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Earth Science

6-Dec-2021

Max Born Prize for Claudia Felser

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
Grant and Award Announcement

The Max Born Prize, jointly awarded by the British Institute of Physics (IOP) and the DPG for particularly valuable and timely scientific contributions to physics, will be awarded in 2022 to Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden.

6-Dec-2021

Bacterial microbiota in unfed ticks (Dermacentor nuttalli) from Xinjiang detected through 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing and culturomics

Compuscript Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bacterial Microbiota in Unfed Ticks (Dermacentor nuttalli) From Xinjiang Detected Through 16S rDNA Amplicon Sequencing and Culturomics https://doi.org/10.15212/ZOONOSES-2021-0007 Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Ruifu Yang and colleagues from Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China and The Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, China review bacterial microbiota in unfed ticks (Dermacentor nuttalli) from Xinjiang detected through 16S rDNA Amplicon sequencing and culturomics.

6-Dec-2021

Turbo boost for materials research: Researchers train AI to predict new compounds

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new algorithm has been designed to help discover previously unknown material compounds. It was developed by a team from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Lund University in Sweden. The researchers designed a form of artificial intelligence (AI) based on machine learning that can perform complex calculations within a very short space of time. This has enabled the team to identify several thousand potential new compounds using a computer. The study was published in the journal "Science Advances".

Journal: Science Advances

6-Dec-2021

New type of earthquake discovered

Ruhr-University Bochum
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A Canadian-German research team have documented a new type of earthquake in an injection environment in British Columbia, Canada. The seismic events are slower than conventional earthquakes. Their existence supports a scientific theory that until now had not been sufficiently substantiated by measurements.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

6-Dec-2021

Powerful new tool makes coral reef monitoring faster, easier, cheaper

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As coral reefs face increasing threats around the world, a team of researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, the University of Tokyo, and the Okinawa Prefecture Environment Science Center have developed a genetic analysis tool that can determine many different types of coral on a reef with just a sample of seawater.

Journal: Frontiers in Marine Science

6-Dec-2021

AI could help doctors make the best use of ICU beds during the COVID-19 pandemic

University of Waterloo
Reports and Proceedings

New technology could help doctors make the most of limited resources during the COVID-19 pandemic by identifying patients who require intensive care unit treatment.

Meeting: Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems 2021

6-Dec-2021

OIST seeks entrepreneurs from Okinawa, Japan, and the World

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University
Grant and Award Announcement

The OIST Innovation Square Startup Accelerator Program is now accepting applications for its 2022 intake, with the recruitment period open from Dec 6, 2021 to Feb 4, 2022. Successful applicants will be awarded up to 10 million yen and have the opportunity to incubate their startups at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Okinawa, Japan.