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Beyond the brim, Sombrero Galaxy’s halo suggests turbulent past
Credit: NASA/Digitized Sky Survey/P. Goudfrooij (STScI)/The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Surprising new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggests the...
The University of Tennessee System announces One Health Initiative
Effort to focus on animal, environmental issues with implications for human healthCredit: Tory Salvador, UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University...
About 8% of West Virginia babies are exposed to alcohol shortly before birth
Credit: Aira Burkhart/West Virginia University illustration About 8 percent of West Virginia newborns are exposed to alcohol two to four...
Diversifying traditional forest management to protect forest arthropods
Forest arthropods and rivers: an unknown connectionCredit: Antoni Serra, UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-CRBA The structure of vegetation and steam distance are...
New findings: Pacific marine national monuments do not harm fishing industry
Credit: NOAA New scientific findings released today in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, show that expansion Aof the Pacific Remote...
Social networks reveal dating in blue tits
Blue tits that are already associated in winter are more likely to have young together in springCredit: Kristina Beck Winter...
Cryptographic ‘tag of everything’ could protect the supply chain
Tiny, battery-free ID chip can authenticate nearly any product to help combat losses to counterfeitingCredit: Courtesy of Ruonan Han, et....
A scaffold at the center of our cellular skeleton
UNIGE researchers have discovered a new nano-structure that lies at the center of our cellular skeleton; this discovery will allow...
Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finder
Credit: Gudmundur Stefansson (left) and Ethan Tweedie Photography (right) A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated...
E-cigarette users are exposed to potentially harmful levels of metal linked to DNA damage
Zinc excess in the body correlates with oxidative stressCredit: Talbot lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Researchers at the University...
Hispanics/Latinos underrepresented in Alzheimer’s disease research
UH researcher to increase health literacy among largest US minorityCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston researcher is working...
ATS Foundation/Pulmonary Hypertension Association 2019 Partner Grant awardees
Credit: ATS (Feb. 20, 2020) -- The ATS Foundation Research Program/Pulmonary Hypertension Association has awarded Rahul Kumar, PhD, of the...
Active droplets
Long-lasting and precise dosing of medication thanks to an oil-hydrogel mixtureCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Using a mixture of oil...
The climate and increased extreme weather affect our energy systems
Credit: University of Gothenburg Climate change, with more and more storms and heat waves, also has consequences for our energy...
Exploring a genome’s 3D organization through a social network lens
DNA, proteins form communities that provide insight into cellular processeCredit: Ella Marushchenko PITTSBURGH--Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken...
How newborn stars prepare for the birth of planets
ALMA and VLA observe hundreds of planet-forming disks around infant starsCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Tobin; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; Herschel/ESA An...
Cooling unit saves half-million gallons of water at supercomputing center
Eventual savings expected to reach 16 million gallons annuallyCredit: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A cooling unit...
DNA from ancient packrat nests helps unpack Earth’s past
New study uses environmental DNA sequencing technique to show ecological changes since last Ice AgeCredit: © Julio Betancourt New work...
10,000 times faster calculations of many-body quantum dynamics possible
Physicists have developed an extremely fast simulation technique to predict the time evolution of interacting electronsCredit: Niclas Schlünzen, AG Bonitz...
Pill-sized ‘heater’ could increase accessibility in diagnosing infectious disease
Device developed at University of Toronto Engineering regulates the temperature of biological samples through different stages of diagnostic testingCredit: Qin...
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