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Republicans became more vaccine hesitant as the coronavirus pandemic unfolded
New UC San Diego study shows willingness to get a vaccine became increasingly politicized during the public health crisisCredit: UC...
More than 25% of infants not getting common childhood vaccinations, study finds
Researchers identify troubling disparities along race, income, education linesCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications More than a quarter of American...
Simple device improves care after kidney transplantation
Clinical trial shows shortened hospital stay for patients and reduced surgical site infections by almost 60%Credit: Lawson Health Research Institute...
Unlocking herbaria biodiversity using a QR code sampling-to-sequencing workflow
Credit: California Academy of Sciences Within the past decade, next-generation sequencing technologies have revolutionized the way in which genetic data...
City of Hope opens Phase 2 trial to test if mushroom tablets could slow prostate cancer
Scientists investigate if City of Hope's natural supplement derived from white button mushroom could lower prostate-specific antigen levels, an indicator...
Wasps are valuable for ecosystems, economy and human health (just like bees)
Credit: Professor Seirian Sumner, UCL Wasps deserve to be just as highly valued as other insects, like bees, due to...
Social media and science show how ship’s plastic cargo dispersed from Florida to Norway
Credit: Tracey Williams, Lost at Sea Project A ship's container lost overboard in the North Atlantic has resulted in printer...
Touched by light: Photoexcited stannyl anions are great for producing organotin compounds
Credit: Yuki Nagashima Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology developed a new strategy for producing a wide range of organotin...
CCNY team makes single photon switch advance
Credit: Image credit: Rezlind Bushati The ability to turn on and off a physical process with just one photon is...
Researchers investigate structural changes in snap-frozen proteins
A novel method allows visualization of molecular motions lasting a few millionths of a secondCredit: (c) Tobias Hett / Universität...
Designing new alloys for additive manufacturing
Wei Xiong receives $526K NSF CAREER Award for work on additive manufacturing of complex concentrated alloysCredit: University of Pittsburgh Additive...
UC San Diego engineering professor solves deep earthquake mystery
A University of California San Diego engineering professor has solved one of the biggest mysteries in geophysics: What causes deep-focus...
Research on Lake Victoria cichlids uncovers the processes of rapid species adaptation
Credit: Tokyo Tech Biologists use the term adaptive radiation to describe a phenomenon in which new species rapidly evolve from...
IPK scientists identify networks for spikelet formation in barley
Credit: IPK / Eva Siebenhühner Organ development in plants mostly occurs through combinatorial activity of so-called meristems. Meristems are plant...
El Niño can help predict cacao harvests up to 2 years in advance
Long-term weather data is absent in many places, complicating rain predictions for crops. Researchers found that the El Niño climate...
Scientists from Virginia Tech, City of Hope aim to improve therapy for deadly brain cancer
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded the team, including Jennifer Munson, associate professor at the Fralin Biomedical Institute...
Legendary licenses
Sandia tech transfer expert garners national awardCredit: Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Licensing expert Bob Westervelt,...
Study finds green spaces linked to lower racial disparity in COVID infection rates
A new study is the first to examine the relationship between the supply of green spaces and reduced disparity in...
Protein linked to sex differences in age-related dopamine neuron loss
Credit: Zachary Freyberg PITTSBURGH, April 28, 2021 - It is not every day that scientists come across a phenomenon so...
Reducing blue light with a new type of LED that won’t keep you up all night
Credit: Jakoah Brgoch To be more energy efficient, many people have replaced their incandescent lights with light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs....
