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Experiment on YouTube reveals potential to ‘inoculate’ millions of users against misinformation
Short animations giving viewers a taste of the tactics behind misinformation can help to “inoculate” people against harmful content on...
How near-death experiences and psychedelics alter attitudes about death
A new study compares how people’s attitudes about death may change after a psychedelic drug experience versus a non-drug-related near-death...
Twitter shows lower-to-middle income countries have higher unemployment post pandemic
TORONTO, Aug. 24, 2022 – Lower-to-middle-income countries still struggle with high unemployment rates after COVID-19 lockdowns and economic restrictions, unlike higher-income...
Researchers discover fossils of giant sea lizard that ruled the oceans 66 million years ago
Researchers have discovered a huge new mosasaur from Morocco, named Thalassotitan atrox, which filled the apex predator niche. With massive...
New method of examining the brain’s electrical signals could hold the key to better treatment of epilepsy and schizophrenia
A new method of examining the brain’s electrical signals could hold the key to better treatment and understanding of conditions...
Sawfish fossils suggest teeth likely evolved from body scales in ancient fish
ERIE, Pa. — Scientists have long debated the origins of teeth. Did they evolve from body scales that migrated into...
Blood tests reveal gene expression changes in dolphins following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0272345Credit: NMMF/CARMMHA, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0272345 Article Title: Transcriptome profiling of blood from common bottlenose dolphins...
Dogs with more active owners may get more exercise
A new, international study suggests that dog owners who spend more time exercising themselves tend to exercise their dogs more,...
Professor Diane Saunders named recipient of the 2022 Rosalind Franklin Award to promote women in wheat
Professor Diane Saunders is announced as the recipient of the 2022 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award and Lecture. The award...
A new kind of chemo
Chemotherapy sucks. The treatments generally have awful side effects, and it’s no secret that the drugs involved are often toxic...
Movement of the solar system through the Milky Way’s galactic spiral arms helped form Earth’s first continents
24 August 2022 The Geological Society of America Release no. 22-44 Contributed by Laura Fattaruso Contact: Kea Giles +1-303-357-1057 [email protected]...
Danes lost 30.000 years of healthy life due to COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic
COVID-19 has had an enormous health impact on societies all over the world. In Denmark, a total of 30,000 healthy...
Plant immune systems can adapt to non-living environmental stressors, a new study reveals
When we think of plants, the phrase “stressed out” doesn’t typically come to mind. They are, after all, exempt from...
Organ-development discovery could boost battle against cancer
A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine has shed light on how our digestive tract, lungs...
Use of chest, abdominopelvic CT for traumatic injury increased from 2011–18
Leesburg, VA, August 24, 2022—According to ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), from 2011 to 2018, national utilization of chest...
Insilico Medicine demonstrates value of AI approach to drug discovery
Andy Stamford, PhD, Vice President of Chemistry at Deerfield Discovery and Development at Deerfield Management, says he didn’t fully appreciate...
Novel newborn screening system uses rapid whole genome sequencing and acute management guidance to screen and diagnosis genetic diseases
San Diego—August 24, 2022— Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine (RCIGM®) today announced the publication of a peer-reviewed study in the...
Sahelanthropus, the oldest representative of humanity, was indeed bipedal…but that’s not all!
The acquisition of bipedalism is considered to be a decisive step in human evolution. Nevertheless, there is no consensus on...
Study points to new approach to clearing toxic waste from brain
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found a new druggable pathway that potentially could be...
A new concept for low-cost batteries
As the world builds out ever larger installations of wind and solar power systems, the need is growing fast for...
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