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Largest U.S. study of e-cigarettes shows their value as smoking cessation aid
E-cigarettes do have value as a smoking cessation aid, according to a new study just released by a team of...
Severe COVID-19 may lead to long-term innate immune system changes
WHAT: Severe COVID-19 may cause long-lasting alterations to the innate immune system, the first line of defense against pathogens, according...
A new “spin” on ergodicity breaking
In a recent Science paper, researchers led by JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye, along with collaborators JILA and NIST Fellow David...
UH leading multi-institutional program to provide research opportunities to postbaccalaureates
With the juggling act of maintaining grades while also keeping a job, undergraduate students pursuing STEM degrees often graduate without...
Acoustic emission monitoring technique, an essential way to analyze pulsed laser processing
Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring is used to reveal the interaction mechanisms in pulsed laser processing of float glass. Circular ablated...
Wellcome Sanger Institute: Multiple organ functions of yolk sac revealed by early human development map
Credit: Megumi Inoue, DOI: 10.1126/science.add7564 The role of the human yolk sac in supporting early embryonic development and the first...
Increasing legumes and reducing red meat is safe for bone health and protein intake
A study conducted at the University of Helsinki demonstrated that the partial substitution of red and processed meat with pea-...
Nature-inspired pressure sensing technology that aims to transform healthcare and surgical robots
Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a novel aero-elastic pressure sensor, called ‘eAir’. This technology can...
Climatic changes put the brakes on spider romance
Being wary of taking gifts from males takes on a new meaning among a South American spider species known to...
Auburn University hosts the 60th edition of the Renowned Computational Biophysics Workshop
AUBURN, AL – In July, as many enjoyed the hot weather at Alabama's gulf coast beaches, in the Leach Science...
Japanese squirrels develop human hereditary diseases with aging
A research group led by Dr. Tomoaki Murakami from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has revealed that fibrinogen...
UArizona College of Nursing receives $2.6M HRSA grant to support Doctor of Nursing Practice students’ clinical placements
The University of Arizona College of Nursing was one of 50 institutions nationwide to receive a Health Resources and Services Administration grant...
Demon Hunting: Physicists confirm 67-year-old prediction of massless, neutral composite particle
In 1956, theoretical physicist David Pines predicted that electrons in a solid can do something strange. While they normally have...
Study observes sudden acceleration of flow, generates new boundary layer
In an experiment on how turbulent boundary layers respond to acceleration in the flow around them, aerospace engineers at the...
Racial and ethnic differences in gut microbiome emerge at 3 months old
Gut microbiome variation associated with race and ethnicity arises after three months of age and persists through childhood, according to...
Old brains, new tricks: Surprising plasticity in adult vision
Why Adult Plasticity MattersCredit: Hedi Young Why Adult Plasticity Matters Much like young children who swiftly acquire languages in their...
We finally know why quantum ‘strange metals’ are so strange
For nearly 40 years, materials called ‘strange metals’ have flummoxed quantum physicists, defying explanation by operating outside the normal rules...
The scale of emissions inequality in U.S. society
Researchers have linked US household income data to greenhouse gas emissions generated in creating that income, and found that 40%...
LRT, REM, mass transit projects and their fuzzy reality
The city of Gatineau is planning a tramway network that will link up with Ottawa, where the Light Rail Transit...
New study offers information on bone regeneration and osteoporosis in the light of evolution
A new study of the PhyloBone project of the University of Turku, Finland, identifies hundreds of non-collagenous proteins in the...
