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August 28, 2025

New telescope at ESO’s La Silla joins effort to protect Earth from risky asteroids

Credit: I. Saviane/ESO Part of the world-wide effort to scan and identify near-Earth objects, the European Space Agency's Test-Bed Telescope...

Value from sewage? New technology makes pig farming more environmentally friendly

Credit: Okinawa Prefecture Livestock and Grassland Research Center. Anyone who lives in Okinawa, a subtropical island in Japan, has an...

Neural implant monitors multiple brain areas at once, provides new neuroscience insights

Credit: Nature Neuroscience How do different parts of the brain communicate with each other during learning and memory formation? A...

Cholestenone shows antibiotic properties against H. pylori

ATS/Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals research grant in sarcoidosis awarded

Northwestern University researcher is recipient of $50,000 grantCredit: ATS (New York, NY) - April 27, 2021 - Deborah Winter, PhD...

Study first to explore combined impacts of fishing and ocean warming on fish populations

Warming and fishing affecting survival of small fishCredit: Harrison Haines The combined effect of rapid ocean warming and the practice...

Following nature’s cue, researchers build successful, sustainable industrial networks

Structural characteristic of food webs provide guidelines for setting up industrial networksCredit: Texas A&M University College of Engineering By translating...

How does a nose evolve into a blowhole? Study suggests there’s more than one way

Toothed and baleen whales show different patterns of blowhole developmentCredit: Rachel Roston. The two major types of cetaceans appear to...

Material scientists find new angle toward better heat transfer

UCLA Researchers developed a new class of optical material that can beam thermal radiation to specific directions over a broad...

Could corals use sound to communicate?

New evidence suggests corals may have genes involved in receiving or emitting soundCredit: Camila Rimoldi Ibanez and James Hawker, South...

Compound found in some vegetables may reduce diabetes-related kidney damage

Phenethyl isothiocyanate, derived from watercress and other cruciferous vegetables, shows benefits in ratsCredit: Image courtesy of Mohamed El-Sherbiny, AlMaarefa University....

Extinct ‘horned’ crocodile gets new spot in the tree of life

New ancient DNA-based study on Madagascar crocodile suggests that modern crocodiles likely originated in AfricaCredit: M. Ellison/©AMNH A study led...

SARS-CoV-2 curtails immune response in the gut

Scientists transform human intestinal cells into 'mini guts' to follow infection processCredit: Mohammed Shahraz, Sergio Triana/EMBL; Camila Metz-Zumaran/Heidelberg University In...

Dietary amino acid determines the fate of cancer cells

Credit: RIKEN A research group at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) has discovered molecular events that determine...

Pandemic significantly increases insomnia in health care workers

Credit: Augusta University The COVID pandemic appears to have triggered about a 44% increase in insomnia disorder among health care...

Studies connect hormone to breast cancer and uncover potential for novel targeted drugs

Credit: VCU Massey Cancer Center The hormone prolactin has long been understood to play a vital role in breast growth...

New rapid COVID-19 test the result of university-industry partnership

Innovative platform pairs mass spectrometry with machine learningCredit: UC Davis Health A partnership between UC Davis and Maurice J. Gallagher,...

University of Pittsburgh’s Anna C. Balazs elected to National Academy of Sciences

Credit: Aimee Obidzinski PITTSBURGH (April 26, 2021) ... Anna C. Balazs, an award-winning University of Pittsburgh Distinguished Professor in the...

Energy-saving gas turbines from the 3D printer

Neutrons 'see' internal stress in components made by additive manufacturingCredit: Dr. Tobias Fritsch / BAM 3D printing has opened up...

Skin and bones repaired by bioprinting during surgery