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October 19, 2025

The perfect fit: A ‘shoe-in’ for a great start to school

Credit: UniSA As the back-to-school rush begins, podiatry experts at the University of South Australia are encouraging parents to get...

Brain-on-a-chip would need little training

Asymmetric synthesis of aziridine with a new catalyst can help develop novel medicines

Scientists demonstrate aziridine preparation with high enantiopurity using oxazolones in presence of newly developed catalystsCredit: Image courtesy: Shuichi Nakamura from...

City, University of London joins forces with Engineers Without Borders UK

The strategic university partnership is aimed at embedding global and social responsibility into education and student experience.Credit: EWB UK City,...

Growth in home health care failing to keep up with surging demand, study finds

Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Recent growth in the number of healthcare workers providing home care for Medicare patients...

Atomic-level insights gained for a key lipid-binding protein implicated in cancer

Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys LA JOLLA, CALIF. - April 20, 2021 Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified, at an...

Clinical trial assesses stem cells’ ability to prevent major cause of preemie deaths

Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC - A phase 2 clinical trial whose results were released today in STEM CELLS Translational...

Predicting the onset of diseases

Scientists have created a statistical model that helps them predict when diseases like high blood pressure, heart diseases and type...

Can extreme melt destabilize ice sheets?

Credit: Farrin Abbott Nearly a decade ago, global news outlets reported vast ice melt in the Arctic as sapphire lakes...

Designing healthy diets – with computer analysis

Credit: Creative Commons A new mathematical model for the interaction of bacteria in the gut could help design new probiotics...

Understanding spoilage and quality issues may improve American artisan cheesemaking industry

Top concerns of artisan cheesemakers are examined in new research in the Journal of Dairy Science®Credit: Refer to caption Philadelphia,...

Federal policy to reduce deaths from sepsis was mostly ineffective

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, April 19, 2021 - The first large-scale, multi-hospital evaluation of an "all or none" federal policy intended...

Surprising ionic and flow behaviors with functionalized nanochannels

UMD engineering research team demonstrates overscreening, flow reversal in nanosystemsCredit: T. H. Pial et al., ACS Nano, 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c09248...

Learning about system stability from ants

Credit: James Herndon A new type of collective behaviour in ants has been revealed by an international team of scientists,...

Stanford researchers use AI to empower environmental regulators

Credit: Nina Brooks Like superheroes capable of seeing through obstacles, environmental regulators may soon wield the power of all-seeing eyes...

New AI tool tracks evolution of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media

Algorithm developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers could help public health officials combat misinformationCredit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS...

Light up your mind: A novel light-based treatment for neurodegenerative diseases

Researchers review growing knowledge on the methods and applications of light therapy in treating neurodegenerative diseasesCredit: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay...

Shedding light on the long and the short of plant growth

Credit: John Innes Centre What keeps some plants squatting close to the soil while others - even those closely related...

Archaeological data demand new approaches to biodiversity conservation

Credit: Erle Ellis Professor Nicole Boivin, Director of the Department of Archaeology at the Max Planck Institute for the Science...

Pandemic led to profound changes in multiple sclerosis clinical practice