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Jamaica's Dr Oliver McRae, a Post-Doctoral Associate at Boston University. Jamaica's Dr Oliver McRae, a Post-Doctoral Associate at Boston University (BU) and Associate Professor James C Bird have published a study that adds to the knowledge of how disease is spread and may have a bearing on the transmission of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Already published in the highly regarded "Physical Review Fluids Journal" of the American Physical Society (APS), which specialises in the publication of "innovative research", McRae's paper is scheduled to appear in APS' Special Collection of COVID Relevant ...

Image Credit: Victoria Shapiro/Shutterstock.com Polished glass has always been the cornerstone of modern optics and imaging systems. Shaped precisely, it helps us focus light and produce sharp images. However, changing its focus requires physically tilting, sliding, or shifting the lens, often mechanically, which adds bulk to microscopes and telescopes. It is also hard to miniaturize the classical lenses and mirrors currently used. Metalens technology could solve this problem by exploiting light and matter interactions at the nanometer scale to achieve unparalleled control of light's behavio...

Written by AZoCleantechMar 3 2021 Researchers used NASA’s ice-measuring laser satellite to determine that atmospheric river storms are the main driver of elevated snowfall levels in West Antarctica during the austral winter in 2019. Thwaites Glacier in 2019. Image Credit: Kiya Riverman. The results of the study, which was published recently in the Geophysical Research Letters journal, achieved by researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and their collaborators will help enhance the comprehensive knowledge of the processes forcing change...

Coronaviruses exploit our cells so they can make copies of themselves inside us. After they enter our cells, they use our cell machinery to make unique tools of their own that help them generate these copies.

Adequate spacing between births can reduce stunting in children Adequate spacing between births can help to alleviate the likelihood of stunting in children, according to a new study from the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI). In an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, TCI postdoctoral associate Sunaina Dhingra and Director Prabhu Pingali find that differences in height between firstborn and later-born children may be due to inadequate time between births. When children are born at least three years...