AWS, Microsoft Offer New Open Source AI Framework
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft on Thursday announced the availability of Gluon, an open source deep learning library for building artificial intelligence neural networks. The Gluo...
Air quality-monitoring satellite in orbit
Applications Air quality-monitoring satellite in orbit 13/10/2017 13640 views 128 likes The first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere, Sentinel‑5P, has been la...
5 benefits of contributing to open source projects
Today, a number of Workday Services are deployed on OpenStack. Companies can focus efforts on adding—and leveraging—features that will benefit businesses based on experience with wha...
3-D packaging of DNA regulates cell identity
Genomic regions containing cardiac genes are released from the nuclear periphery upon differentiation of stem cells into cardiac myocytes. A new study from the Perelman School of Med...
Virtual humans work better than current ways to identify post-traumatic stress in soldiers: Computer-generated interviewers combine anonymity with social rapport to help troops open up about mental he
A computer-generated ‘human’ interviewer combines the advantages of anonymity with social connection and rapport, which could help soldiers to reveal more about their mental health s...
Rosetta’s ever-changing view of a comet
These 210 images reflect Rosetta’s ever-changing view of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko between July 2014 and September 2016. The subsequent images, taken by Rosetta, reflect the va...
Researchers pursue low-cost, efficient technologies for hydrogen generation
Credit: US Department of Energy While hydrogen is often talked about as a pollution-free fuel of the future, especially for use in fuel cell electric vehicles, hydrogen can be used ...
Researchers discuss the future impact of today’s nanotech research
Credit: Northwestern University World-renowned nanoscientists and chemists Chad Mirkin, the Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) at Northwestern Universi...
Report: solar power is the fastest growing source of new energy
In 2016, renewable energy accounted for two-thirds of all new power added to the world’s grid, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) — with more solar brough...
Preparing to fly Sentinel-5P
Enabling & Support Preparing to fly Sentinel-5P 26/09/2017 3932 views 63 likes The teams that will fly Sentinel-5P are training intensively for launch, ensuring that everyone kn...
Pioneering discovery of an odor-detecting receptor enhancer
On the other hand, class II sensory neurons activate other class II enhancers (white circle, H element is yellow or blue). Credit: Junji Hirota Each odor-detecting neuron (referred ...
Oxford, UK to create first zero-emissions zone in the world
Oxford, England, with its history of learning dating back to the 11th century, is now shifting into the future with an electric-vehicle only zone in the city center. By 2035, the ban...
New way to prevent genetically engineered and unaltered organisms from producing offspring
A major obstacle to applying genetic engineering to benefit humans and the environment is the risk that organisms whose genes have been altered might produce offspring with their nat...
New technique scours the genome for genes that combat disease
MIT researchers have adapted the CRISPR genome-editing system to identify genes that protect cells from a protein associated with Parkinson’s disease. However, the MIT team adapted i...
New breast cancer drug defeats the Ras genes notorious for causing many types of cancer
This attachment permanently blocks the function of the receptors, causing the cell to target them for degradation. We thought, ‘if neratinib can take down c-MET even though it doesn’...
Milestone: 100 Million Certificates Issued
This number reflects at least a few things: First, it illustrates the strong demand for our services. I’m incredibly proud of the work our engineering teams have done to make this v...
Let’s Encrypt 2016 In Review
I’m incredibly proud of what our team and community accomplished during 2016. The ACME protocol for issuing and managing certificates is at the heart of how Let’s Encrypt works. We a...
How machine learning can predict and prevent disruptions in reactors
He recently gave a talk hosted by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) on using machine learning to develop a real-time warning system for impending disruptions in fusion reactors. Howe...
Designing drugs aimed at a different part of life’s code
Hargrove and her team at Duke are working to design new types of drugs that target RNA rather than proteins. RNA-targeted drug molecules have the potential help treat diseases like p...
Brain chemical abnormalities in earliest stage of psychosis identified
Published in Biological Psychiatry, the study led by Dr. Dost Öngür of Harvard Medical School provides the first ever measurement of glycine levels in patients with psychotic disorde...
UTA bioengineer to collaborate with UTSW to improve neonatal brain monitoring
A University of Texas at Arlington bioengineering professor and her team will integrate a portable brain imaging system with an advanced signal-processing technique for newborns that...
Sequencing test enables precise identification of drug-resistant TB: Researchers advance SMOR testing, with an eye on precision medicine for tuberculosis
Two studies led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) document how a new advanced genetic sequencing approach ...
RIT to develop hybrid biological cell separations technology for lab-on-chip devices
Blanca Lapizco-Encinas, a faculty-researcher in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering, is improving the process of separating biological cells and biomolecules using chromatograp...
Pest resistance to biotech crops surging
This will be critically important information as more crops are engineered to produce Bt toxins. As expected from evolutionary theory, factors favoring sustained efficacy of Bt crops...
Oxytocin and breastfeeding: Elucidation of a molecular mechanism
On the other hand, the oxytocin level in the blood of babies drinking mother’s milk has been found to be elevated, suggesting oxytocin could somehow be transported even in the presen...