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Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda is warmer and more acidic than ever, 40 years of observation show
Decade-long ocean warming which impacts ocean circulation, a decrease in oxygen levels that contributes to changes in salinification and nutrient...
Battle of the AIs in medical research: ChatGPT vs Elicit
Can AI save us from the arduous and time-consuming task of academic research collection? An international team of researchers investigated...
UTA to train interdisciplinary researchers in mathematics for human health
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded The University of Texas at Arlington a $1.1 million grant to train and...
Virtual reality simulations can help autistic people complete real-world tasks, MU study finds
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Many people associate virtual reality headsets with interactive video games, but a researcher at the University of...
Discrimination during pregnancy may alter circuits in infants’ brains
Racial discrimination and bias are painful realities and increasingly recognized as detrimental to the health of adults and children.Credit: Columbia...
JMIR Mental Health call for papers theme issue on Affective Computing for Mental Well-Being
JMIR Mental Health, a premier SCIE/PubMed/Scopus-indexed, peer-reviewed journal with a unique focus on digital mental health, is inviting submissions to...
The evolutionary paradox behind the unusual mating strategy of the ruff
In the colorful world of avian courtship, the ruff (Calidris pugnax) is in a league of its own. Breeding in...
Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology launched by Allen Institute, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the University of Washington will turn cells into recording devices to unlock secrets of disease
The Allen Institute, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), and the University of Washington (UW) today announced the launch of the...
Physicists ‘entangle’ individual molecules for the first time, hastening possibilities for quantum information processing
For the first time, a team of Princeton physicists have been able to link together individual molecules into special states...
Princeton Chemistry develops catalyst for electronically controlled C–H functionalization
The Chirik Group at the Princeton Department of Chemistry is chipping away at one of the great challenges of metal-catalyzed C–H...
Grunt or whistle: successful honey-hunters know how to communicate with wild honey-seeking birds
In many parts of Africa, humans cooperate with a species of wax-eating bird called the greater honeyguide, Indicator indicator, which...
It turns out, this fossil plant is really a fossil baby turtle
From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town...
Magnetization by laser pulse
To magnetize an iron nail, one simply has to stroke its surface several times with a bar magnet. Yet, there...
Protected areas in Thailand are at a higher risk of forest fires when located away from indigenous communities, research finds
Research from the University of Warwick has found that national parks and protected areas are at a higher risk of...
2024 SPIE-Franz Hillenkamp Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to Simon Mahler
BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced Simon Mahler, who received his PhD in nonlinear...
Accelerating drug development for lung diseases: New insights from single-cell genomics
To mechanistically understand the root causes of lung disease, and identify drugs that target specific pathways, the scientists around Prof....
Team reviews phosphine ligand-induced structural transformation of metal nanoclusters
A team of researchers has reviewed a unique method for reforming the structures of ultra-small nanomaterials. These nanomaterials, called metal...
Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era
Diverse and full of sea life, the Earth’s Devonian era — taking place more than 370 million years ago —...
Specific genetic variant may help prevent obesity
A preclinical study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators shows that a specific human genetic variant of a receptor that stimulates...
Understanding the formation of minute droplets in microfluidic devices
Emulsions are mixtures of two insoluble liquids, in which one of the liquids exists as a dispersion of small droplets...
