COVID-19 transmission rare in schools with masking, distancing, contact tracing, study finds

Wearing masks, social distancing and frequent hand-washing have kept in-school COVID-19 transmission low, according to results…

Stroke risk higher than expected among COVID-19 patients

Analysis of data from the American Heart Association’s COVID-19 CVD Registry of more than 20,000 U.S.…

How do humpback whales rest?

An international research collaboration has used an omnidirectional camera attached to humpback whale to reveal how…

Conformational equilibria in GPCRs provides critical clues about activation mechanisms

A multinational research team led by Dr. Adnan Sljoka (RIKEN), Prof. R. Scott Prosser (Univ. of…

Substantially higher burden of COVID-19 compared to flu, new research shows

A new study compares the impact of COVID-19 on patients and hospital resources versus the impact…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/19/2021

63S Soyuz Port Relocation: Today, the 63S crew boarded the 63S Soyuz and undocked from the…

Is grant review feedback perceived as fair or useful?

An important function of the grant peer review process is to provide constructive feedback to applicants…

Lab one step closer to understanding how life started on Earth

How did life begin on Earth and could it exist elsewhere? Researchers at Simon Fraser University…

Robust and ultralow-energy-threshold ignition of lean fuels by an ultrashort-pulsed laser

Laser ignition (LI) is a promising electrode-less alternative to electronic spark ignition of lean fuel/air mixtures,…

High-efficiency pulse compression established on solitons in nonlinear Kerr resonators

Generating intense ultrashort pulses with high spatial quality has opened up possibilities for ultrafast and strong-field…