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Trying to understand the water bear body plan
Tardigrades, often called “water bears”, are fascinating microscopic organisms known for their incredible resilience—they can survive anything from deadly radiation...
UVA engineers design lookalike drug carrier to evade lung’s lines of defense
A drug-carrying molecule designed to cure disease by slipping past the lung’s natural defenses offers new hope for people with...
Life after (feigned) death
A new study led by scientists from the University of Bristol has revealed what animals do after they have feigned...
Spontaneous transfer of mitochondrial DNA into the nuclear genomes in the human brain over the individual’s lifespan
Somatic nuclear mitochondrial DNA (Numt) insertions are mito-nuclear gene transfer events that can arise in the germline and in cancer....
The secret to sleepy cells’ control of inflammatory secretions
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys and the La Jolla Institute for Immunology have revealed a new secret regarding senescence, a...
Air pollution harms mental health worse in New York’s historically redlined neighborhoods
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Air pollution is bad for mental health. That much is clear. Now, new research shows the impact...
New NSF Center for Pandemic Insights
Preventing the next pandemic begins before diseases emerge. This “pre-emergence” phase is the focus of a new center funded by...
ARDD 2024 | What can we do before the “cliff” of aging arrives?
When exactly does the aging process start? With the aging mechanisms unclear, no consensus has been reached about aging “cliffs”,...
A world first: Qubit coherence decay traced to thermal dissipation
Physicists from Aalto University in Finland, alongside an international team of collaborators, have theoretically and experimentally shown that superconducting qubit...
Innovative perovskite waveguides with edge lasing effect
Integrated photonic circuits operating at room temperature combined with optical nonlinear effects could revolutionize both classical and quantum signal processing....
‘Kate the Chemist’ joins the University of Notre Dame as new professor for the public understanding of science
The University of Notre Dame's College of Science has announced the creation of a new, strategic faculty position: professor for the public...
Reading your biological age in your blood or saliva? It’s not as simple as that
How old are you, really? Your chronological age is the number of years you have been alive. Your biological age...
Hydrogels can play Pong by “remembering” previous patterns of electrical simulation
Non-living hydrogels can play the video game Pong and improve their gameplay with more experience, researchers report August 23 in...
New detectable gravitational wave source from collapsing stars predicted from simulations
The death of a massive, rapidly spinning star can shake the universe. And the resulting ripples — known as gravitational...
Eight years after the Fundão dam collapse: unresolved devastation continues to plague Brazil
Eight years since the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam in Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, researchers have highlighted ongoing environmental...
Role of bitter polyphenols in the regulation of blood sugar
Bioactive compounds like polyphenols and their health benefits have long captured public attention and interest. Commonly present in plant-based food...
Chronic cough may be hereditary
Chronic cough is among the most common reasons for seeking medical care, with middle-aged women the group most affected. New...
Living plastics: a new solution for plastic degradation through synthetic biology
On August 21, 2024, Dr. DAI Zhuojun's research group at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of...
AI can speed up drug development
Artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify molecules that could serve as new drugs for mental health disorders. AI can be...
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Novel redox-active metal-organic framework as an anode material for Li batteries operating in freezing conditions
The Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has developed a redox-active metal-organic hybrid electrode material (SKIER-5) for Li batteries that remains stable...
