“Dr. CaBot” goes head-to-head with a human expert to work through a challenging medical case

Researchers develop technology that identifies highly potent and dangerous psychoactive substances. The device can be used in emergency medical facilities and to help inform users and reduce the harm associated with consumption.

Once cyber attackers gain access to a facility’s industrial control systems, the priority shifts from threat prevention to ensuring that critical operations can continue safely and without severe consequences. Led by Dr. Faisal Khan, department head of the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) at Texas A&M University, researchers have published a paper addressing the challenge of protecting processing facilities from cyber threats through a newly established framework, which highlights current problems and outlines proposed solutions.

Water quality could impact the kind of microbial populations in poultry drinking water lines and lead to the buildup of a biofilm that can harbor pathogenic bacteria like Salmonella, according to a recently published study by researchers with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station and the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station.

There may be a way to protect brain energy to preserve cognition — and the secret could lie on your plate. Think fish and seafood, meat, non-starchy vegetables, berries, nuts, seeds, eggs and even high-fat dairy products.

University of Missouri researchers are now testing just how powerful these foods can be. They’ve found that a high fat, low carb diet — known as the ketogenic diet — may not only preserve brain health but also stop or slow the signs of cognitive decline for those at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

The human brain is able to adapt to different situations, ensuring flexible and effective behavior. The biological mechanisms underlying this ability are the main research focus of neurobiologist Angelo Forli, who received the prestigious Career Development Grant from the Giovanni Armenise Harvard Foundation, worth 1 million dollars for a five-year project. Thanks to this funding, the researcher has left the United States to join the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia), where he will establish his new lab, ‘Neural Networks for Natural Intelligence.