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Study finds neighborhood apps increase perceptions of crime rates
How often do you glance at your neighborhood app, like Nextdoor or others, and learn about some crime in your...
Aging | Parsing chronological and biological age effects on vaccine responses
“Ultimately, while both chronological and biological age appear to be important determinants of vaccine-preventable outcomes in older adults, the underlying...
Novel Click chemistry technology for ultrafast analysis of intracellular lipids
Professor Itaru Hamachi, Lecturer Tomonori Tamura, and Assistant Professor Masaki Tsuchiya of Kyoto University have developed a new technology called...
Storing information with spins: Creating new structured spin states with spatially structured polarized light
Light is composed of electric and magnetic fields that oscillate perpendicular to each other. When these oscillations are restricted, say,...
In the tropics, woody vines make lightning more deadly for forests
Many tropical forests are experiencing increases in lightning and lianas, thanks in part to global change. This one-two punch is...
James Chappell wins NSF CAREER Award
HOUSTON – (March 27, 2023) – Rice University bioscientist and synthetic biologist James Chappell has won a National Science Foundation...
Chicago pollution varies by neighborhood
EVANSTON, Ill. — If you live along one of the major interstate highways running through Chicago or directly next to Lake...
Beaver fossil named after Buc-ee’s
A new species of ancient beaver that was rediscovered by researchers in The University of Texas at Austin’s fossil collections...
ENGOT-EN6-NSGO/GOG-3031/RUBY trial results: The new standard of care in advanced/recurrent endometrial cancer
EMBARGO DATE: Monday, March 27, 2023, 12:30 pm ETCredit: ENGOT EMBARGO DATE: Monday, March 27, 2023, 12:30 pm ET PRESS...
New in The Lancet Neurology: Advances in brain modelling open a path to digital twin approaches for brain medicine
In the current edition of The Lancet Neurology, researchers of the Human Brain Project (HBP) present the novel clinical uses...
Routine preoperative medical consultations don’t improve surgery outcomes
A large observational study published in JAMA Internal Medicine suggests that most patients do not medically benefit from consultation with...
Meet the hybrid micro-robot: The tiny robot that is able to navigate in a physiological environment and capture targeted damaged cells
Innovative technology only 10 microns across the size of a biological cell:Credit: Courtesy of Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv University...
Machine learning-aided scoring of synthesis difficulties for designer chromosomes
Artificially synthesizing genomes has broad prospects in fields such as medical research and industrial strains. From the synthesis of the...
Don Quixote gives his name to a new plant species only known from La Mancha, Spain
The knowledge of biodiversity in allegedly well-known places is not as complete as one would expect and its detailed study...
Human cells help researchers understand squid camouflage
INDIANAPOLIS, March 27, 2023 — Squids and octopuses are masters of camouflage, blending into their environment to evade predators or...
A puff of air could deliver your next vaccine (video)
INDIANAPOLIS, March 27, 2023 — Nobody likes needles, but they’re necessary for delivering many vaccines and biologics into the body....
Two striking new species of carnivorous plants discovered in the Andes of Ecuador
A team of botanists from Ecuador, Germany, and the United States has described two new species of carnivorous plants with...
‘Nano inks’ could passively control temperature in buildings, cars
World-first ‘phase change inks’ that could transform how we heat and cool buildings, homes and cars – to achieve sophisticated...
Scientists make critical progress toward preventing C. diff infections
Each year, about 500,000 people in the U.S. deal with gastrointestinal infections from Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), and more than...
New ways to measure curls and kinks could make it easier to care for natural hair
INDIANAPOLIS, March 26, 2023 — Black women and others with curly or kinky hair encounter a vast and confusing array...
