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Nobel Prize-winning metal-organic frameworks are the jungle gyms of chemistry

University of California - San Diego

Metal-organic frameworks hold great promise: extracting water from air, degrading toxic chemicals and even capturing air pollution. They are so fantastic, their development won this year's Nobel Prize. UC San Diego Professor of Chemistry Seth Cohen answers everyone's burning question: what are they exactly?

From fireflies to medical treatments: CU Denver’s Chemistry Nanomedicine Lab turns bright ideas into life saving solutions

University of Colorado Denver

A small university lab Colorado is doing big work: developing a “Surgical GPS” to guide cancer removal, engineering a therapeutic contact lens to prevent blindness, and creating a rapid-diagnostic device to detect sepsis.  

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

Trying to move more? Expert explains the benefits of counting steps

You may have heard about the health benefits of tracking your steps. But what is the right number of steps? Are some types of stepping better for you than others? Mackenzie Long, a personal trainer in physical therapy and sports medicine at the Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse and Onalaska, Wisconsin, explains.

Modeling the marine carbon cycle

University of Oldenburg

Sinikka Lennartz, a junior professor of biogeochemical ocean modelling at the University of Oldenburg in northern Germany, has won several prestigious awards this year. She specialises in the marine carbon cycle. In recent years, she has made significant progress in understanding and quantifying two processes by which the ocean affects the climate system that have not been widely researched.

Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Funder: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur

Cal Poly kinesiology and public health professor advocates for cross-cultural learning

California Polytechnic State University

Cal Poly Kinesiology and Public Health Department Professor Joni Roberts shares her thoughts on differences between learning in California and Africa. Roberts is spending the year in Malawi, Africa on a Fulbright Program fellowship. In her Ed Source article titled "What California’s college students can learn from foreign countries’ educational cultures" she writes: "Structure is cultural. When we impose our rhythms abroad, we risk missing the deeper experience of connection and reciprocity that global learning can offer."

Dress to impress: Nubian royal outfits showcased in London

SWPS University

A live presentation of re-created costumes of Nubian kings, royal mothers, and bishop based on wall paintings from the cathedral of Faras will take place on December 9 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Meeting: Dress to impress. Reconstructions of Medieval Robes from Nubia

JMIR Publications’ News & Perspectives unveils future of patient care: Smart implants transforming surgery and beyond

JMIR Publications

JMIR Publications continues to provide forward-looking insights in its "News & Perspectives" section with a new article exploring the evolution and potential of smart implants in health care.

Journal: Journal of Medical Internet Research

Under the lens: Dr. Callum Cooper explores how bacteriophages could revolutionize medicine - and how we get to that point

Applied Microbiology International

In a compelling new video interview from Applied Microbiology International’s ‘Under the Lens’ series, Dr. Callum Cooper, a researcher in bacterial phage formulation and Deputy Editor of Letters in Applied Microbiology, an AMI publication, shared fascinating insights into one of medicine’s most promising frontiers: phage therapy.

The research project for the reassembly of fragmented frescoes using an “intelligent robot” comes to an end

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT

The research project RePAIR (Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Meet Cultural Heritage), funded by the European Union, is coming to an end and is presenting its main results: the creation of a robotic infrastructure – built by Italian Institute of Technology - guided by artificial intelligence and the use of algorithms to reassemble fragmented Pompeian frescoes like a “puzzle”. The entire prototype was validated through initial experimental tests conducted on-site at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, demonstrating that robotics and artificial intelligence may, in the future, facilitate the work of archaeologists.

Funder: Horizon 2020 Framework Programme

Big Earth Data Journal: Addressing incomplete reference data for leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Earth Observation applications

Big Earth Data Journal is calling for papers for a Special Issue on Addressing incomplete reference data for leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Earth Observation applications. This special issue focuses on advancing methodologies for Earth Observation application reference data challenges. It gathers pioneering research, theoretical insights and innovative case studies to boost reference data enhancement, aiming to improve the precision and trustworthiness of AI-driven insights and guide academics, industry professionals and policymakers.This special issue focuses on advancing methodologies for Earth Observation application reference data challenges. It gathers pioneering research, theoretical insights and innovative case studies to boost reference data enhancement, aiming to improve the precision and trustworthiness of AI-driven insights and guide academics, industry professionals and policymakers. Welcome to submit!

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