A new study by University researchers aimed to measure the amount of pain patients experience through brain activity, which could improve pain medications and treatments. Led by Carl Saab, associate professor of research in the departments of neuroscience and neurosurgery, the study sought to identify ...
A new $1 million grant was added to a $6.8 million study from 2015 attempting to determine intentionality of opioid overdoses in people recently released from prison. Former prisoners are at high risk of mental illness and drug relapse, making them highly susceptible to suicide, said Jennifer Johnson, ...
A new study by University professors shows older women are more likely to give birth to more than one baby at a time due to the aging reproductive system. The researchers compared reproductively active white and black women ages 15 to 19 and reproductively active white and black women ages 35 to 39 ...
Polyploidal cancer cells, also known as giant cancer cells, have been brought into the spotlight as new research suggests their previously unknown involvement in cancer development and remission. Researchers found that normal cancer treatments led to an increase in these giant cancer cells, and this ...
Sumatran rhinoceroses once inhabited a vast expanse of land in mainland East Asia, according to a new study by University professors. Today, they are located primarily in Sumatra, Indonesia. Due to hunting, expansion of the human population and increased agriculture, the area occupied by these rhinos ...
With the buzzword 鈥渄ata-driven鈥� gaining traction as a hot topic within many disciplines today, researchers and students flocked to the Serre Lab鈥檚 workshop on deep learning and the field鈥檚 myriad applications last Saturday. Deep learning is a set of algorithms that analyzes a large amount of ...
In an attempt to understand the effects that drugs like Adderall have on typical brains, scientists have found a relationship between activity of the neurotransmitter glutamate and mood for the first time, according to a study conducted by University researchers. 鈥淐onsidering the rising prevalence ...
According to a recent study by University researchers, a new material called Cesium Titanium (IV) Bromide can replace lead in a specific type of solar panel. The study鈥檚 goal is not necessarily to replace commonly used silicon solar cells, but to create environmentally stable and conscious solar cells ...
Over 20 years ago, Laurie Kardos 鈥�98 and Jesse Marmon 鈥�97 founded The Artemis Project while they were undergraduates in the computer science department. To this day, the project continues to provide free educational programming in STEM to rising ninth grade students of underrepresented genders. ...
Once a military and scientific research base in Greenland during the 1960s, Camp Century is now abandoned with all of its wastes 鈥� including chemical, radiological and physical 鈥� left frozen, presumably for eternity. But with temperatures rising in northern environments, there is concern of remobilization ...
