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Earlier puberty onset may be one of the ways that childhood risk factors affect adult cardiometabolic health
Experiencing puberty earlier, compared to same-age peers, may be one of the mechanisms through which childhood risk factors influence adult...
SwRI leads airborne, ground-based 2024 eclipse observation projects
SAN ANTONIO — March 27, 2024 —Southwest Research Institute is leading two groundbreaking experiments — on the ground and in...
Rice biologists uncover new species of tiger beetle: Eunota houstoniana
Rice University evolutionary biologist Scott Egan and his research team have unearthed a new species of tiger beetle, deemed Eunota...
Milk on ice: Antarctic time capsule of whole milk powder sheds light on the enduring qualities—and evolution—of dairy products past and present
Philadelphia, March 27, 2024 – In a remarkable discovery, whole milk powder manufactured in New Zealand in 1907 and transported...
A new surgical technique enables smiling in patients with facial paralysis
A new study describes a novel surgical technique used to treat Moebius syndrome, a rare congenital condition leading to inability...
Liverpool to lead £125 million world-first diffraction and imaging electron microscopy facility
The University of Liverpool (UK) will lead a new £125 million national research facility to drive forward scientific discoveries and...
Making long-term memories requires nerve-cell damage
March 27, 2024—(BRONX, NY)—Just as you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
United Kingdom invests in DOE’s Electron-Ion Collider project to understand matter at the smallest scale
The following news release was issued today by the U.S. Department of Energy. Comments from DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and DOE’s Thomas...
Discovery has potential to solve the billion-dollar global cost of poorly managed wound healing
Lead researcher, Associate Professor Mikaël Martino, from Monash University’s Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI) in Melbourne, Australia, said the discovery...
‘Cosmic Cannibals’ expel jets into space at 40% speed of light
Credit: Credit: ESA. Aknowledgments: D. Futselaar and N. Degenaar, University of Amsterdam. Work performed by ATG Medialab under contract with...
The combination of the climate crisis and continued deforestation may result in significant damage to the animal world
A new study by Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the University of Colorado (CU) states that the combination of global...
Not unique to humans but uniquely human: researchers identify factor involved in brain expansion in humans
What makes us human? According to neurobiologists it is our neocortex. This outer layer of the brain is rich in...
Improving the safety of HED LIBs by co-coating separators with ceramics and solid-state electrolytes
They published their work on Mar. 20, 2024, in Energy Material Advances.Credit: Jiantao Wang, National Power Battery Innovation Center, China...
Hannover Messe: Micro-massaging – ‘Artificial muscles’ help fractured leg bones heal better
Orthopaedic implants are used to fixate the bone fragments of fractures. Novel smart implants are now being developed that can...
The ISSCR announces 2024 election results
Evanston, IL – The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is pleased to announce the results of its 2024...
Despite dwindling resources, many older adult Israelis exhibited impressive resilience during the initial period of the Israel-Hamas war, Bar-Ilan University study finds
Exposure to traumatic events can result in acute stress symptoms that can last for a few weeks and can also...
A new type of cooling for quantum simulators
Quantum experiments always have to deal with the same problem, regardless of whether they involve quantum computers, quantum teleportation or...
People with depression see no immediate change from common GP assessment, study shows
A commonly used questionnaire adopted by GPs to monitor the treatment of depression does not provide any immediate benefits to...
New image of the center of our Milky Way: Spiral magnetic fields surround black hole Sagittarius A*
FRANKFURT. In 2022, scientists of the EHT unveiled the first image of Sgr A* – which is approximately 27,000 light-years...
Highest power efficiency achieved in flexible solar cells using new fabrication technique
Flexible solar cells have many potential applications in aerospace and flexible electronics, but low energy conversion efficiency has limited their...
