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San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) streams Helgi Tomassons Romeo & Juliet from May 6-26, 2021 in the multi-capture, cinematic production by Lincoln Center at the Movies: Great American Dance from 2015, captured on stage at San Franciscos War Memorial Opera House. A signature work of the Company, Tomassons Romeo & Juliet has been performed worldwide, and was the last work SF Ballet toured prior to the pandemic, in the fall of 2019 at The Royal Danish Opera House in Copenhagen, Denmark, when it was...

 E-Mail IMAGE: University at Buffalo tech can identify machines by their unique hot end, could aid intellectual property, security. view more  Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. - 3D printing is transforming everything from fashion and health care to transportation and toys. But this rapidly evolving technology, also known as additive manufacturing, can threaten national security and intellectual property rights. To reduce illicit use of 3D printers, Zhanpeng Jin, PhD, associ...

Advertisement Get a close-up view of a 17ft (5m) great white shark or see the steam wafting from a giant cauldron of noodles courtesy of these amazing photographs.  All winners and runners-up in the prestigious 2020 Photo Is Light World Photography Contest, the photos fit into categories including architecture, landscape, nature and people.   Francisco Negroni was named the competitions overall winner thanks to an electrifying photo showing a lightning-enveloped 2015 eruption of Calbuco vol...

The 13th Shanghai Biennale announces participants for main exhibition Feliciano Centurión, Untitled, 1994, oil on canvas, 164 x 217 cm. Private Collection. SHANGHAI .- The Power Station of Art announced the culmination of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, Bodies of Water. Its main exhibition PHASE 03: AN EXHIBITION opens on April 17, 2021, with 64 participating artists presenting projects, including 33 new commissions, presented at the PSA and other venues across Shanghai. To challenge the tradition...

Cornell University Cornell researchers have created micron-sized shape memory actuators that enable atomically thin two-dimensional materials to fold themselves into 3D configurations. Self-folding nanotech creates world’s smallest origami bird March 17, 2021 If you want to build a fully functional nanosized robot, you need to incorporate a host of capabilities, from complicated electronic circuits and photovoltaics to sensors and antennas. But just as importantly, if you want you...

Chaeyoung Cheon; Yuzhou Lin; David J. Harding, PhD; Wei Wang, PhD; Dylan S. Small, PhD Substantial racial disparities exist for gun homicide deaths in the US: the 2003 to 2017 age-adjusted rate was 7.4 times higher for Black individuals than for White individuals. That is that blacks were 7.4 times as likely to be murder victims as whites, from CDC data. (Note that CDC victimization data does a pretty good job of breaking out whites from Hispanics, unlike FBI offending data.) The ratio of black...

Rachel Howard March 4, 2021Updated: March 14, 2021, 12:57 pm Betty Fine (Sarah Van Patten) is a vaudeville chorus girl in “Wooden Dimes.” Photo: Lindsay Gauthier, San Francisco Ballet If a choreographer wants to make the most of this pandemic era, Sarah Van Patten is the woman to put on the screen. Van Patten, who joined the San Francisco Ballet in 2002, is the finest actress-dancer in the company, so it is good to have a beautifully directed record of her theatrical genius in ...

A woman holding her smartphone checking a contact tracing app. Credit:mphillips007/iStock.com COVIDGuardian, the first automated security and privacy assessment tool, tests contact tracing apps for potential threats such as malware, embedded trackers and private information leakage. Using the COVIDGuardian tool, cybersecurity experts assessed 40 Covid-19 contact tracing apps that have been employed worldwide for potential privacy and security threats. Their findings include that: 72.5 per cen...

Regardless of socioeconomic status, Black communities face higher gun homicides In a Wharton study, chair of the Statistics Department Dylan Small says reasons for the disparity include institutional racism, underinvestment in communities, and housing segregation. Memorial to victims of gun violence in Philadelphia. (Image: Michael Stokes) Majority Black neighborhoods have higher gun homicide rates than mostly white neighborhoods of the same socioec...

Date Time Share New evidence sheds light on best practices for treating patients with severe respiratory failure from COVID-19 Findings suggest ECMO life-support therapy can improve odds of survival for patients critically ill with COVID-19 BOSTON – COVID-19 has caused more than 2 million deaths worldwide since the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic in March 2020. Patients with severe COVID-19 frequently experience respiratory distress and require assistance breathing. For pati...