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Credit: Masayuki Kondo Approximately 30 percent of CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by human activities, mainly the use of fossil ...

A guidebook for local governments and CBOs to support elderly people to take out the trash

Credit: NIES One of the issues related to waste management in aging society is helping elderly people who find it ...

Antiarrhythmic drug identified as potential treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension

Findings reported in The American Journal of Pathology suggest dofetilide may counteract pathological changes in potassium channels associated with pulmonary ...

Experiment suggests the best ways to tackle invasive Oregon grape in Belgian coastal dunes

Credit: Tim Adriaens The Belgian coastal dunes, a protected habitat of high conservation value, are getting severely impacted by one ...

Local traditional knowledge can be as accurate as scientific transect monitoring

New research from a cross-organisational consortium in the Amazon has found indigenous knowledge to be as accurate as scientific transect ...

Bumblebees exposed to Chernobyl-levels of radiation consume more nectar

Credit: Jessica Burrows The study simulated Chernobyl-levels of radiation exposure in a laboratory to investigate the impacts it may be ...

Flipping the script on novel cancer therapy leads to insights into lupus

Credit: (Image credit: Chen Lab) In the last decade, scientists discovered that blocking a key regulator of the immune system ...

University of Iowa receives major grant to continue work on Huntington’s disease

$18 million NIH grant for research to understand brain development in children at risk for HDCredit: University of Iowa Health ...

NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon

Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Brendan Gallagher and Guillermo Stenborg) WASHINGTON - A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on ...

Tsoi lives in Malaysian forests

Sergey Ermilov, a researcher from Tyumen State University, discovered and described a new species of oribatid mites that lives on ...

National Academy of Inventors elects Pitt’s William J. Federspiel as Fellow

Pitt Bioengineer recognized for life-saving artificial lung technologyCredit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (Dec. 11, 2019) ... With 12 issued U.S. ...

Understanding Asteraceae: Validation of a Hyb-Seq probe set for evolutionary studies

Credit: Jones, K. E., T. Fér, R. E. Schmickl, R. B. Dikow, V. A. Funk, S. Herrando-Moraira, P. R. Johnston, ...

Researchers discover brain circuit linked to food impulsivity

This creates the possibility scientists can someday develop therapeutics to address overeatingCredit: Cal Powell You're on a diet, but the ...

Earth was stressed before dinosaur extinction

Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impactCredit: Northwestern University Shells' chemistry shifted to ...

Safer viruses for vaccine research and diagnosis

Credit: Dr Daniel Watterson A new technology to produce safer 'hybrid' viruses at high volumes for use in vaccines and ...

Crucial collaboration: Expanding naval capability through ties with industry, academia

Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by Eric M. Butler/Released) ARLINGTON, Va.--The secret sauce of successful naval acquisitions requires a vital ingredient: ...

Composite to replace cast iron in harsh maritime environments

Inside the giant engines in the world's largest ships are huge heat exchangers made of cast iron; for the first ...

Cheers! Maxwell’s electromagnetism extended to smaller scales

Credit: Marin Soljači Research Group More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since the publication of James Clerk ...

Single-cell analysis of the earliest cell fate decisions in development

Multi-omics analysis of the process establishing the mammalian body planCredit: The embryo and cell images were created by Veronique Juvin ...

Study supports long-term benefits of non-drug therapies for pain