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A robot learns to imagine itself
New York, NY—July 13, 2022—As every athletic or fashion-conscious person knows, our body image is not always accurate or realistic,...
Best FIFA Men’s Player Award appears to be biased by cultural similarity
A new analysis of voting data for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)’s World’s Best Male Football Player Award...
Corrupted proteins in focus: How shape gives rise to variations of fatal brain disease
CLEVELAND—Prion diseases are incurable, deadly neurological disorders that can affect both humans and animals–including Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in people, Bovine...
SIRI-2 to qualify technologies for radiation detection in space
WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists launched the second Strontium Iodide Radiation Instrument (SIRI-2) instrument in December 2021 onboard Space Test Program (STP) Sat-6. SIRI-2,...
Genomic research supports recognizing new scrub jay species in Texas and Mexico
LAWRENCE — A comprehensive new genetic and statistical study from researchers at the University of Kansas reveals two groups of scrub jays...
New stem cell mechanism in your gut
Your gut is a wondrous place. A special layer of cells that coats the insides of your small and large...
Tiny gene fragments revealed as crucial new players in retinal development and vision
Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona reveal that Srrm3 is a master regulator gene crucial for...
Social development of infants unaffected by COVID-19 pandemic
Health issues and loss, social isolation and mental health problems – the pandemic has had a drastic effect on our...
Widely-used kidney function tests underestimate scale of kidney disease in Africa
The findings suggest that methods developed in high-income settings to check kidney function are not accurate for many people in...
2022 RELX SDG Inspiration Day: Aspiring to make SDG-16 a reality
In 2015, the United Nations put forth 17 Sustainable Development Goals that aim to transform the world and envision a...
A world afire: Social–ecological processes in a time of change
In an era of ubiquitous human entanglement with the natural world, scientists are turning to social–ecological systems approaches as a...
Turning white blood cells into medicinal microrobots with light
Medicinal microrobots could help physicians better treat and prevent diseases. But most of these devices are made with synthetic materials...
Rats can learn to navigate by watching their friends, helping us learn more about our own ‘internal GPS’
Researchers are one step closer to understanding the ‘internal GPS’ of animals and humans, by investigating whether rats can learn...
Study examines pandemic’s impact on volunteer health care workers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Many medical professionals who volunteered for short-term deployment to a field hospital in New York during the...
Apgar scores discriminate the risk of infant mortality after birth less well in certain racial groups – including Black infants – than in White babies
In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Medicine: Credit: Solen...
Montana Bio Station researchers find nutrient imbalance in flathead lake
FLATHEAD LAKE – As any gardener or farmer can tell you, nitrogen and phosphorus are chemical elements found in soils...
Research links national-level greenhouse gas emissions, warming and resulting economic damage
A sound scientific basis exists for climate liability claims between individual countries, according to a Dartmouth study.Credit: Credit: Richard Clark/Dartmouth...
Protein folding in times of oxygen deficiency
Proteins often consist of hundreds or thousands of individual parts, the amino acids. These are connected like the links of...
Emotional patterns a factor in children’s food choices
Philadelphia, July 12, 2022 – The emotional context in which eating occurs has been thought to influence eating patterns and...
A proof of odd-parity superconductivity
Superconductivity is a fascinating state of matter in which an electrical current can flow without any resistance. Usually, it can...
