BEIJING, Feb 10– Researchers in China have developed improved at-home test strips that can quickly and accurately detect feline and canine parvoviruses, potentially helping pet owners identify life-threatening infections earlier, according to a study published…
Harvey runoff menaces Texas’ coral reefs
Saline levels dropped 10 percent in one day over parts of Flower Garden Banks [caption id="attachment_13358" align="alignnone" width="616"] CAPTION: Rice University marine biologist Adrienne Correa taking samples at a Flower Garden Banks reef in 2016.…
Automatic code reuse
System makes modifications necessary to transplant code from one program into another. [caption id="attachment_13354" align="alignnone" width="639"] “CodeCarbonCopy enables one of the holy grails of software engineering: automatic code reuse,” says Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos, a research scientist…
Sentinel-5P liftoff
[caption id="attachment_13351" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA[/caption] The atmosphere-monitoring satellite for Europe’s Copernicus programme, Sentinel-5P, lifted off on a Rockot from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST) on 13 October 2017.
Autism prevalence and socioeconomic status: What’s the connection?
[caption id="attachment_13348" align="alignright" width="214"] Maureen Durkin[/caption] Children living in neighborhoods where incomes are low and fewer adults have bachelor’s degrees are less likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder compared to kids from more…





