Engineering Heat Loss Control Method in Fusion Reactors (Engineering) 22 Feb 2021 The core of a fusion reactor is incredibly hot. Hydrogen that inevitably escapes from it must be cooled on its way to the wall, as otherwise, the reactor wall would…
Medicine Absence of Natural Killer Cell Receptor Associated With Severe COVID-19 (Medicine) 22 Feb 2021 The course and severity of COVID-19 in individual patients is largely influenced by the interaction between the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the human immune system. Normally, the antiviral immune response of…
Archaeology New Dating Techniques Reveal Australia’s Oldest Known Rock Painting, and It’s a Kangaroo (Archeology) 22 Feb 202122 Feb 2021 Two-meter kangaroo painting thought to be 17,300 years old A two-metre-long painting of a kangaroo in Western Australia's Kimberley region has been identified as Australia's oldest intact rock painting. Using…
Medicine Oncotarget: MEK is a Promising Target in the Basal Subtype of Bladder Cancer (Medicine) 22 Feb 2021 Oncotarget recently published in "MEK is a promising target in the basal subtype of bladder cancer" by Merrill, et al. which reported that while many resources exist for the drug screening…
PHYSICS New “Metalens” Shifts Focus Without Tilting or Moving (Physics) 22 Feb 2021 The design may enable miniature zoom lenses for drones, cellphones, or night-vision goggles. Polished glass has been at the center of imaging systems for centuries. Their precise curvature enables lenses…
Psychology NYU Abu Dhabi Researcher Sheds New Light on the Psychology of Radicalization 22 Feb 2021 The paper explores how to reverse this potentially violent form of addiction by restoring an individual's psychological needs and how challenging their ideology is counterproductive Learning more about what motivates…
Computer Science… Researchers Develop Speedier Network Analysis For a Range of Computer Hardware (Engineering / Computer Science) 22 Feb 2021 The advance could boost recommendation algorithms and internet search. Graphs — data structures that show the relationship among objects — are highly versatile. It’s easy to imagine a graph depicting…