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Faster in the Past: New seafloor images – the highest resolution of any taken off the West Antarctic Ice Sheet – upend understanding of Thwaites Glacier retreat
TAMPA, Fla. (Sept. 2, 2022) – The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica – about the size of Florida – has...
The neonatal ketone body determines the female ovarian aging via regulating follicle reserve
Premature ovarian ageing (POA) refers to an early decline in ovarian function; it is the main cause of infertility in...
DNA in Viking poop sheds new light on 55,000-year-old relationship between gut companions
Using stool samples from Viking latrines, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have genetically mapped one of the oldest human...
A novel approach to creating tailored odors and fragrances using machine learning
The sense of smell is one of the basic senses of animal species. It is critical to finding food, realizing...
Aston University welcomes new Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive
Aston University has welcomed Professor Aleks Subic as its new Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive. He has joined Aston University from...
Fish oil and vitamin D supplements in pregnancy lower the risk of croup in babies and young children
Babies and children under three years old are less likely to develop croup if their mothers took fish oil and...
Scientists develop direct measure for strength of skeletal muscle myotubes
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to characterize the force generated by contracting myotubes,...
UT Southwestern geriatric fracture initiatives result in expedited care and shorter hospital stays
A multidisciplinary effort to improve care for older patients who arrive at the emergency room with a hip fracture has...
Ronald Cowan, MD, named to Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Scientific Council
Ronald Cowan, MD, PhD, Harrison Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at...
Sanders-Brown researchers receive $20.5 million from National Institute on Aging for Alzheimer’s disease, dementia research
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 2, 2022) — A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging (SBCoA) has been awarded...
Making nanodiamonds out of bottle plastic
What goes on inside planets like Neptune and Uranus? To find out, an international team headed by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf...
‘Diamond rain’ on giant icy planets could be more common than previously thought
Menlo Park, Calif. — A new study has found that “diamond rain,” a long-hypothesized exotic type of precipitation on ice giant...
EP-WXT pathfinder catches first wide-field snapshots of X-ray universe
EP-WXT Pathfinder, the experimental version of a module that will eventually be part of the wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT) aboard...
Belimumab is efficacious for lupus nephritis in East Asian adults
This prespecified subgroup analysis of East Asian adults who participated in a phase 3 clinical trial of belimumab added to...
New study confirms ‘rippled sheet’ protein structure predicted in 1953
An unusual protein structure known as a “rippled beta sheet,” first predicted in 1953, has now been created in the...
nTIDE August 2022 Jobs Report: Employment indicators virtually unchanged for people with disabilities despite concerns about recession
East Hanover, NJ – September 2, 2022 – Despite concerns about the impact of inflation, employment indicators remained virtually unchanged,...
Study reveals starring role for shape-shifting mitochondria in stem cell function
Mitochondria are remarkable shape-shifting organelles that have long been understood as the powerhouses inside our cells. But relatively little is...
Researchers propose new and more effective model for automatic speech recognition
Popular voice assistants like Siri and Amazon Alexa have introduced automatic speech recognition (ASR) to the wider public. Though decades...
Research unlocks secrets of native rodents’ rat race to new lands
New research from The Australian National University (ANU) has mapped the DNA from more than 150 species of native rodents...
Development of a new end-functionalization technique in polymer synthesis
Vinyl polymerization (polymerization of vinyl compounds) is a useful method for preparing sp3-carbon-based main-chain polymers including commodity plastics, where the...
