Jessica Nyugen

New Snake Species in Europe Named After a Long-Forgotten Iron Age Kingdom

05.28.2019 12:59 PM

The description of a new rat snake species from eastern Turkey, Elaphe urartica, has been published in the journal PeerJ

New Compound Antibiotic-resistant Superbugs Killer Discovered

05.28.2019 10:39 AM

A new compound which visualizes and kills antibiotic-resistant superbugs has been discovered by scientists at the University of Sheffield and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL).

Artificial intelligence enables recognizing and assessing a violinist's bow movements

04.02.2019 21:35 PM

A system developed by David Dalmazzo and Rafael Ramírez, members of the Music Technology Group, allows violin students to benefit from real-time accurate information about their movements when playing the instrument

Forecasting mosquitoes' global spread

03.05.2019 09:42 AM

An international team gauges the coming threat of mosquito-borne diseases Outbreaks of mosquito-borne illnesses like yellow fever, dengue, Zika and chikungunya are rising around the world.

More accurate leukemia diagnosis expected as researchers refine leukemia classification

01.14.2019 11:35 AM

Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital means more than 90 percent of the most common cases of childhood cancer can now be classified by subtype, an advance likely to fuel precision medicine

Viennese scientists develop promising new type of polymers

01.14.2019 11:25 AM

S-PPV polymers are suitable for use in a wide range of applications, from solar cells through to medicine but, until recently, they were almost impossible to produce. Now, a new synthetic method has been patented.