Researchers use AI, Google street view to predict household energy costs on large scale
Low-income households in the United States are bearing an energy burden that is three times that of the average household, ...
Year: 2024
Research shows continued cocaine use disrupts communication between major brain networks
A collaborative research endeavor by scientists in the Departments of Radiology, Neurology, and Psychology and Neuroscience at the UNC School ...
Clearing the air reduces suicide rates
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Researchers in the United States and China have discovered a curious link between air pollution and ...
BRCA1 and BRCA2 in a cohort of ovarian cancer patients from the Salento peninsula
“Ovarian cancer (OC) is the third most prevalent type of gynecologic cancer affecting women after cervical and uterine cancer . ...
Prognostic model development and molecular subtypes identification in bladder urothelial cancer
“Our study introduces an oxidative stress-based prognostic model for bladder cancer, offering insights into personalized therapy.”Credit: 2024 Dong et al. ...
Ochsner Digital Medicine Partners with Humana Healthy Horizons
New Orleans, LA. – Ochsner Digital Medicine has partnered with Humana Healthy Horizons to provide digital medicine services to its ...
80 mph speed record for glacier fracture helps reveal the physics of ice sheet collapse
There’s enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet. ...
Detroit scientists develop a simple blood test to quickly diagnose sarcoidosis
DETROIT – A research project led by Lobelia Samavati, M.D., professor of internal medicine and molecular medicine and genetics at ...
Climate change threatens thousands of archaeological sites in coastal Georgia
Thousands of historic and archaeological sites in Georgia are at risk from tropical storm surges, and that number will increase ...
Harassment on public transport negatively impacts women’s health and welfare, with existing measures being largely ineffective, per systematic review
Harassment on public transport negatively impacts women's health and welfare, with existing measures being largely ineffective, per systematic reviewCredit: Victoriano ...
ESA 2024 Graduate Student Policy Award Cohort named
The Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy ...
Avian influenza virus is adapting to spread to marine mammals
The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 has adapted to spread between birds and marine mammals, posing an immediate threat ...
Pew names scientists from 6 countries as 2024 fellows in marine conservation
PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it has selected six distinguished researchers as recipients of the 2024 Pew fellowship ...
New tool helps decipher gene behaviour
Scientists have extensively researched the structure and sequence of genetic material and its interactions with proteins in the hope of ...
Anti-ageing drug rapamycin improves immune function through endolysosomes
The therapeutic drug rapamycin, which is normally used in cancer therapy and after organ transplants, can extend the lifespan and ...
Double trouble at chromosome ends
Double Trouble at Chromosome EndsCredit: Credit Sarah Cai Double Trouble at Chromosome Ends Half a century ago, scientists Jim Watson ...
CityUHK develops world-leading microwave photonics chip for high-speed signal processing
A research team led by Professor Wang Cheng from the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) at City University of Hong Kong ...
Nature’s sonar: Scientists reveal how Japanese horseshoe bats perceive moving objects
Unlike most animals that rely on visual senses, bats navigate and locate prey or obstacles through echolocation. By emitting sounds ...
How 40Hz sensory gamma rhythm stimulation clears amyloid in Alzheimer’s mice
Studies at MIT and elsewhere are producing mounting evidence that light flickering and sound clicking at the gamma brain rhythm frequency of ...
Breeding programs initiated in Vietnam to help turtle species threatened by extinction
Conservationists have initiated breeding programs in Vietnam to recover spotted softshell turtle populations threatened by overconsumption and habitat loss.Credit: C. ...