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Narwal tusks reveal mercury exposure related to climate change
Like rings in a tree trunk, a narwal's tusk provides a window into changing conditions in the ArcticCredit: Paul Nicklen...
John D. Carpten elected fellow of AACR Academy
American Association for Cancer Research honors distinguished USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center scientistCredit: Keck School of Medicine of USC John...
Akane Sano wins NSF CAREER Award
Engineer developing software to predict emotional stress from wearable and Internet of Things techCredit: Rice University HOUSTON - (March 29,...
Pioneering pollinator study offers clues to Darwin’s ‘abominable mystery’
Credit: Byers and Bradshaw, 2021 Research into the flower preferences of pollinating moths may have delivered a vital clue to...
NIST develops privacy-preserving ‘encounter metrics’ that could slow down future pandemics
Credit: B. Hayes/NIST When you bump into someone in the workplace or at your local coffee shop, you might call...
Differences in herpes virus symptoms may relate to variations in strain gene expression
Credit: Colleen Mangold, Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Why do some people with cold sores around their lips experience...
New model simulates the temperature rise of laser-heated skin
Researchers in Japan propose a new way of understanding temperature rise of laser-heated skinCredit: Shibaura Institute of Technology Laser treatment...
Scientists urge swift action to prepare for next pandemic
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications An international team of researchers led by a University of Virginia School of Medicine...
Scientists find explanation for abnormally fast release of gas from nuclear fuel
Credit: MIPT Scientists at MIPT have found a possible explanation for the anomalously fast release of gas from nuclear fuel....
New study finds satellites contribute significant light pollution to night skies
Credit: Andreas Möller Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are brightening...
Plants remember drought
Credit: (Picture: Rainer Hedrich / University of Wuerzburg) "I've been studying how plants regulate their water balance for over 35...
Stellar eggs near galactic center hatching into baby stars
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Lu et al. Astronomers found a number of stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of...
Standing out: Unusual magnetic transition in perovskite oxide can help boost spintronics
Credit: Nature Communications Transition metal perovskites oxides exhibit several desirable properties, including high-temperature superconductivity and electrocatalysis. Now, scientists at Tokyo...
String theory solves mystery about how particles behave outside a black hole photon sphere
Credit: EHT Collaboration; Kavli IPMU (Kavli IPMU modified EHT's original image)) A paper by the Kavli Institute for the Physics...
Electromagnetic fields of nanostructures visualized in 3D for the first time
Scientists from Graz, Austria, succeeded for the first time in visualizing temporal distortions of the atomic lattice on the surface...
Getting on top of rural Asia’s blood pressure
Low-cost hypertension management intervention shown to be cost-effective, scalable in rural South AsiaCredit: ICDDR, Bangladesh (Mr Nantu Chakma and Dr...
An industrially viable competitor to silicon-based solar cells is in the works
Researchers from Kanazawa University fabricated a highly efficient perovskite solar cell with nearly the energy conversion efficiency of commercial silicon-based...
Depression affects visual perception
Credit: Viljami Salmela Researchers specialised in psychiatry and psychology at the University of Helsinki investigated the effects of depression on...
Deciphering the secrets of printed electronics
We live in a world where we want our electronics to be flexible, bendable and stretchable apart from being intelligent....
Procedures identify Barrett’s esophagus patients at risk for cancer progression
Credit: Elizabeth Cook A combination of esophageal brushing and extensive genetic sequencing of the sample collected can detect chromosome alterations...
