Off-the-shelf smart fabric helps athletic coaching and physical therapy: Merging low cost and high performance in body motion sensing
The proposed fabric-sensing system is a flexible, motion-capture textile that monitors joint rotation..
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Woolly mammoths and Neanderthals may have shared genetic traits: Findings point to molecular resemblance in climate adaptation traits of the two species
The research attributes the human-elephant relationship during the Pleistocene epoch to their mutual ecology and shared living environments, in addition to other possible interactions between the two species.
The study was led by Prof. Ran Barkai and Meidad Kislev of TAU's Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures and
Five-minute sample processing enhances DNA imaging and analysis
Described in ACS Nano, JILA's gentle, yet effective process involves binding DNA to mica, a flat silicate mineral.
Researchers remove harmful hormones from Las Vegas wastewater using green algae
EDCs are natural hormones and can also be found in many plastics and pharmaceuticals..
Cold plasma can kill 99.9% of airborne viruses
They hope to one day harness this capability to replace a century-old device: the surgical mask..
Slug glue reveals clues for making better medical adhesives: Findings could lead to suture alternatives that are flexible and strong
Typical sutures like staples and stitches often lead to scarring and create holes in the skin that could increase the chance of infection after surgeryz
Rebecca Falconer
Rebecca Falconer, who conducted one of the studies. "Understanding the roles of adhesive proteins in the slug glue would aid in the creation
Laying the ground for robotic strategies in environmental protection
With this motivation, a team of roboticists at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering has developed a robot that can autonomously drive interlocking steel sheet piles into soil.
The structures that it builds could function as retaining walls or check dams for erosion control.
The study will be presented
Robots created with 3D printers could be caring for those in golden years: New design method to create soft robots
This trend comes with an increasing demand for caregivers capable of providing 24-hour care, not only at hospitals or nursing homes, but also at private homes and apartments.
New DNA 'shredder' technique goes beyond CRISPR's scissors
But sometimes, it takes more than scissors to do the job.
Just an hour of weekly walking staves off disability: All brisk walking, even short walks, help prevent disability in older adults with osteoarthritis
"This is less than 10 minutes a day for people to maintain their independence.
Rainfall changes for key crops predicted even with reduced greenhouse gas emissions
The study uses four emissions scenarios from low to high to predict time of emergence (TOE) of permanent precipitation changes, meaning the year by which precipitation changes remain permanently outside their historical variation in a specific location.
The research shows that quick action on emissions -- in line with 2015's
Five new frog species from Madagascar
Madagascar, an island a little larger than mainland France, has more than 350 frog species.This number of recognized species is constantly rising, and many of the newly named species are very small.
Scientists discover first organism with chlorophyll genes that doesn't photosynthesize
The peculiar organism is dubbed 'corallicolid' because it is found in 70 per cent of corals around the world and may provide clues as to how to protect coral reefs in the future.
Wide variations in how well or poorly people age: United States ranks 54th between Iran (53rd) and Antigua and Barbuda (55th)
A 30-year gap separates countries with the highest and lowest ages at which people experience the health problems of a 65-year-old, according to a new scientific study.
VLA makes first direct image of key feature of powerful radio galaxies: Structure suggested by theorists decades ago
The scientists studied Cygnus A, a galaxy some 760 million light-years from Earth..