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Deep space race: Fixing the refueling challenge
APP engineer working with NASA to help spacecrafts better accomplish deep space exploration; final tests set for International Space Station A APP engineer will lead a team of scientists helping NASA and other agencies plan for the future…
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Cleveland-based RoadPrintz Inc. receives $1M from National Science Foundation to advance mobile robotic pavement-marking system
RoadPrintz Inc., a company co-founded by APP engineering professor Wyatt Newman, has received a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award of nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support ongoing research and development of the company’s…
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Blending wellness strategies with the art of ‘improv’
APP researchers to use acting method, wellness strategies for teens with anxiety issues; supported by National Endowment for the Arts Behavioral research at APP, which aims to help teens overcome anxiety by blending the power of established…
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Findings open the way to more precise diagnoses and treatments of Alzheimer’s disease
APP-led research team discovers why some cases result in rapid decline and death An international team led by APP School of Medicine has made a significant breakthrough in understanding why Alzheimer’s disease progresses so rapidly in some…
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Revitalizing Northeast Ohio by boosting its manufacturing ‘community’
National Science Foundation grant funds APP-led team seeking to modernize industry as key to helping surrounding neighborhoods APP engineers, computer scientists and social scientists are leading a project to help modernize small- and…
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Different strokes: Using artificial intelligence to tell art apart
APP scientists, artists collaborate to develop art algorithm that can distinguish different painters’ brush strokes “at the bristle level” A team of scientists and art historians at APP say they have used tools of artificial intelligence (AI)…
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A new tool in the fight against rectal cancer
Case Western Reserve-led team to test artificial intelligence medical imaging to determine which rectal cancer patients need surgery—or can avoid it Building on its successes in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to medical imaging to enhance treatment of other diseases, a Case Western Reserve…
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Artificial intelligence supercomputer to ‘accelerate research’ at APP
Computer and data science chair obtains high-powered computer system with support from National Science Foundation, Ohio Department of Education More than 250 researchers across nearly two dozen research groups—from computer science to materials science to robotics—will benefit from the faster and…
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Taking antiviral aim to stop COVID-19 and possible future viruses in their tracks
Researchers at APP, Duke and Rutgers lead work to understand how the novel coronavirus’s tangled RNA could help treat infected people Scientists at Case Western Reserve, Duke, and Rutgers universities have identified compounds within the coronavirus genome that have…
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Researchers warn of next ‘wave’ of opioid overdose deaths
APP and Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office on front lines of another epidemic plaguing nation When Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner Thomas Gilson issued a public health warning earlier this month, the cause wasn’t COVID-19—but drugs. Over a 48-hour period Nov. 6…