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Global hunger, carbon emissions could both spike if war limits grain exports
AMES, Iowa — If Russia's invasion and the ensuing war significantly reduce Ukrainian grain exports, surging prices could increase food...
Drug discovery method identifies naturally occurring metabolite that converts ‘bad’ fat to ‘good’ fat
LA JOLLA, CA— “Metabolism” describes the body’s chemical changes that create the necessary materials for growth and overall health. Metabolites...
The missing link: Fatty acid metabolism impacts plant immunity
That healthy salad you ate for lunch contains fatty acids—surprised? Fatty acids, lipids, and fats in our food may sound...
How does social behavior lead to clusters of vaccine hesitancy?
Geographical pockets of vaccination behavior can be attributed to both pre-existing socio-demographic clusters as well as the way vaccine hesitancy...
Oregon State, U.S. Dept. of Energy researchers take key step toward big gains in plastics recycling
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers including an Oregon State University College of Engineering faculty member have taken a key step toward...
New study finds distinct brain networks associated with risk and resilience in depression
A new study that links the location of brain injury to levels of depression in patients following the injury has...
ACM TechBrief highlights risk-limiting audits as efficient means of confirming the accuracy of election results
New York, NY, October 13, 2022 – The Association for Computing Machinery’s global Technology Policy Council (TPC) has released "Election...
Research shows social spiders have different ways of hunting in groups
New research has identified how social spiders evolved different ways of hunting in groups.Credit: Virginia Settepani New research has identified...
More than 131+ communications on mitochondria will be presented during Targeting Mitochondria 2022 in Berlin
Berlin will host the 13th annual meeting of the World Mitochondria Society with more than 131 communications related to mitochondria...
Land in a cyclone’s wake becomes more vulnerable to forest fires
The strong winds and torrential rains that accompany a cyclone do tremendous damage to ecosystems, and this damage can make...
Conscious perception of sound is carried by dedicated assemblies of neurons in the brain
A new study co-led by Human Brain Project researchers in France has revealed how consciously listening generates sound-specific assemblies of...
Diego bows to ancestral sabretoothed mammal
Dogs, cats, and their close relatives -- existing and extinct -- are members of Carnivoramorpha, a group of mammals in...
Popular herbicide weakens bumblebees’ color vision
Finnish researchers found out how Roundup, a herbicide containing glyphosate, affects the learning and memory of bumblebees. Already a small...
New satellite imagery first to identify endangered Gulf of St. Lawrence North Atlantic right whale from space
New satellite imagery research led by the University of Ottawa is the first to identify a specific endangered Gulf of...
New horizons in neural recording systems
Geneva, Switzerland - A new whitepaper, released by the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, reveals the first neural signals...
Pandemic escalated teen cyberbullying – Asian Americans targeted most
Early in the COVID‐19 pandemic, there was a concern that cyberbullying incidents (online threats, mistreatment or harassment) would increase because...
Yes, we can!
-- The year was 2018 and physicist Fariba Karimi remembers feeling appalled and disgusted by the remarks made by a prominent...
Red Alert: massive stars sound warning they are about to go supernova
Astronomers from Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Montpellier have devised an ‘early warning’ system to sound the...
Smelling in VR environment possible with new gaming technology
An odor machine, so-called olfactometer, makes it possible to smell in VR environments. First up is a “wine tasting game”...
Study: ‘Exploring’ inventors thrive in workplaces with open communications
TAMPA, Fla. (Oct. 12, 2022) – A new organizational design study from researchers at the University of South Florida sheds...
