Biomedical and Health Sciences
Asymptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (aICH) patients present with either a decrease or no change in NIHSS scores, which may falsely indicate clinical improvement in the days leading up to th…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Biologists often take sequential 2D images at different heights to study biological structures. Last year, one of us wrote software that creates a 3D rendering from these images. This year,…
Plant Sciences
Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia japonica) is a highly dominant alien weed species that is increasingly abundant across the Americas and Europe, possessing several potentially allelopathic plant…
Biochemistry
Nitric oxide sensing proteins (NosPs) have been studied as important signaling molecules in various organisms. Particularly in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, NosP plays a role in heme binding and c…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
No-resource languages—those with minimal or no digital representation—pose unique challenges for machine translation (MT). Unlike low resource languages, which rely on limited but existent c…
Microbiology
Francisella tularensis, a gram-negative bacterium, is the causative agent of tularemia, a severe zoonotic disease. The CDC classifies F. tularensis as a tier one biothreat agent, as it is hi…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reefs are the world's most vital marine ecosystems, producing 50% of the world's oxygen and sustaining the livelihoods of 1 billion people globally. However, coral bleaching, a phenome…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Soft robotics, robots made of flexible materials, offer advantages in adaptability, and safer interactions. This study examines a pneumatically actuated soft gripper, investigating the effec…
Physics and Astronomy
The formation of planetary orbits and star systems remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. Exocomets, with their unique geological and molecular compositions, may hold the key to…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Endometriosis is associated with infertility in 30% to 50% of the millions affected worldwide. Decidualization, a key endometrial differentiation process that facilitates embryo implantation…
Materials Science
Cancer’s therapeutic landscape is significantly limited; chemotherapeutics indiscriminately target rapidly dividing cells, adversely affecting healthy tissues. While targeted nanomedicines a…
Chemistry
The impacts of phosphate pollution on eutrophic ecosystems are debilitating, often causing excessive algae growth which leads to the formation of dead zones. To combat the harmful impacts of…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Entrepreneurial gender disparities have immense economic and social costs: the world loses $23 million in potential gross domestic product every minute, and promoting women entrepreneurs is…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many consumer sunscreens contain potentially harmful chemicals to freshwater environments such as endocrine disruptors and carcinogens. Exposure to UV-filters has, over time, been shown to a…
Plant Sciences
With missions to the Moon planned for the near future, a significant amount of lunar research is being conducted, including finding a reliable food source (plants) to allow for permanent lun…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) is a rare bone disorder caused by a mutation in the ACVR1 receptor, whose downstream signaling leads to excessive bone growth. The defining charac…
Biomedical Engineering
Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects 1.4 million newborns annually, with over 20% requiring a heart valve prosthetic. A major challenge in pediatric cardiac care is the absence of a long-l…
Plant Sciences
Hydroponic systems are an efficient method of plant cultivation that is gaining popularity due to its high yields and resource efficiency. However, current hydroponic substrates like mineral…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The incel (involuntary celibate) community is a radicalized online subculture. In this study, I focus on the popular social media platform Reddit and analyze the activity patterns and commen…
Biomedical Engineering
Gallium Cancer Therapy (GCT) has emerged as a promising non-invasive treatment modality due to its ability to induce apoptosis and disrupt cellular iron metabolism, inhibiting rapid prolifer…
Biochemistry
Oligonucleotides, especially siRNAs, have been identified as a point of interest due to their capability for precision targeting of "undruggable" targets. siRNAs (Small Interfering RNA) bind…
Chemistry
As the climate crisis demands cleaner and more efficient energy systems, hierarchically self-assembled nanostructures are emerging as promising tools for sustainable technologies. Hierarchic…
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Morphing wing technology promises improved aircraft efficiency by optimizing aerodynamics across flight regimes. However, widespread adoption faces a fundamental challenge: excessive stress…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
While climate change's environmental impacts are well recognized, its humanitarian impacts depend on complex interactions between climate and population factors. This study simulated land-us…
Microbiology
Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) is a gammaherpesvirus infecting 90% of adults, and is associated with various diseases, including infectious mononucleosis, Hodgkin lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma, and N…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the world’s leading cause of dementia in older populations, impacting more than 6 million individuals in the U.S. alone. Although FDA approved treatment has been…
Physics and Astronomy
NASA's Kepler Mission has discovered over 5,800 exoplanets in our galaxy, revealing a puzzling phenomenon known as the "radius cliff." The "radius cliff" is a sharp decline in the number of…
Translational Medical Science
The use of therapeutic siRNA to silence genes in a sequence-specific manner has been limited by its need for delivery to target cells. However, while antibody-mediated siRNA delivery shows p…
Physics and Astronomy
The discovery of gravitational waves (GW) has brought about the development of new detectors, including the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which will detect white dwarf (WD) bina…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Over the past 5 years, the United States recorded over 25,000 fatal work injuries (AFL-CIO, 2023). Industries like scientific laboratories, recycling and manufacturing facilities are especia…