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Researchers uncover what makes some chickens more water efficient than others
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — In the first scientific report of its kind, researchers in Arkansas showed that chickens bred for water...
Study tallies heatwave deaths over recent decades
Between 1990 and 2019, more than 150,000 deaths around the globe were associated with heatwaves each year, according to a...
Brookhaven Lab Biophysicist F. William Studier awarded Merkin prize in biomedical technology
Editor’s note: The following news release is adapted from one originally published by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, which administers...
MIT researchers discover the universe’s oldest stars in our own galactic backyard
MIT researchers, including several undergraduate students, have discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they happen to...
Newly identified PET biomarker predicts success of immune checkpoint blockade therapy
Reston, VA—The protein galectin-1 (Gal-1) has been identified as a new PET imaging biomarker for immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy,...
Lessons in chemistry: Guo aims at fundamental understanding of emerging semiconductor material
Metal halide perovskites have emerged in recent years as a low-cost, highly efficient semiconducting material for solar energy, solid-state lighting...
How to ensure biodiversity data are FAIR, linked, open and future-proof? Policy makers and research funders receive expert recommendations from the BiCIKL project
Within the Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) project, 14 European institutions from ten countries, spent the last three years...
Discovery of the first ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs
Who were the earliest ancestors of scorpions, spiders and horseshoe crabs? A PhD student from the University of Lausanne (Switzerland),...
Bitter makes the stomach acidic, but how?
In the stomach, so-called parietal cells are responsible for acid production. They react not only to the body's own messenger...
Distinct population of ‘troublemaker’ platelet cells appear with aging, lead to blood clotting, disease
As people age, they become more prone to blood clotting diseases, when blood cells called platelets clump together when they...
Courtship through flute song in Indigenous Southern Plains culture #ASA186
OTTAWA, Ontario, May 14, 2024 – Every love story is unique, and in traditional Indigenous Southern Plains culture, it begins...
SwRI investigating unusual substorm in Earth’s magnetotail using MMS data
SAN ANTONIO — May 14, 2024 —Southwest Research Institute is investigating an unusual event in the Earth’s magnetotail, the elongated...
Mislabelled shark meat rampant in Australian markets, study finds
Researchers at Macquarie University have found a significant portion of shark meat sold in Australian fish markets and takeaway shops...
90% of Floridians believe climate change is happening
The latest edition of Florida Atlantic University’s “Florida Climate Resilience Survey,” found that 90% of Floridians believe that climate change...
Using artificial intelligence to speed up and improve the most computationally-intensive aspects of plasma physics in fusion
The intricate dance of atoms fusing and releasing energy has fascinated scientists for decades. Now, human ingenuity and artificial intelligence...
A bionanomachine for green chemistry
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time precisely characterised the enzyme styrene oxide isomerase, which...
New transit station in Japan significantly reduced cumulative health expenditures
The declining population in Osaka is related to an aging society that is driving up health expenditures. Dr. Haruka Kato,...
Metalens expands Its reach from light to sound
Junsuk Rho from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Chemical Engineering, and the Department of Electrical Engineering, Dr....
Mount Sinai study identifies genetic link between inflammatory bowel disease and Parkinson’s disease
— Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have made a significant discovery, identifying genetic connections between...
Derivatives of the thalidomide compound drive resistant cancer cells to their deaths
FRANKFURT. Hardly any other molecule has a more turbulent past than thalidomide. It was the central ingredient in a drug...
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