Looking back on 250 years of drought on the Korean peninsula
Many farmers battled extreme drought and heatwave conditions this year. The social and economic impacts of drought are nothing new. ...
New therapeutic target could check the progress of Alzheimer’s disease
A new study conducted by the scientist of the UMA Inés Moreno, in collaboration with the University of Texas, has ...
New UCI-led report illustrates potential of precision genome editing in treating inherited retinal diseases
Irvine, CA - September 23, 2022 - In a new paper, University of California, Irvine researchers explain how precision genome ...
A potential new treatment for brain tumors
A research question posed in Pankaj Desai’s lab has led to a decade of research, a clinical trial and major ...
Fighting fungal infections with metals
Each year, more than one billion people contract a fungal infection. Although they are harmless to most people, over 1.5 ...
Findings explain exceptional auditory abilities in Williams-Beuren Syndrome
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a rare disorder that causes neurocognitive and developmental deficits. However, musical and auditory abilities are preserved ...
Mutation in key molecules could stop gonorrhea infection, biomedical sciences researchers find
ATLANTA—Creating a mutation that inhibits how the bacterial pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted infection, could offer a new ...
Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement 2022 awarded to the ‘Planets In Your Hand’ Tactile Exhibition
The 2022 Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement has been awarded to Dr Kosmas Gazeas and the team behind the ‘Planets ...
The Ministry of Economy signs agreement to support teaching and research in HPC/HPDA/AI
The University plans to launch a 120 ECTS Master's degree within the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, and is ...
Planetary-scale ‘heat wave’ discovered in Jupiter’s atmosphere
An unexpected ‘heat wave’ of 700 degrees Celsius, extending 130,000 kilometres (10 Earth diameters) in Jupiter’s atmosphere, has been discovered. ...
Scientists reveal the different effects on storm tracks between the upper- and lower-level eddy growth over the North Pacific
A well-known phenomenon in the atmospheric sciences that challenges the classical baroclinic instability theory of cyclone development is midwinter suppression. ...
Brain found to simultaneously process linguistic and extralinguistic information
An international team of scientists from the UK, Spain, Denmark and Russia (including researchers from the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience) ...
Will climate-change-driven temporal variation in precipitation affect crop yields and reactive nitrogen losses?
Climate change (e.g., global warming) is intensifying the global water cycle and the temporal variation of precipitation has increased significantly. ...
Discovery could power up platelet production to battle blood shortages
A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine could let doctors ramp up production of blood-clotting platelets ...
Tree study shows low-income Brisbane suburbs need more shade
Researchers say more investment in tree planting is needed after discovering inequality in shade-coverage across certain Brisbane suburbs.Credit: The University of ...
Strong link between gut bacteria and metabolites
There are strong links between bacteria living in the gut and the levels of small molecules in the blood known ...
Robot sleeves for kids with cerebral palsy
UC Riverside engineers are developing low-cost, robotic “clothing” to help children with cerebral palsy gain control over their arm movements. Credit: ...
Transition to newer clot-busting drug improves patient outcomes, lowers cost in treating ischemic stroke
A newer-generation clot-busting drug called tenecteplase outperforms the traditional treatment for ischemic strokes in several key areas, including better health ...
Monkeypox outbreak highlights need for One Health approach to prevent future zoonotic diseases
The current global outbreak of monkeypox is yet another warning for the adoption of a preventative, One Health, approach to ...
Moradi receives NIH Outstanding Investigator Award
Chemistry professor Mahmoud Moradi, whose research focuses on computational simulations of coronavirus and other diseases, has received an Outstanding Investigator ...