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UTA engineer aims to reduce natural disaster damage to transportation infrastructure
UTA gauges resilience of highways, bridges during natural disastersCredit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington civil engineering assistant...
New molecular driver of frontal circuit maturation discovered
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Mount Sinai Researchers find a new way to prevent attention deficits associated with Fragile X,...
Leading migraine researcher supported by the NIH wins The Brain Prize 2021
Credit: Courtesy of the Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark. WHAT: The Brain Prize has been awarded to Michael A. Moskowitz, M.D., a...
Three-layered masks most effective against large respiratory droplets
Credit: Basu et al, 2021 If you are going to buy a face mask to protect yourself and others from...
Study shows cactus pear as drought-tolerant crop for sustainable fuel and food
Cactus crops remove carbon from the atmosphere, provide biofuel, food and livestock feedCredit: Photo by John Cushman, University of Nevada,...
How does your brain process emotions? Answer could help address loneliness epidemic
Study finds specific brain regions respond opposingly to emotions related to loneliness and wisdomCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Research...
Canadian scientists and Swiss surgeons discover the cause of excess post-surgical scarring
The finding could improve recovery from abdominal and pelvic surgeryCredit: Supplied by Kubes' Lab, Snyder Institute for Chronic Disease, Cumming...
IU researchers discover new potential for functional recovery after spinal cord injury
Credit: IU School of Medicine Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have successfully reprogrammed a glial cell type in...
Christopher Tunnell wins NSF CAREER Award
Grant will support combined physics and computer science effort to find dark matterCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (March 5,...
nTIDE February 2021 Jobs Report: Modest job gains provide hope for economic recovery
National Trends in Disability Employment (nTIDE) - issued semi-monthly by Kessler Foundation and the University of New HampshireCredit: Kessler Foundation...
The gut mycobiome influences the metabolism of processed foods
New research in mice points to a significant role for fungi to shape metabolism, including fat deposition, and metabolic hormones.Credit:...
African American breast cancer survivor cardiovascular disease risk high but knowledge low
New research led by George Mason University's College of Health and Human Services faculty Dr. Michelle Williams found that although...
Tantalizing signs of phase-change ‘turbulence’ in RHIC collisions
Fluctuations in net proton production hint at a possible 'critical point' marking a change in the way nuclear matter transforms...
Huntington’s disease driven by slowed protein-building machinery in cells
New study shows that mutant huntingtin protein slows ribosomesCredit: Image by Nicolai Urban of Max Planck Institute for Neuroscience in...
Species are our livelihoods
Biodiversity doesn't feature enough in large-scale assessments of ecosystem servicesCredit: Theresa Hickfang Functioning ecosystems provide the basis for security, basic...
What can stream quality tell us about quality of life?
Credit: Virginia Tech As the source of most of the water we drink and a place where we often go...
Making sense of commotion under the ocean to locate tremors near deep-sea faults
New method for more accurately estimating the location of tectonic tremors in deep ocean faults could help to better understand...
Species traded legally through Hong Kong with inadequate traceability
Leading to unnoticed over-exploitation of common speciesCredit: The University of Hong Kong Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate, due...
Switzerland’s energy transition
Credit: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic Can Switzerland, as planned, cut its CO2 emissions to zero by 2050? In a study,...
Monoclonal antibody “cocktail” blocks COVID-19 variants: Study
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center A monoclonal antibody "cocktail" developed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to neutralize the COVID-19...
