(Rochester Institute of Technology) Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are exploring ways to use drones and artificial intelligence to help farmers and other users assess how well fields of crops are growing. The National Science Foundation awarded Guoyu Lu, an assistant professor in RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, more than $583,000 to spearhead the project.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/riot-rru_1042921.php

(Association for Computing Machinery) The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) will hold its annual flagship conference, the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), virtually from May 8-13. The conference, which has run yearly since 1982, is resuming after a one-year hiatus due to the Covid pandemic. CHI 2021 will be the biggest ever, with more than 4,500 participants from 75 countries registered.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/afcm-phi042921.php

Researchers have shown wearable devices that continuously monitor blood sugar provide new insights into the progression of Type 2 diabetes among at-risk Hispanic/Latino adults.

Original source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210429123404.htm

(The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) When heavy ions, accelerated to the speed of light, collide with each other in the depths of European or American accelerators, quark-gluon plasma is formed for fractions of a second, or even its “cocktail” seasoned with other particles. According to scientists from the IFJ PAN, experimental data show that there are underestimated actors on the scene: photons. Their collisions lead to the emission of seemingly excess particles, the presence of which could not be explained.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/thni-cwc042921.php

(Case Western Reserve University) Using ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to map the brains of people with Down syndrome (DS), researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals and other institutions detected subtle differences in the structure and function of the hippocampus–a region of the brain tied to memory and learning.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/cwru-ufm042921.php

(American Chemical Society) To be more energy efficient, many people have replaced their incandescent lights with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs. However, those currently on the market emit a lot of blue light, which has been linked to eye troubles and sleep disturbances. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have developed a prototype LED that reduces — instead of masks — the blue component, while also making colors appear just as they do in natural sunlight.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/acs-rbl042821.php

(DOE/Sandia National Laboratories) Licensing expert Bob Westervelt, who has worked to transfer Sandia National Laboratories technologies in the medical, solar and hydrogen production fields, received the 2021 Outstanding Technology Transfer Professional Award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/dnl-ll042821.php

(University of Massachusetts Lowell) A product that detects and helps seal leaks in ill-fitting face masks to protect against COVID-19 and other environmental hazards recently won top honors in UMass Lowell’s annual student entrepreneurship pitch competition.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/uoml-sh042821.php

(National Research Council of Science & Technology) The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has announced the development of an effective structural monitoring technique to monitor massive infrastructures, such as long-span bridge. The method provides accurate and precise responses over whole structural system densely by fusing advantages of multi-fidelity data.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/nrco-ksf042721.php

(Engineering Conferences International) The in-person Integrated Continuous Biomanufacturing Conference has been rescheduled to April 25-29, 2022 in Sitges, Spain. To highlight the key role that the ICB plays, we are planning a webinar to keep the community engaged.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/eci-icb042821.php