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Researchers hope industry and governments worldwide will use the SSSAFE model to help early warning systems mitigate landslide risks

 E-Mail Cells are the building blocks of life, present in every living organism. But how similar do you think your cells are to a mouse? A fish? A worm? Comparing cell types in different species across the tree of life can help biologists understand how cell types arose and how they have adapted to the functional needs of different life forms. This has been of increasing interest to evolutionary biologists in recent years because new technology now allows sequencing and identifying all cells t...

Research Study Key Takeaways: Ridesharing can reduce a passengers risk of being a target of sexual assault by providing a more reliable and timely transportation option for traveling to a safer place. The entry of Uber into a city contributes to a 6.3% reduction in rape incidents. A 1% increase in Uber pickups in a neighborhood translates to a more than 3% decrease in the likelihood of sexual assaults. CATONSVILLE, MD, May 24, 2021 - Contrary to portraits painted in popular media, new res...

The ways in which we approach games reveal much about the inner working of our mind and serve a testbed for researching artificial intelligence and computing algorithms. In a recent study, scientists at JAIST applied novel search indicators in search tree algorithms and used them for solving turn-based games such as Checkers and Connect 4, while also exploring the relationship with subjective playing experiences. Their results help bridge the notions of computing and game playing.

 E-Mail A new study provides public health planning authorities with a method of calculating the number of COVID-19 isolation beds they would need for people experiencing homelessness based on level of infection in the city. The research holds promise for controlling spread of the virus - or future infectious diseases - in a population that is highly vulnerable and less likely than many others to access health care services. The report, developed to support public health decision-making in Au...

Credit: SMART FM E-scooters as a new micro-mobility service: SMART researchers explore the potential of e-scooter sharing as a replacement for short-distance transit in Singapore SMART researchers found that e-scooters are not only a last-mile solution to complement transit services, but also provide a mobility service for short-distance transit trips - Through a stated preference survey and mixed logit models, SMART researchers found that fare, transit transfer, and transit walking distance ar...

 E-Mail The Research Training Group (RTG) 2670 "Beyond Amphiphilicity: Self-organisation of soft matter via multiple noncovalent interactions" has begun its work at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). Amphiphilicity, a fundamental ordering principle for molecules, will be the starting point of the future research projects. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) will provide a first round of funding for the project of around 4.5 million euros until 20...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Computational modeling shows that mutations on SARS-CoV-2s spike protein that enhance the virus ability to bind to the ACE2 receptor occur in two clusters or mutation "hotspots. " view more  Credit: Image courtesy of Hin Hark Gan and Kristin Gunsalus, NYUs Department of Biology SARS-CoV-2 has evolved to acquire mutations on the spike protein--the part of the virus that protrudes from its surface and latches onto cells to infect them--that enhance the coronavirus abilit...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Visualization of the percentage of a buildings repair cost to its replacement value after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake in San Francisco. view more  Credit: Chaofeng Wang, SimCenter, UC Berkeley Artificial intelligence is providing new opportunities in a range of fields, from business to industrial design to entertainment. But how about civil engineering and city planning? How might machine- and deep-learning help us create safer, more sustainable, and resilient built envi...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Topology-based machine learning classifies how human cells organize into spatial patterns based on the presence of persistent topological loops around empty regions, which can be used to infer cellular behaviors... view more  Credit: Wong lab/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- The field of mathematical topology is often described in terms of donuts and pretzels. To most of us, the two differ in the way they taste or in their compatibility with morni...