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September 20, 2025

The future of digital olfaction is today!

The 7th Annual Meeting of the Digital Olfaction Society (DOS) will take place on November 29-30 at Tokyo, Japan, and...

NTU scientists engineer way to make plants yield more oil

NTU Singapore scientists genetically engineer plants to yield more vegetable oil

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have successfully genetically modified a plant protein that is responsible for oil...

ABILITY implantable neural recording system

Latest neural signals recorded with ABILITY brain-computer interface and new details of the system presented at Society for Neuroscience meeting

STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 09:00 PST / NOON EST / 18:00 CET WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2022Credit: ©Wyss Center STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL...

Inqaba Biotec / African BioGenome Project Genome Challenge 2022

The African BioGenome Project has partnered with Inqaba Biotechnical Industries to organise the Inqaba Biotec / African BioGenome Project Genome Challenge...

Haining Zhong, Ph.D., and Tianyi Mao, Ph.D.

OHSU scientists identify molecule that could help treat Parkinson’s

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered that the neurotransmitter adenosine effectively acts as a brake to dopamine,...

Animation of modelled frontal positions 2007-2100

Ice loss from Northeastern Greenland significantly underestimated

Ice is continuously streaming off Greenland's melting glaciers at an accelerating rate, dramatically increasing global sea levels. New results published...

Depiction of the paths taken by the Plasmodium parasites in the liver.

Tracking malaria parasites in space and time

Malaria is a devastating disease caused by the Plasmodium parasite. After an infected mosquitos’ bite, the parasites travel to the liver and...

Graphical abstract depicting the study’s workflow

The X chromosome is silenced in some male cancers

Cancer cells acquire genetic anomalies that allow them to grow and proliferate unchecked. Researchers have now found another difference between...

Two valid and reliable tests for monitoring age-related memory performance and neophobia differences in dogs

Memory and novel object tests for monitoring the cognitive decline of old dogs

Understanding how active, healthy ageing can be achieved is one of the most relevant problems today. Dogs can be used...

The sunset glow reflected in the eastern clouds over Hanzhong, China. Clouds impact the land surface temperature at different scales, such as through local radiative forcing, large-scale atmospheric circulation, and water vapor, which means it can be “remembered” by Earth System.

Long-term memory in temperature series: the “forgetfulness” of state-of-the-art climate models in equatorial and coastal regions

General circulation models play an important role in researching and predicting climate change, and so assessing their performance as they...

Screening for stroke risk can save lives and money

Atrial fibrillation is the greatest risk factor for stroke. Screening to detect atrial fibrillation in older people would not only...

Fertilizers limit pollination by changing how bumblebees sense flowers

Pollinators are less likely to land on flowers sprayed with fertilisers or pesticides as they can detect electric field changes...

$80-year-old patient with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy. Ejection fraction was 25.2%. Patient underwent cardiac MRI.$

Myocardial strain parameters on MRI in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy

Leesburg, VA, November 9, 2022—According to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), left ventricular global...

The ivory comb (Credit: Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority).

First sentence ever written in Canaanite language discovered: Plea to eradicate beard lice

The alphabet was invented around 1800 BCE and was used by the Canaanites and later by most other languages in...

Targeting refractory prostate cancer: a novel radiopharmaceutical hits the bull’s-eye

Osaka, Japan - As the saying goes, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and...

Most detailed map of brain’s memory hub finds connectivity puzzle

The most detailed map ever made of the communication links between the hippocampus – the brain’s memory control centre –...

Key to the erroneous activation of the immune system

Bonn, November 8, 2022 - The innate immune system fights infectious agents. The alarm messenger interferon plays a central role...

Old bone links lost American parrot to ancient Indigenous bird trade

For centuries, Indigenous communities in the American Southwest imported colorful parrots from Mexico. But according to a study led by...

Study shows differences between brains of primates — humans, apes and monkeys — are small but significant

MADISON — While the physical differences between humans and non-human primates are quite distinct, a new study reveals their brains...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory receives new funding for free biomedical research platforms