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Rising rates of benzodiazepine toxicity among young people spark concern
Toronto, ON, June 15, 2023 – The rate of hospital encounters for benzodiazepine-related toxicity rose by 67 per cent for...
A marine mystery: Discovering the link between climate change and sea sponge loss
Sea sponges are essential to marine ecosystems. They play critical roles in the ocean, as they provide shelter and food...
Access to financial services linked to lower COVID mortality rates
New research shows that some of the best tools to decrease COVID-19 mortality rates weren’t found in the ER, but...
A plant-based, oral delivery of insulin regulates blood sugar levels similar to natural insulin
Insulin production has, for the last 50 or so years, come with some risks to the patient. Even so, the...
The Viking disease can be due to gene variants inherited from Neanderthals
Many men in northern Europe over the age of 60 suffer from the so-called Viking disease, which means that the...
New technique in error-prone quantum computing makes classical computers sweat
Despite steady improvements in quantum computers, they're still noisy and error prone, which leads to questionable or wrong answers. Scientists...
Hybrid AI-powered computer vision combines physics and big data
Researchers from UCLA and the United States Army Research Laboratory have laid out a new approach to enhance artificial intelligence-powered...
Mapping cities in motion
There are many ways to map New York City, including street maps of Manhattan’s famous grid, the brightly colored subway...
Elimination of type of bacteria suggests treatment for endometriosis
A research group from the Graduate School of Medicine and iGCORE at Nagoya University in Japan, has discovered that using...
Sun’s coldest region stores secret to heating million-degree corona, study finds
Nearly five thousand kilometers above the Sun’s surface lies a century-old question for solar physicists — how are temperatures in...
Preserving forests to protect deep soil from warming
A recent study led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Zurich has revealed...
The mutant origin of brain aneurysms and the first drug treatment
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan have discovered a set of related mutations that lead...
Gearhart named director of ORNL’s Environment, Safety, Health and Quality Directorate
John Gearhart has been named director of the Environment, Safety, Health and Quality Directorate at the Department of Energy’s Oak...
Gemini North detects multiple rock-forming elements in the atmosphere of a scorching exoplanet
WASP-76b is a strange world. Located 634 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation of Pisces, the Jupiter-like exoplanet...
IEEE Photonics Society in search for Editor-in-Chief
The IEEE Photonics Society invites applications and nominations for the volunteer position of Editor-in-Chief (EiC) for the IEEE Photonics Journal,...
The life below our feet: team discovers microbes thriving in groundwater and producing oxygen in the dark
WOODS HOLE, Mass. – Nearly a third of Earth’s freshwater resources lie in groundwater – much more than in all...
Astronomers discover new link between dark matter and clumpiness of the universe
In a study published today in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, researchers at the University of Toronto reveal...
For experimental physicists, quantum frustration leads to fundamental discovery
AMHERST, Mass. – A team of physicists, including University of Massachusetts assistant professor Tigran Sedrakyan, recently announced in the journal...
Photosynthesis, key to life on Earth, starts with a single photon
Using a complex cast of metal-studded pigments, proteins, enzymes, and co-enzymes, photosynthetic organisms can convert the energy in light into...
Metamaterials with built-in frustration have mechanical memory
Researchers from the UvA Institute of Physics and ENS de Lyon have discovered how to design materials that necessarily have...
