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September 20, 2025

Artificial intelligence makes enzyme engineering easy

Osaka, Japan – You can't expect a pharmaceutical scientist to switch labs to the facilities available in a television studio...

Professor Hankwon Lim and his research team (School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST)

Demonstration of feasible waste plastic pyrolysis through decentralized biomass heating business model

Thermal pyrolysis of plastics has drawn considerable attention as a reliable and emerging technology for resource recycling since it can...

Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do

Good news for those who struggle to fit a gym workout into their day: you may be able to cut...

How magnetism could help explain Earth’s formation

There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary...

Alexandra Zhernakova and Igor Alabugin receive RASA’s Gamow Award

G.A. Gamow award, established by the Russian-American Association of Scientists (RASA-America, Russian-American Science Association) in memory of the outstanding Russian-American...

Multiple routes of muscle-to-CNS signaling

New insights into how exercise protects against neurodegenerative diseases

Amsterdam, November 2, 2022 – Accumulating evidence finds that exercise can improve brain function and delay or prevent the onset...

Grant will support innovative gene therapy research into treatment for fatal neurodegenerative diseases

Amanda Woerman, assistant professor of biology, has received a grant from the Tau Consortium of the Rainwater Charitable Foundation to accelerate her research that...

Obesity drug helps teens lose weight, study finds

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2, 2022 — A drug called semaglutide, which is approved for adults with obesity or overweight, also helps...

Color-enhanced goblet cells (dark purple) in lung epithelium

A common dietary fiber promotes allergy-like immune responses in preclinical studies

A type of dietary fiber called inulin, commonly used in health supplements and known to have certain anti-inflammatory properties, can...

Preclinical model of intestinal parasitic infection.

Study offers insight into immune mechanisms of inflammatory disease

Innate lymphoid cells are a recently discovered family of white blood cells that reside in the skin, gastrointestinal tract, airways...

The study found that neuroscientific evidence does not necessarily lead to mitigated or aggravated sentences, but rather that it interacts with society’s reasons for incarceration.

Neuroscientific evidence induces study participants to recommend longer sentences for convicted criminals if they think prison is for rehabilitation or public protection, but shorter sentences if prison is considered punishment

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276237Credit: Emiliano Bar, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276237 Article Title: The effect of neuroscientific evidence on sentencing...

Participants in the volunteer group were asked to indicate their top three motivations for participating in a COVID-19 challenge trial from a list of ten options.

Volunteers in COVID-19 human challenge trials are genuinely altruistic, not desperate for money or lacking understanding of the risks

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275823Credit: Marsh et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0275823 Article Title: Characterizing altruistic motivation...

Striactaeonina transatlantica, a representative of the Heterobranchia from the Early Jurassic of South America, ca. 190 million years before present.

Researchers analyze why certain snail species survived the end-Triassic mass extinction as over half of other gastropod species were wiped out

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276329Credit: Mariel Ferrari, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276329 Article Title: Gastropods underwent a major taxonomic turnover during...

The study found that both short-term and chronic pain at age 44 were associated with pain and poor health in later decades of life.

Chronic pain associated with poor health – and COVID-19 infection – decades later

People who suffer from chronic pain at age 44 are more like to report pain, poor general health, poor mental...

Plant hormones to help prevent Striga invasion

As part of a multipronged approach to prevent infestations by the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica, researchers are unravelling the role of...

Screenshot of the Global Jukebox, map view.

“Global Jukebox” performing arts database now publicly available

Extensive data behind the Global Jukebox (http://theglobaljukebox.org) —an online tool for exploring recordings of music and other performing arts from around the...

Do you speak extra-terrestrial?

What does humanity do when we discover we are not alone in the cosmos? A new international research hub at...

Research team discovers central functions of innate immune cells

Inflammation and increased mucus production are typical symptoms of worm infections and allergies. This immune response involves our innate immune...

Engaging infants with a song provides a readymade means for supporting social development and interaction

Sensitivity to musical rhythm supports social development in infants

Engaging infants with a song provides a readymade means for supporting social development and interaction, according to a study published...

A new look at brain function and psychiatric disorders