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Estimating Risk of Airborne COVID-19 with Mask Usage, Social Distancing

WASHINGTON, October 26, 2020 — The continued increase in COVID-19 infection around the world has led scientists from many different fields, including biomedicine, epidemiology, virology, fluid dynamics, […]

COVID-19 Cough Clouds in Closed Spaces

WASHINGTON, October 20, 2020 — As the coronavirus has affected more than 30 million people globally, researchers have increasingly focused on the extent to which airborne respiratory […]

Computational Study Reveals How Ebola Nucleocapsid Stabilizes

WASHINGTON, October 20, 2020 — The Ebola virus causes a serious infection with a mortality rate between 50% and 90%. Nucleoproteins in the virus assemble into a […]

Keeping COVID-19 Out of Classrooms: Open Windows, Use Glass Screens In Front of Desks

WASHINGTON, October 20, 2020 — As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread around the globe, studying aerosol and droplet transport within different environments can help establish effective, […]

Interactions Within Larger Social Groups Can Cause Tipping Points in Contagion Flow

WASHINGTON, October 20, 2020 — Contagion processes, such as opinion formation or disease spread, can reach a tipping point, where the contagion either rapidly spreads or dies […]

Assessing State of the Art in AI for Brain Disease Treatment

WASHINGTON, October 14, 2020 — Artificial intelligence is lauded for its ability to solve problems humans cannot, thanks to novel computing architectures that process large amounts of […]

Record High Values of Peak Power with Picosecond Generators

WASHINGTON, October 13, 2020 — Powerful picosecond generators are in demand in various fields of experimental electrophysics to produce ultrashort electron beams and X-ray pulses in vacuum […]

Layer of Strength, Layer of Functionality for Biomedical Fibers

WASHINGTON, October 13, 2020 — Wound dressing, tissue scaffolding, controlled and sustained drug delivery, and cardiac patching are all biomedical processes requiring a material that combines strength […]

Hydrogen Embrittlement Creates Complications for Clean Energy Storage, Transportation

WASHINGTON, October 6, 2020 — As the global energy market shifts from coal, petroleum fuel, and natural gas to more environmentally friendly primary energy sources, hydrogen is […]