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May 31, 2024 — Mars has a distinct structure in its mantle and crust with discernible reservoirs, and this is known thanks to meteorites that scientists have analyzed. These results are important for understanding not only how Mars formed and evolved, but also for ...
May 29, 2024 — Newly generated, complete genomes for the sex chromosomes of six primate species may inform conservation of these endangered species and shed light on sex-related genetic diseases in both humans and ...
May 29, 2024 — Orchid plants nurture their seedlings via an underground fungal network, new research has ...
May 29, 2024 — Researchers have shown that members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb -- a controllable, prosthetic extra thumb -- to pick up and manipulate objects. The team tested the robotic device on a diverse ...
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May 30, 2024 — New research sheds light on how individual neurons in the hippocampus of rats stabilize and tune spatial representations during periods of rest following the animals' first time running a maze, ...
May 30, 2024 — A technical achievement marks a significant advance in the burgeoning field of observing individual molecules without the aid of fluorescent labels. While these labels are useful in many ...
May 31, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a highly effective, nontoxic, and less expensive way to lure hungry termites to their ...
May 30, 2024 — A whaler's forgotten aerial photos from 1937 have given researchers the most detailed picture of the ice evolution in East Antarctica to date. The ...
May 30, 2024 — Combining a new imaging instrument with the powerful adaptive optics capabilities of the Large Binocular Telescope, astronomers have captured a ...
May 30, 2024 — When we're told 'This coffee is hot' upon being served a familiar caffeinated beverage at our local diner or cafe, the message is clear. But what ...
May 30, 2024 — Reaserchers have created a prototype for what they call 'living bioelectronics': a combination of living cells, gel, and electronics that can integrate with living tissue. Tests in mice found that ...
May 30, 2024 — This fossil looks like a lumpy, rounded rock with a couple of exposed teeth that are a little worse for wear, having been submerged and tumbled along the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for thousands of ...
May 30, 2024 — New research demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters, star clusters that could contain tens ...
May 30, 2024 — Humans may be accelerating the rate at which organic matter decomposes in rivers and streams on a global scale, according to a new study. That could pose a threat to biodiversity in waterways around ...
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May 31, 2024 — Researchers have isolated human monoclonal antibodies against influenza B, a significant public health threat that disproportionately affects children, the elderly and other immunocompromised ...
May 31, 2024 — A novel, human-inspired approach to training artificial intelligence (AI) systems to identify objects and navigate their surroundings could set the stage for the development of more advanced AI ...
May 30, 2024 — A new study has compared the amount of music and speech that children hear in infancy. Results showed that infants hear more spoken language than music, with the gap widening as the babies get ...
May 30, 2024 — Trout living in rivers polluted by metal from old mines across the British Isles are genetically 'isolated' from other trout, new research ...
May 30, 2024 — Research has led to a new tool for forecasting coral disease that could help conservationists step in at the right times with key interventions. Ecological forecasts are critical tools for conserving ...
May 30, 2024 — A team has found that high resolution mass spectrometry could be a valuable tool for identifying and assessing air-borne contaminants produced by natural and human-made ...
May 30, 2024 — During pregnancy, the effects of therapeutical doses of amphetamine have been investigated on birth outcomes in humans. However, a thorough investigation of the mechanisms underlying the long-term ...
May 30, 2024 — In a finding that vastly expands the understanding of tumor evolution, researchers discover genetic biomarkers that can predict the breast cancer subtype a patient is likely to ...
May 30, 2024 — A great armada entered the North Atlantic, launched from the cold shores of North America. But rather than ships off to war, this force was a fleet of icebergs. And the havoc it wrought was to the ...
May 30, 2024 — Scientists studying ultra-processed foods have created a new tool for assessing the rewarding and reinforcing properties of foods that make up 58 percent of calories consumed in the United States. ...
May 30, 2024 — The formation of aggregates due to protein misfolding and resulting protein instability is associated with several diseases. Previous studies have shown the potential of sulfobetaine polymer, a ...
May 30, 2024 — Engineers have helped design a new method to make hydrogen gas from water using only solar power and agricultural waste such as manure or husks. The method reduces the energy needed to extract ...
May 30, 2024 — Findings showed that how tight a parental T cell binds to a cancer-related protein determines whether its offspring will become functional anti-cancer effector cells or dysfunctional ...
May 30, 2024 — Over the last two years, scientists have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to explore what astronomers refer to as Cosmic Dawn -- the period in the first few hundred million years after the ...
May 30, 2024 — Researchers combined computer simulations and transmission electron microscopy experiments to better understand the ordering mobility and formation of microstructure domains in Fe3Al alloy. They were ...
May 30, 2024 — The eyes of raptors such as eagles can accurately perceive prey from kilometers away. Is it possible to model the camera technology after the bird's eyes? Researchers developed a new type of ...
May 30, 2024 — Team utilizes advanced statistical techniques to project the future groundwater depletion ...
May 30, 2024 — During an earthquake, soil can weaken through subsidence and liquefaction. These processes can cause buildings to collapse as the soil becomes unable to support their weight. Researchers have now ...
May 30, 2024 — Lenses are used to bend and focus light. Normal lenses rely on their curved shape to achieve this effect, but physicists have made a flat lens of only three atoms thick which relies on quantum ...
May 30, 2024 — Although dengue outbreaks cannot be prevented, it is possible to anticipate them. Scientists have recently identified a global climate indicator that may help improve predictions about the magnitude ...
Friday, May 31, 2024
- Antibodies May Aid Effort to Fight Influenza B
- Children's Visual Experience May Hold Key to Better Computer Vision Training
Thursday, May 30, 2024
- Infants Hear Significantly More Speech Than Music at Home
- Trout in Mine-Polluted Rivers Are Genetically 'isolated'
- New Coral Disease Forecasting System
- Novel Mobile Air Monitoring Technology Yields Greater Insight Into Post-Disaster Pollution Levels
- Tiny Worm Helps Uncover Long-Lasting Prenatal Effects from Amphetamines
- Gene Variants Foretell the Biology of Future Breast Cancers
- Historic Iceberg Surges Offer Insights on Modern Climate Change
- Scientists Develop Visual Tool to Help People Group Foods Based on Their Levels of Processing
- Understanding How Zwitterionic Polymers Can Lead to Safer Drugs and Disease Prevention
- New Method Makes Hydrogen from Solar Power and Agricultural Waste
- 'Goldilocks' Binding Strength Determines Anti-Cancer T-Cell Efficacy and Fate
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy
- Combining Simulations and Experiments to Get the Best out of Fe3Al
- Innovative Bird-Eye-Inspired Camera Developed for Enhanced Object Detection
- High Groundwater Depletion Risk in South Korea in 2080s
- Safeguarding Urban Infrastructure from Subsidence and Liquefaction Risks
- The Thinnest Lens on Earth, Enabled by Excitons
- Indian Ocean Surface Temperature Could Help Anticipate Dengue Outbreaks
- Musankwa Sanyatiensis, a New Dinosaur from Zimbabwe
- Scientists Discover a Novel Modulator of Human Regulatory T Cells
- Researchers Discover That a Type of Childhood Leukaemia Originates During Fetal Development
- Rapid Urbanization in Africa Transforms Local Food Systems and Threatens Biodiversity
- Novel Vaccine Concept Generates Immune Responses That Could Produce Multiple Types of HIV Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies
- Existing Drug Shows Promise as Treatment for Rare Genetic Disorder
- New Anti-Counterfeit Technique Packs Two Light-Reactive Images Into One Material
- Cause of Heart Failure May Differ for Women and Men
- AI Saving Humans from the Emotional Toll of Monitoring Hate Speech
- Picture This: Snapping Photos of Our Food Could Be Good for Us
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- Antibiotic Pollution Disrupts the Gut Microbiome and Blocks Memory in Aquatic Snails
- Researchers Expose New Symbiosis Origin Theories, Identify Experimental Systems for Plant Life
- A Drying Salton Sea Pollutes Neighboring Communities
- Researchers Apply Quantum Computing Methods to Protein Structure Prediction
- Blood Flow Makes Waves Across the Surface of the Mouse Brain
- Do Epilepsy Medications Taken During Pregnancy Affect a Child's Creativity?
- First Hints of Memory Problems Associated With Changes in the Brain
- Theoretical Quantum Speedup With the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm
- Abandoned Farmlands Could Play a Role in Fighting Climate Change: A New Study Shows Exactly Where They Are
- Grow the Skin You're In: In Vivo Generation of Chimeric Skin Grafts
- Modular, Scalable Hardware Architecture for a Quantum Computer
- Identifying the Initial Steps in Colorectal Cancer Formation
- Editing Without 'cutting': Molecular Mechanisms of New Gene-Editing Tool Revealed
- Graphene Gets Cleaned Up
- Bio-Inspired Cameras and AI Help Drivers Detect Pedestrians and Obstacles Faster
- Chicken Feathers to Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs and Repair Enzymes
- Menstrual Periods Are Arriving Earlier for Younger Generations, Especially Among Racial Minority and Lower-Income Individuals
- Acute Sense of Touch Helps Hummingbirds Hover Near a Flower Without Bumping Into It
- Moon Orbiting 'dinky' Asteroid Is Actually Two Tiny Moons Stuck Together
- New Antibiotic Kills Pathogenic Bacteria, Spares Healthy Gut Microbes
- The Case of the Missing Black Holes
- AI Helps Medical Professionals Read Confusing EEGs to Save Lives
- Drug Resistance Discovery Could 'move the Field Forward' For Breast Cancer Treatment
- Electrochromic Films -- Like Sunglasses for Your Windows?
- New Research Approach: Exploring the Mouthfeel of Food With a Microscope
- Researchers Create Materials With Unique Combo of Stiffness, Thermal Insulation
- Researchers Improve Satellite Surveillance of Emperor Penguins
- What Makes Some Plant Groups So Successful?
- Aerosol Pollution, Greenhouse Gases Must Be Reduced Simultaneously to Keep Forest Fires in Check
- Intervention Reduces Stress and Feelings of Burden of Family Caregivers of Older Adults With Dementia
- Fatal Attraction: When Endangered Species Try to Mate With Domestic Relatives, Both Wildlife and People Lose
- Could a Medicated Foam Make Gene Therapies More Accessible?
- New Technique Offers More Precise Maps of the Moon's Surface
- Solving the Problems of Proton-Conducting Perovskites for Next-Generation Fuel Cells
- Scent Detection Dogs Discern Odour Molecules Better Than Previously Thought
- Heart Healthy Behaviors May Help Reverse Rapid Cell Aging
- Hitting the Target With Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation: Potential Therapy for Addiction, Depression, and OCD
- Biobased Building Materials Less Sustainable Than Concrete in South Africa, Experts Find
- Study Is Step Towards Energy-Efficient Quantum Computing in Magnets
- New Immunotherapy Could Treat Cancer in the Bone
- Bird Flu: Diverse Range of Vaccines Platforms 'crucial' For Enhancing Human Pandemic Preparedness
- Marine Protected Areas Don't Line Up With Core Habitats of Rare Migratory Fish, Finds New Research
- A Novel Multifunctional Catalyst Turns Methane Into Valuable Hydrocarbons
- Polymeric Films Protect Anodes from Sulfide Solid Electrolytes
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
- Intermittent Fasting Shows Promise in Improving Gut Health, Weight Management
- Scientists Identify Gene That Could Lead to Resilient 'pixie' Corn
- Altering Cancer Treatment Dosing Could Reduce Climate Impact, Study Finds
- New Deep Learning Model Is 'game Changer' For Measuring Embryo Development
- Smarter Foragers Do Not Forage Smarter
- Optimal Cancer-Killing T Cells Discovered
- Circadian Clock Can Be Leveraged to Enhance Cancer Immunotherapy
- A Unified Account of Darwinism's Varieties
- Cell-Targeting Technology Allows Researchers to Isolate Neuronal Subpopulations and Link Them to Behavioral States
- When Should You Neuter or Spay Your Dog?
- Mechanisms for Selective Multiple Sclerosis Treatment Strategy
- 'Cloaked' Proteins Deliver Cancer-Killing Therapeutics Into Cells
- Is It a Sound of Music...or of Speech? Scientists Uncover How Our Brains Try to Tell the Difference
- Performance of Eco-Friendly Cooling Applications Enhanced
- Fatherhood's Hidden Heart Health Toll
- Why Do Dyeing Poison Frogs Tap Dance?
- Wind Farms Are Cheaper Than You Think -- And Could Have Prevented Fukushima, Says Global Review
- Improved Refrigeration Could Save Nearly Half of the 1.3 Billion Tons of Food Wasted Each Year Globally
- Prenatal Exposure to Air Pollution Associated With Increased Mental Health Risks
- What Are the Risks of Hydrogen Vehicles in Tunnels?
- Scientists Uncover a Multibillion-Year Epic Written Into the Chemistry of Life
- 'The Magic of Making Electricity from Metals and Air' The Vexing Carbonate Has Achieved It!
- Study Suggests 'biodegradable' Teabags Don't Readily Deteriorate in the Environment and Can Adversely Affect Terrestrial Species
- Tracking Animals Without Markers in the Wild
- Inexpensive Microplastic Monitoring Through Porous Materials and Machine Learning
- Mystery of 'slow' Solar Wind Unveiled by Solar Orbiter Mission