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New pterosaur species with tiny hooked teeth discovered

February 7, 2023 By sdcnews

By Newswise An unusual new species of pterosaur has been identified, which had over 400 teeth that looked like the prongs of a nit comb. The fossil was found in a German quarry and has been described by palaeontologists from England, Germany, and Mexico. Professor David Martill, the lead author of the research, from the […]

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Tiny swimming robots treat deadly pneumonia in mice

December 17, 2022 By sdcnews

By Newswise La Jolla, CA–Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny swimming robots, called microrobots, that can swim around in the lungs, deliver medication, and be used to clear up life-threatening cases of bacterial pneumonia. In mice, the microrobots safely eliminated pneumonia-causing bacteria in the lungs and resulted in 100% survival. […]

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Dept. of Energy announces $6.4 million for artificial intelligence research

October 7, 2022 By sdcnews

By Newswise Washington, D.C.–The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $6.4 million in funding for three initial Department of Energy national lab-led team projects in artificial intelligence research for high energy physics. These awards support the DOE Office of Science (SC) initiative in artificial intelligence research to use AI techniques to deliver scientific discoveries that would not otherwise be possible and to broaden […]

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Cleaning up online bots’ act – and speech

April 23, 2022 By sdcnews

By Newswise  Researchers develop a method to keep bots from using toxic language.  Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed algorithms to rid speech generated by online bots of offensive language, on social media and elsewhere.  Chatbots using toxic language is an ongoing issue. But perhaps the most famous example is Tay, […]

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When bees get a taste for dead things

November 28, 2021 By sdcnews

By Newswise A little-known species of tropical bee has evolved an extra tooth for biting flesh and a gut that more closely resembles that of vultures rather than other bees.  Typically, bees don’t eat meat. However, a species of stingless bee in the tropics has evolved the ability to do so, presumably due to intense […]

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Biodiversity ‘hotspots’ imperiled along California’s streams

June 15, 2021 By sdcnews

(Newswise)–A study of woodland ecosystems that provide habitat for rare and endangered species along streams and rivers throughout California reveals that some of these ecologically important areas are inadvertently benefitting from water that humans are diverting for their own needs. Though it seems a short-term boon to these ecosystems, the artificial supply creates an unintended […]

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Rare 4000-year comets can cause meteor showers on Earth

May 23, 2021 By sdcnews

(Newswise)–Comets that circle the Sun in very elongated orbits spread their debris so thin along their orbit or eject it out of the solar system altogether that their meteor showers are hard to detect.  From a new meteor shower survey published in the journal Icarus, researchers now report that they can detect showers from the […]

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First-of-its-kind flower smells like dead insects to imprison ‘coffin flies’

May 23, 2021 By sdcnews

(Newswise)–The plant Aristolochia microstoma uses a unique trick: its flowers emit a fetid-musty scent that seems to mimic the smell of decomposing insects. Flies from the genus Megaselia (family Phoridae) likely get attracted to this smell while searching for insect corpses to mate over and lay their eggs in. When they enter a flower, they are imprisoned and first […]

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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter succeeds in the historic first flight

April 20, 2021 By sdcnews

Pasadena, CA–NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet.  The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California Monday confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter through NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at 3:46 a.m. “Ingenuity is the latest […]

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Argonne scientists track community spread of COVID-19 in wastewater

February 27, 2021 By sdcnews

(Newswise)–Wastewater provides a clue to virus transmission. In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, finding ways to improve testing has been key to addressing the spread of disease. While much effort has focused on testing individual people, scientists have begun to explore large-scale sampling of wastewater to understand patterns of viral transmission over larger areas. Researchers from the U.S. […]

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