Researchers identify brain ion channel as new approach to treating depression
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a drug that ...
Month: March 2021
The social and economic cost of eating disorders in the United States
Credit: J Streatfeild et al., International Journal of Eating Disorders (2021) The impact of eating disorders in the United States ...
Chickpea genetics reduce need for chemicals
Credit: George Vandemark In recent years, hummus has become a pop culture food phenomenon, drawing praises from dieticians for the ...
Reclamation awards $3.6 million to improve desalination technologies
Credit: Alex Stephens/Bureau of Reclamation WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is awarding $3.6 million to 10 projects for advanced ...
Cooperative eco-driving automation improves energy efficiency and safety
Credit: Sarah Atkinson/Michigan Tech Imagine you're driving up a hill toward a traffic light. The light is still green so ...
Solving the biochemical conundrum at the dawn of life on Earth
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists Charles Carter, Qi Zhang, and Abigail Knight were awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to ...
Food for thought: New maps reveal how brains are kept nourished
Micro-scale depictions solve century-old puzzle of brain energy use and blood vessel clustersCredit: Xiang Ji and Edmund O'Donnell, UC San ...
Scientists use forest color to gauge permafrost depth
Credit: Veronika Döpper Scientists regularly use remote sensing drones and satellites to record how climate change affects permafrost thaw rates ...
A quantum internet is closer to reality, thanks to this switch
New approach could help quantum networks to support more users without losing dataCredit: Purdue University/Navin Lingaraju WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- ...
Novel drug prevents amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease
In animal models, the new compound modulated a key enzyme, reducing or eliminating production of problematic protein fragments; human clinical ...
Indoors, outdoors, 6 feet apart? Transmission risk of airborne viruses can be quantified
The dynamics of how aerosols travel from one person to another, under different circumstancesCredit: Mj Riches In the 1995 movie ...
Oregon researchers unveil the weaving fractal network of connecting neurons
Quest to design implants to treat macular degeneration leads research team to a discovery that connectivity is completed with a ...
A Skoltech robot analyzes shoppers’ behavior
Credit: Skoltech Researchers from Skoltech's Intelligent Space Robotics Lab have proposed a novel method for customer behavior analytics and demand ...
$5M grant to fund Cincinnati Children’s study of air pollution and mental health
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists at Cincinnati Children's just received a 5-year grant totaling $5.3 million from the National ...
Healthcare protections for LGBTQ persons may broaden under Biden administration
Credit: West Virginia University Healthcare sex discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community may be expanded under the Biden Administration, including ...
NRL physicist earns 2020 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
Credit: Matthew Kerr; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Imagine living in a large city. New York City, Los Angeles, ...
A fluid solution to dendrite growth in lithium metal batteries
Credit: Jiandi Wan, UC Davis A new paper from associate professor Jiandi Wan's group in the UC Davis Department of ...
Placebo effect may explain reported benefits of psychedelic microdoses
The largest placebo-controlled trial of psychedelics to date suggests that the reported psychological benefits of microdosing are likely explained by ...
COVID-19 can kill heart muscle cells, interfere with contraction
Study reveals details of how coronavirus infects heart; models of tissue damage may help develop potential therapiesCredit: Lina Greenberg Since ...
Intriguing particles emerge when two photons couple
Researchers exploring the interactions between light particles, photons and matter find that optical microresonators host quasiparticles made by two photons.Credit: ...
