long as new trends in education start rolling, that is what NTU will look like in the future. What is the “future university” going to look like? No one has a definite answer for sure. With the changing times, plenty of variables and innovations have opened new possibilities for […]
Nal’ibali, the South African reading-for-enjoyment campaign, is inviting caregivers across the country to partake in World Read Aloud Day, where the chosen book was authored by a University of Cape Town (UCT) alum. The official South African story this year, Fly, everyone (Afrika), fly, was commissioned by Nal’ibali and written by Sihle […]
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a type of neural network that learns on the job, not just during its training phase. These flexible algorithms, dubbed “liquid” networks, change their underlying equations to continuously adapt to new data inputs. The advance could aid decision making based on data […]
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver tumor with an increasing global incidence. In 2018, HCC was the sixth most frequently diagnosed cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Sorafenib is the first FDA-approved targeted therapy for advanced HCC. A previous study showed that sorafenib […]
As the Thai government races to secure more COVID-19 vaccines from various sources, a group of medical scientists is preparing for the first clinical trial of a home-grown cure they are developing to fight the pandemic. In April, they expect to inject 72 volunteers aged between 18 and 75 with […]
During the Fall 2020 semester, students in the NYU Gallatin course “NYC Coastlines, Past: Present, and Future” became the only citizen scientists to collect oyster monitoring data from the Hudson River for The River Project’s entire 2020 season, which suffered from a lack of volunteers due to the pandemic. The course, which […]
Princeton University researchers are partners on a major initiative to help shape the next generation of computer networks. The effort, known as Project Pronto, aims to build and test new types of flexible, programmable networks to advance network security, performance and innovation. As fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks connect a growing number […]
