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Socioeconomic status and power outages
Communities with more socioeconomic vulnerability experience longer-duration power outages than more advantaged communities, according to a study. Research has shown...
New biobanking partnership safeguards the genetic diversity of America’s endangered species
San Francisco, CA - The nonprofit Revive & Restore announces a groundbreaking new initiative to biobank U.S. endangered species, in...
How floods kill, long after the water has gone – global decade-long study
With New York declared a state of emergency following flash flooding, there is increasing concern such events will become more...
Study uncovers reasons Americans did not get booster vaccines
The paper, “Understanding low bivalent COVID-19 booster uptake among US adults,” was published in the journal Vaccine.Credit: UArizona Health Sciences...
Gut bacteria found in wild wolves may be key to improving domestic dogs’ health
BEND, Ore. – Gut microbes found in wild wolves may be the key to alleviating a debilitating gastrointestinal condition common...
Genomic analysis reveals ancient cancer lineages in clams
Credit: Pacific Northwest Research Institute Journal Nature Cancer DOI 10.1038/s43018-023-00643-7 Method of Research Experimental study Subject of Research Animals Article...
Study reveals high accuracy of MR-guided radiotherapy for intracranial itereotactic radiosurgery
A new study, led by radiation oncology physicists at Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, displayed positive...
Gene expression signatures of human senescent corneal and conjunctival epithelial cells
“ our results from the RNA-Seq experiments show that senescent ocular surface cells, particularly SCj, have abnormal keratin expression patterns...
How new plant cell walls change their mechanical properties after cell division
Scientists reveal new plant cell walls can have significantly different mechanical properties compared to surrounding parental cell walls, enabling cells...
£300,000 award for Quinas Technology to commercialize revolutionary universal computer memory ULTRARAM™
Lancaster University spinout company Quinas Technology Ltd. has been awarded £300,000 from Innovate UK to commercialise the universal computer memory...
Data-driven regional ocean models essential for planning
By incorporating fine-grained regional data with a high-resolution ocean model, KAUST researchers have developed the first precise historical reconstruction of...
Study on mysterious Amazon porcupine can help its protection
Porcupines of the genus Coendou are arboreal, herbivorous, nocturnal rodents distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. Most...
Water makes all the difference
In order to fulfil their function, biological cells need to be divided into separate reaction compartments. This is sometimes done...
A hygiene program for chromosomes
Even the remarkably familiar can sometimes yield new discoveries: researchers at ETH Zurich recently identified a previously unknown compartment in...
Ancient architecture inspires a window to the future
A centuries-old technique for constructing arched stone windows has inspired a new way to form tailored nanoscale windows in porous...
Overlooked parts of proteins revealed as critical to fundamental functions of life
According to textbooks, proteins work by folding into stable 3D shapes that, like Lego blocks, precisely fit with other biomolecules.Credit:...
2023 Farinella Prize awarded to Federica Spoto and Diego Turrini
Dr Federica Spoto, of the Minor Planet Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and Dr Diego Turrini, of the National Institute...
Plant chloroplasts promise potential therapy for Huntington’s disease
Researchers at the University of Cologne’s CECAD Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research and the CEPLAS Cluster of Excellence for...
CfA-SwRI heliophysics mission selected for Phase A mission definition study
SAN ANTONIO — October 2, 2023 — NASA has selected a new SwRI-managed heliophysics mission focused on investigating the Sun’s...
Nerve cells can detect small numbers of things better than large numbers of things
When two, three or four apples are placed in front of us, we are able to recognize the number of...
