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A 20-year-old puzzle solved: KAIST research team reveals the ‘three-dimensional vortex’ of zero-dimensional ferroelectrics
Materials that can maintain a magnetized state by themselves without an external magnetic field (i.e., permanent magnets) are called ferromagnets....
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles team finds new potential causes of rare and lethal bone cancer
Little is known about the genetics and biology of chordoma, a rare and aggressive bone tumor. Chordomas occur in approximately...
New coral disease forecasting system led by University of Hawai’i team
Research led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) has led to a new...
Glimpses of a volcanic world: New telescope images of Jupiter’s moon Io rival those from spacecraft
New images of Jupiter's volcano-studded moon Io, taken by the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham in Arizona, offer the...
Wake Forest University School of Medicine awarded $1.5 million from NIH to use advanced imaging to assess bone loss after bariatric surgery
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – May 30, 2024 – Researchers at Wake Forest University of School of Medicine have received a five-year, $1.5...
Researchers identify factors that heighten risk for catheter-associated urinary tract infections and sepsis
Urinary catheters are required for nearly every surgical procedure. However, a major challenge for the health care industry is predicting...
How community stress affects Black Americans’ mental health and wellbeing
URBANA, Illinois – Residential segregation is an example of the long history of structural racism in the United States. Black...
Insilico Medicine President Alex Aliper, Ph.D. to present at Systems Aging Gordon Research Conference
Alex Aliper, PhD, president of global clinical stage artificial intelligence (AI)-powered drug discovery company Insilico Medicine (“Insilico”) will present at...
Virginia Tech scientists develop visual tool to help people group foods based on their levels of processing
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC scientists studying ultra-processed foods have created a new tool for assessing the rewarding and...
UW–Madison scientists develop most sensitive way to observe single molecules
MADISON — Scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have developed the most sensitive method yet for detecting and profiling a...
Human cervix modeled in microfluidic organ chip fills key women’s health gap
Human cervix modeled in microfluidic organ chip fills key women's health gapCredit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University Human cervix modeled...
Syracuse University biologist calls for protection and more studies of natural time capsules of climate change
Packrats, also known as woodrats, are the original hoarders, collecting materials from their environment to make their nests, called middens. In...
Reexamining misinformation: How unflagged, factual content drives vaccine hesitancy
What threatens public health more, a deliberately false Facebook post about tracking microchips in the COVID-19 vaccine that is flagged...
New, modified CRISPR protein can fit inside virus used for gene therapy
Researchers have developed a novel version of a key CRISPR gene-editing protein that shows efficient editing activity and is small...
Is your coffee ‘not hot’ or ‘cold’? Observing how the brain processes negated adjectives
Negating an adjective by placing ‘not’ in front of it affects the way our brains interpret its meaning, mitigating but...
Cuckoos evolve to look like their hosts – and form new species in the process
The theory of coevolution says that when closely interacting species drive evolutionary changes in each other this can lead to...
Novel virus identified in zebrafish from the pet trade causes disease in laboratory fish
Zebrafish in the pet trade are asymptomatic carriers of previously undescribed microbes, including a novel virus that causes hemorrhaging in...
Cause of heart failure may differ for women and men
A new study from the UC Davis School of Medicine found striking differences at the cellular level between male and...
Comprehensive transcriptional atlas of human adenomyosis deciphered by the integration of single-cell RNA-sequencing and spatial transcriptomics
Adenomyosis is a poorly understood gynecological disorder with limited treatment options. The study employed single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics...
Fast learning collaboration with BasCat leads to discovery of a new catalytic promoter on par with decades of study
Addressing climate change demands rethinking of established chemical processes on a timescale of years rather than decades as in traditional...
