IMAGE: deepai COLOGNE, Dec 31 – Scientists in Germany have identified a biological mechanism that helps explain why small cell lung cancer (SCLC), one of the most aggressive forms of lung cancer, relapses quickly despite…
Rice University’s Richards-Kortum, Vardi elected to National Academy…
Bioengineer, computer scientist join elite list of dual-academy members [caption id="attachment_4184" align="alignright" width="224"] Rebecca Richards-Kortum[/caption] HOUSTON – Rice University bioengineer Rebecca Richards-Kortum and computer scientist Moshe Vardi have joined the elite group of scientists elected to both…
European space agencies inaugurate altered-gravity aircraft
[caption id="attachment_4178" align="alignright" width="625"] Parabolic flight aircraft A310[/caption] ESA, France’s space agency CNES and the German aerospace centre DLR inaugurated the Airbus A310 ZERO-G refitted for altered gravity by running 12 scientific experiments this week.…
Object recognition for free
System designed to label visual scenes according to type turns out to detect particular objects, too. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Object recognition — determining what objects are where in a digital image — is a central research…
Researchers build new fermion microscope
Instrument freezes and images 1,000 individual fermionic atoms at once. [caption id="attachment_4167" align="alignright" width="639"] Graduate student Lawrence Cheuk adjusts the optics setup for laser cooling of sodium atoms.Photo: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Fermions are the…