A new artificial-intelligence technology for heart imaging can improve care for patients, allowing doctors to examine their hearts for scar…...
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A new study predicts that extreme sea levels — exceptionally high seas due to the combination of tide, waves and… The post Extreme sea lev...
Researchers have demonstrated that genes are capable of identifying and responding to coded information in light signals, as well as… The ...
Staying home and limiting local travel, supporting access to primary care, and limiting contacts in contagion hubs — including hospitals,… ...
Half of pregnant women who had a simple blood test to check their iron stores had low iron levels, and… The post One in two pregnancies ar...
As much as 90% of the risk of a heart attack, stroke, or peripheral arterial disease (PAD) can be explained… The post How can I avoid hear...
The human body can be genetically inclined to attack its own cells, destroying the beta cells in the pancreas that… The post Researchers u...
Updating the laws, the researchers say, will allow the true value of public resources to be revealed in an environmental… The post Archaic...
As scientists continue to explore the wide-ranging effects of heat stress on the health of dairy cattle, a new study… The post Heat stress...
Around 650 million years ago, the Earth entered into the Marinoan glaciation that saw the entire planet freeze. The ‘Snowball… The post Ba...
Academics have been monitoring the Lyme Bay Marine Protected area using underwater cameras and other techniques since 2008, but this… The ...
Roe deer are among the few mammals whose embryos go into a particularly long period of dormancy. Using modern molecular… The post Embryoni...
The world’s oceans are becoming increasingly stressful places for marine life, and experts are working to understand what this means… The ...
As climate change continues to do more damage to our planet, scientists are working to find more efficient and cleaner… The post Using yea...
In a new study, researchers have measured the number of pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in backyard and commercial compost. The ...
A researcher has discovered that fish can bend their spines and heads upwards, despite having different anatomy from humans and… The post ...
Scientists have developed a new cooling method that will allow easier measurements of a property of protons and antiprotons called… The po...
Opioids are powerful painkillers but their use is hindered because patients become tolerant to them, requiring higher and higher doses,… T...
A CT scan of the skull of a long-necked plesiosaur shows the cranial architecture of these long-extinct marine reptiles didn’t… The post C...
Early socialization of dairy calves is sometimes given lesser priority in the interest of physical health, with young calves housed… The p...
An engineering researcher has modified a smartwatch to reduce stress. The new technology monitors sweat to infer brain stress and,… The po...
Among adolescents ages 10 to 14 in the U.S, the overall rate of drug use remained relatively stable in the… The post How adolescents used ...
While moving around within the gas in the interstellar medium, cosmic rays kickstart the background protons, which causes a collective… Th...
A recent study led by an entomologist explores the different kinds of cells that make up mosquito immune systems. The… The post Studying m...
Drinking alcohol during adolescence to young adulthood is associated with accelerated arterial stiffening, a precursor to cardiovascular dis...
At certain sites in the Grand Canyon, more than one billion years’ worth of rocks have gone missing from the… The post Geologists dig into...
Scientists have developed a novel way to isolate exosomes from cow’s milk. Exosomes are nano-sized biological capsules that cells produce… ...
The same phenomenon that causes aurorae — the magical curtains of green light often visible from the polar regions of… The post Under the ...
Innovators have created a novel strategy for developing an effective vaccine for a widespread form of tuberculosis. The post Researchers d...
The quantum computing market is projected to reach $65 billion by 2030, a hot topic for investors and scientists alike… The post Opening a...
A new preclinical study suggests that treating people who have aggressive cancers, including melanoma, pancreatic and colorectal cancers, wi...
A new study shows that zooplankton swim up and down repeatedly within the ocean’s twilight zone due to subtle changes… The post Cloud shad...
A microphysiological system (MPS) is a 3D organ construct using human cells. They show us how organs respond to drugs… The post New imagin...
Researchers have developed a new way to deliver molecular therapies to cells. The system, called SEND, can be programmed to… The post Scie...
With wind generation one of the fastest-growing renewable energy sectors in the world, experts are using machine learning and other… The p...
The absence of a protein that activates the body’s antiviral defenses can cause a rare rheumatoid-like autoinflammatory condition that is… ...
A new study predicts that any sea level rise in the world’s most southern continent will be countered by an… The post Increased snowfall w...
The genome of the seadragon, a very unusual fish, has been decoded. Seadragons (Phyllopetryx taeniolatus) live off the coast in… The post ...
A research team offers a practical way to make ships CO2 neutral — or even CO2 negative — with CO2-capturing… The post The case for onboar...
Rising temperatures could help some northern-latitude bees fly better, but more frequent extreme weather events could push them past their… ...
On average, people in larger cities are better off economically. But a new study builds on previous research that says,… The post As citi...
New research suggests that officials should prioritize contact tracing and quarantine. The post Contact tracing is key to suppressing COVI...
A new preclinical study provides the first direct evidence that loss of a placental hormone during pregnancy alters long-term brain… The p...
New evidence shows that patients with Long COVID syndrome continue to have higher measures of blood clotting, which may help… The post Blo...
Scientists have built a compact electron camera that can capture the inner, ultrafast dynamics of matter. The system shoots short… The pos...
Artificial nest experiments demonstrated that the raccoon dog, an alien species abundant in Finland, is a more common duck nest… The post ...
Pre-mRNA splicing in a subset of human short introns is governed by a distinct mechanism involving a new splicing factor,… The post Discov...
A decades-old problem about how to reliably control millions of qubits in a silicon quantum computer chip has now been… The post ‘Missing ...
New research shows how bacteria can overcome starvation situations and survive for an extended period, which has broader implications for… ...
The production of the Alzheimer’s-associated, toxic protein amyloid beta in the brain is tightly regulated by cholesterol in the cell… The...
Researchers took a middling monomer and, by using a special catalyst, they created a tougher polymer that can form long… The post Polymer ...
If you feel like your metabolism just isn’t what it used to be, no matter how many hours you spend… The post Humans aren’t the only specie...
An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of the… The...
Quantum entanglement is one of the most fundamental and intriguing phenomena in nature. Recent research on entanglement has proven to… The...
Results from a new study reveal that targeting interferon kappa, a protein made by skin cells, may reduce the severity… The post For psori...
Those youngest in a class were more likely to experience low educational achievement, substance misuse disorder, and depression in later… ...
A new study reports that patients hospitalized with Lyme disease had a 28 percent higher rate of mental disorders and… The post Lyme disea...
Researchers have identified two sugar-binding proteins that impede the viral entry of circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants. The team may have fou...
A global catastrophe 66 million years ago led to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs, and large marine reptiles like… The post Shark...
Addressing climate change requires not only a clean electrical grid, but also a clean fuel to reduce emissions from industrial… The post A...
A new special edition of EPJ Special Topics brings together several papers that detail our understanding of Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP)… The ...
By examining MRI data from a large Open Science repository, researchers reconstructed a brain connectivity pattern, and applied it to… The...
A team develops a highly efficient super-resolution imaging based on deep learning. The post Overcoming the limitations of scanning electr...
Smartphones have made multi-tasking easier, more understandable, and at times compulsive. But in social settings, these devices can lead to…...
Bacterial infections relating to medical implants place a huge burden on healthcare and cause great suffering to patients worldwide. Now,… ...
In a randomized control study of 10 healthy young men, researchers compared how consuming the single amino acid leucine or… The post Study...
Anouk Wipprech has created “The Spider Dress,” which enforces social distancing via the bone-like tentacles with sensors surrounding the bod...
Intense blooms of toxic algae are becoming common occurrences along the coast of Florida and elsewhere. Results from a new… The post Face ...
Researchers have found that introducing a polymer coating onto a tin catalyst accelerated the conversion of a greenhouse gas (CO2)… The po...
Researchers have found that a machine learning algorithm can predict the location of actin-associated proteins in lamellipodia and other sub...
Today’s gold standard for COVID diagnostics is qRT-PCR, but turnaround is typically more than a day. Newer assays using CRISPR… The post U...
Fasting before and during exposure to Salmonella enterica bacteria protects mice from developing a full-blown infection, in part due to… T...
An immune signal promotes the production of energy-burning ‘beige fat,’ according to a new study. The finding may lead to… The post Cytoki...
Traditionally used energy harvesting technologies, like photovoltaic panels or wind turbines, suffer from several limitations. In the absenc...
Eating a plant-centered diet during young adulthood is associated with a lower risk of heart disease in middle age, according… The post Ea...
Researchers found that a specific subtype of macrophages that originated from blood monocytes plays a key role in the hyper-inflammatory… ...
The average American eats roughly 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day — more than three times the recommended amount… The post An overactive...
Recently, a pair of NASA studies identified the most likely locations to find pieces of the Moon’s mantle on the… The post Early molten mo...
Scientists studied microorganisms from an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean, pioneering a method that could open new windows into… ...
Researchers have now developed a non-invasive method to help diagnose celiac disease and which uses saliva. This research has shown… The p...
Researchers have discovered that a cellular phenomenon called cryptic transcription, which had been previously described and linked to aging...
Quantum information could be behind the next technological revolution. By analogy with the bit in classical computing, the qubit is… The p...
New research shows that mice can teach us about decision-making strategies. Mice in the study autonomously trained themselves to make… The...
Several proteins have been identified in hosts that interact with Ebola virus and primarily function to inhibit the production of… The pos...
The dangers of neonicotinoid insecticides likely can’t be watered down. That’s the conclusion of a new study showing an insecticide… The p...
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