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nTIDE August 2022 COVID Update: Unemployment stable at pre-pandemic levels for people with disabilities
East Hanover, NJ. September 26, 2022. August marked the fourth consecutive month of stable unemployment numbers for people with disabilities,...
University of Washington joins industry-academia alliance to accelerate research in neuroscience
The University of Washington has joined the Alliance for Therapies in Neuroscience (ATN), a long-term research partnership between academia and...
FIU Stempel College researchers awarded NIH supplement grant to explore the role of a neuroinflammation protein in Alzheimer’s disease
For years, researchers have been working to identify risk factors and treatments to help slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Credit:...
A different kind of chaos
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Physicists at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Maryland, and also at the University of...
Asteroid that formed Vredefort crater bigger than previously believed
About two billion years ago, an impactor hurtled toward Earth, crashing into the planet in an area near present-day Johannesburg,...
Family ties change with age and sex and determine how much animals help each other as they become older
The motivation to help conspecifics differs from species to species – and also between males and females. An international team...
The neural cartography of smell
NEW YORK – Rendering the invisible visible is among scientists’ favorite challenges. Credit: Hani Shayya/Stavros Lomvardas/Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK –...
UH astronomers map distances to 56,000 galaxies, largest-ever catalog
How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by University of Hawaiʻi at...
The mysterious mechanics of morphogenesis
Tissue engineering—creating a “seed” of tissue that could grow into a functional, life-saving organ—sounds like magic. But it could become...
Key phases of human evolution coincide with flickers in eastern Africa’s climate
Three distinct phases of climate variability in eastern Africa coincided with shifts in hominin evolution and dispersal over the last...
Solving stability problems of relevant graphene derivatives
In the last decades, a new synthetic approach has been developed, generally termed as “on-surface synthesis” that substantially departs from...
Role of α-ketoglutarate acid （AKG）and its receptor OXGR1 in male sperm maturation
Infertility is a global public health problem caused by genetic defects, lifestyle, nutrition, and factors affecting the local metabolism and...
Plastics of the future will live many past lives, thanks to chemical recycling
One day in the not-too-distant future, the plastics in our satellites, cars and electronics may all be living their second,...
SwRI wins R&D 100 Award for Integrally Geared Supercritical CO2 Compander
SAN ANTONIO — Sept. 26, 2022 — A Southwest Research Institute-developed technology has won a prestigious R&D 100 Award. R&D...
New way to track peripheral artery disease aids quest for better treatments
Cardiovascular experts at UVA Health have found a new way to track peripheral artery disease (PAD), a serious medical condition...
Dozens of newly discovered gravitational lenses could reveal ancient galaxies and the nature of dark matter
Earlier this year a machine learning algorithm identified up to 5,000 potential gravitational lenses that could transform our ability to...
‘Placenta-on-a-chip’ mimics malaria-infected nutrient exchange between mother-fetus
Placental malaria as a consequence of Plasmodium falciparum infections can lead to severe complications for both mother and child. Each year,...
Artificial intelligence reduces a 100,000-equation quantum physics problem to only four equations
Using artificial intelligence, physicists have compressed a daunting quantum problem that until now required 100,000 equations into a bite-size task...
New study adds to evidence on best CVAD securement methodology
FERNDALE, Mich. -- A new study on securement for central vascular access devices (CVAD) suggests that subcutaneous anchor securement systems (SASS)...
Rising food prices hit less-healthy older adults hardest, poll suggests
Three-quarters of people over age 50 in the United States say the rising cost of groceries has affected them somewhat...
