Timely pandemic countermeasures reduce both health damage and economic loss
The COVID-19 pandemic has had, and continues to have, profound impacts on the world. In the early stages of the...
The roly-poly gold rush
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2023 – The woodlouse goes by many names: roly-poly, pill bug, potato bug, tomato bug, butchy boy,...
Stopping storms from creating dangerous urban geysers
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2023 – During intense rainstorms, residents of urban areas rely on stormwater sewers to keep streets and...
Understanding a community’s shared vision for public health is key to supporting change
Philadelphia, April 11, 2023 – The prevalence of obesity in rural communities goes beyond food choice and geography to include...
Family tree of ‘boring’ butterflies reveals they’re anything but
Walk a short distance through the Amazon Rainforest, and you might witness what look like dead leaves launch from the...
Femtosecond lasers with GHz bursts in MHz burst (BiBurst) enhances ablation speed of silicon by a factor of 23
Scientists working on laser application at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) have employed a new technique using GHz...
Correlate phonon modes with ion transport via isotope substitution
This study is led by Prof. Shou-Hang Bo (Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Jiao Tong...
Tailings dams degrade the upstream variety and abundance of fish species
Streams are complex habitats that can be affected by changes further upstream or downstream. Even small dams and reservoirs can...
Improving gene therapy with tiny bubbles
CLEVELAND—Beyond vaccines, mRNA offers immense potential to fight disease, but targeting the genetic material to specific diseased cells is challenging—requiring...
Merons and antimerons
Sliding and twisting of van der Waals layers can produce fascinating physical phenomena. In a recent publication in Nature Communications,...
New airway cell type holds promise for respiratory diseases
During specialization, the individual cells form different airway cell types, a process that can include a period of uncertainty, although...
Mutant strains of Salmonella make infection more aggressive in commercial poultry, study shows
In Brazil, a group of researchers supported by FAPESP created mutant forms of Salmonella to understand the mechanisms that favor colonization of...
New findings that map the universe’s cosmic growth support Einstein’s theory of gravity
For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos.Credit: ACT Collaboration For millennia, humans have been fascinated...
Over 60 percent of Saudi Arabian respondents never took a colorectal cancer test | BGI Insight
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most diagnosed cancer among males and third among females in Saudi Arabia, with up to...
Male yellow crazy ants are real-life chimeras
The yellow crazy ant, or Anoplolepis gracilipes, has the infamous distinction of being among the worst invasive species in the...
Trees in areas prone to hurricanes have strong ability to survive even after severe damage
As their plane flew low on its approach to land at the airport on the island of Dominica, researchers from...
Mint flavor makes vape juice more toxic, damaging to lungs
PITTSBURGH, April 10, 2023 – Adding mint flavor to e-cigarette liquids produces more vapor particles and is associated with worse...
A new primary care model proves effective for patients with severe mental illness
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Over the past few years, the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry in...
Vaccine hesitancy has become a nationwide issue: What can science do about it?
South Carolina residents were more hesitant than Americans as a whole to receive the COVID-19 vaccine during the fall of...
Roundtable on community engagement in data decision-making
A Roundtable Discussion was recently held to discuss the importance of community voice in developing 21st century public health systems....
