Climate-driven extreme heat may make parts of Earth too hot for humans
If global temperatures increase by 1 degree Celsius (C) or more than current levels, each year billions of people will ...
Long-term lizard study challenges the rules of evolutionary biology
Charles Darwin said that evolution was constantly happening, causing animals to adapt for survival. But many of his contemporaries disagreed. ...
Could a specialized diet alleviate long COVID?
LOS ANGELES — Approximately 7% of Americans have had long COVID, a range of ongoing health problems experienced after infection ...
New study finds that the Gulf Stream is warming and shifting closer to shore
Credit: Illustration by Natalie Renier/©Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Journal Nature Climate Change DOI 10.1038/s41558-023-01835-w Method of Research Data/statistical analysis Subject ...
Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D., elected to the National Academy of Medicine for seminal work in immunology and cell biology
Miriam Merad, M.D., Ph.D., an esteemed immunologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been elected to ...
Newly-discovered “margarita snails” from the Florida Keys are bright lemon-yellow
The “Margaritaville” in Jimmy Buffett’s famous song isn’t a real place, but it’s long been associated with the Florida Keys. ...
Tropical ecosystems more reliant on emerging aquatic insects, study finds, potentially putting them at greater risk
A team of researchers from Queen Mary University of London and the University of Campinas in Brazil has found that ...
Researchers identify largest ever solar storm in ancient 14,300-year-old tree rings
An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analysing ancient tree-rings ...
Is this how antidepressants work, and why they take weeks to kick-in?
Type of work: peer-reviewed/randomised controlled trial/peopleCredit: (credit: Marc Dingman, Neuroscientifically Challenged (www.neurochallenged.com). Type of work: peer-reviewed/randomised controlled trial/people SSRI antidepressants ...
Teaching expectant mothers to bond with their babies
Type of work: Peer-reviewed / experimental study / peopleCredit: Design by Dr. Anne Bjertrup via Canva Type of work: Peer-reviewed ...
Scientists upcycle polyesters through new waste-free, scalable process
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new chemical process which upcycles polyesters, including PET in ...
SUSTAIN Center at UH commemorates five years of combatting AIDS/HIV epidemic in Southern U.S.
The SUSTAIN Wellbeing COMPASS Coordinating Center of the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work has made a lasting ...
Wearable bracelet tracks bipolar mood swings: changing electrical signals in skin linked to manic or depressed moods
Not peer-reviewed/experimental study/peopleCredit: redit: Diego Hidalgo-Mazzei Not peer-reviewed/experimental study/people Researchers have announced preliminary results of using wearable technology to measure ...
The currency of conservation
Governments, nonprofit organizations, and other groups spend roughly $100 billion a year to support conservation. Restrictions on where conservation funds ...
ORNL is poised to have a major role in the future of nuclear physics
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a bastion of nuclear physics research for the past 80 years, is ...
World-first research breakthrough sparks new hope for bowel cancer patients
Every year, over 15,500 Australians are diagnosed with bowel cancer, and it is the second leading cause of cancer deaths ...
Human brain seems impossible to map. What if we started with mice?
The human brain is a tangled highway of wires emanating from nearly 100 billion neurons, all of which communicate across ...
Kidney disease gene also has a protective mutation
African Americans have long been known to be at increased risk of kidney disease due to a dangerous genetic mutation ...
How male mosquitoes compensate for having only one X chromosome
The research group of Dr. Claudia Keller Valsecchi at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz and their collaborators ...
The efficient perovskite cells with a structured anti-reflective layer – another step towards commercialization on a wider scale
Perovskite-based solar cells, widely considered as successors to the currently dominant silicon cells, due to their simple and cost-effective production ...