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Medical imaging dimensionality mismatch
Researchers investigated observer performance for 2D and 3D image localization tasks; they found that when observers scrolled through a 3D...
Study shows DHA supplement may offset impact of maternal stress on unborn males
Researchers also discovered one reason why maternal stress affects unborn males more than femalesCredit: Justin Kelley Neurodevelopmental disorders like autism...
How grasslands respond to climate change
Effects of CO2 increase were already apparent in the past centuryCredit: Rothamsted Research "Based on field experiments with increased carbon...
New neuropharmacological approach
Credit: Rudolf Virchow Center Dysfunctional nerve cell proteins are thought to underlie a large number of mental disorders. The involved...
Tiny currents may impact vital ocean food source
Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Copepods are tiny crustaceans about the size of a grain of rice, but they...
Psychological forest: What trees reveal about Antarctic researchers
Credit: NIPR At the bottom of the world, there's a small island about four kilometers off the coast of Antarctica....
Searching for hints of new physics in the subatomic world
Particle physicists use lattice quantum chromodynamics and supercomputers to search for physics beyond the Standard ModelCredit: A. Bazavov (Michigan State...
Automatic trail cameras keep wildlife research going during pandemic
Researchers share how trail cameras enabled science to continue even without fieldworkCredit: Austin Green/University of Utah For scientists, especially graduate...
Positive self-image and self-esteem protects against weight gain in adolescence
Credit: Eivind Meland A new study from the University of Bergen (UiB) shows that the way young people view their...
Beware of fellow bacteria bearing gifts: Skoltech research presents new potential antimicrobial agen
Credit: Pavel Odinev/Skoltech Skoltech researchers examined the antibiotic compounds that employ a 'Trojan horse' strategy to get into a bacterial...
Giant fossil’s ‘bird-brain’
Scientists find whopping head was crammed for spaceCredit: Flinders University The largest flightless bird ever to live weighed in up...
Children exposed to tobacco smoke use more emergent health services
UC study: Childhood illness from tobacco smoke exposure drives up health care visits and costsCredit: University of Cincinnati Tobacco smoke-exposed...
RUDN University chemists found a way to increase the efficiency of metathesis reactions
Credit: RUDN University Chemists from RUDN University found out that fluorine and fluoroalkyl groups increase the efficiency of catalysts in...
First 3D images of a giant molecule
Credit: Jyotishman Veepaschit / Team Fischer SMN or in full Survival Motor Neuron: Professor Utz Fischer has been analyzing this...
During the first wave of coronavirus pandemic older adults left home mainly for physical activity
Older adults drastically reduced their out-of-home activitiesCredit: Photo: University of Jyväskylä In spring 2020, when the first wave of the...
Agile production: More than 14 million euros for battery research
KIT coordinates AgiloBat2: Novel production system for battery cells - flexible in terms of format, material, and quantity- BMBF funds...
Gene that affects iron metabolism linked to improved performance in athletes
Credit: Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto A genetic variation that regulates iron metabolism may enhance athletes' endurance performance, researchers at...
World’s most sensitive radio telescope concludes 15-month listening session, accepting international proposals
Credit: Image by NAO Nestled in the mountainous landscape of Guizhou in southwest China, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope...
Lighting up bone repair
Credit: Department of Inorganic Biomaterials,TMDU Researchers led by TMDU fabricate a material that will aid bone healing, help medical practitioners...
Astronomers image magnetic fields at the edge of M87’s black hole
Credit: EHT Collaboration The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has...