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Straight to the heart
Credit: Sebastian Diecke, MDC An international team of researchers are seeking to explore the heart at a depth that was...
Dental microwear provides clues to dietary habits of lepidosauria
Microscopic images allow to differentiate between carnivores and herbivores and might support the discovery of the first herbivorous terrestrial vertebratesCredit:...
Researchers find new mutation in the leptin gene
'Hunger hormone' imbalance can trigger obesityCredit: Texas Biomed San Antonio, Texas (June 19, 2019) - The global obesity epidemic is...
Embryonic microRNA fuels heart cell regeneration, Temple researchers show
(Philadelphia, PA) - By adulthood, the heart is no longer able to replenish injured or diseased cells. As a result,...
Parental care has forced great crested grebes to lay eggs with an eye on seagulls
It turned out that some birds have learned to change the time of egg incubation in order to breed along...
Hubble captures elusive, irregular galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA and F. Bauer This image shows an irregular galaxy named IC 10, a member of the Local...
$2 million NIH grant renewal to study hepatitis E virus
Annually infecting more than 20 million people worldwide -- particularly in developing countries -- according to the World Health Organization,...
Reason to present at the 6th Aging Research for Drug Discovery Forum in Basel
Credit: Insilico Medicine Friday, June 21, 2019 - Today Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline...
UTA working to develop longwave infrared photonic device technology
Nanophotonic devicesCredit: UT Arlington A research team from The University of Texas at Arlington is working with the Army Research...
Neural networks taught to recognize similar objects on videos without accuracy degradation
Andrey Savchenko, Professor at the Higher School of Economics (HSE University), has developed a method that can help to enhance...
Scientists map huge undersea fresh-water aquifer off US Northeast
Biggest such known formation; could signal resources worldwideCredit: Kerry Key In a new survey of the sub-seafloor off the U.S....
Ericsson activates 5G NSA technology at 5TONIC open innovation lab
Credit: IMDEA Networks Institute - The deployment, successfully achieved by Ericsson and Telefónica, includes a new 5G Massive MIMO Radio...
Northern lights’ social networking reveals true scale of magnetic storms
Magnetic disturbances caused by phenomena like the northern lights can be tracked by a 'social network' of ground-based instruments, according...
Scientists dissolve crude oil in water to study its composition
Credit: @tsarcyanide/MIPT Press Office Researchers from MIPT, Skoltech, the Joint Institute for High Temperatures of the Russian Academy of Sciences,...
‘Sneezing’ plants contribute to disease proliferation
Credit: Virginia Tech Virginia Tech researchers discovered that wheat plants "sneezing" off condensation can vastly impact the spread of spore-borne...
Brains of pairs of animals synchronize during social interaction
Credit: Dean Ishida/UCLA FINDINGS UCLA researchers have published a Cell study showing that the brains of pairs of animals synchronize...
Keeping children safe in the ‘Internet of Things’ age
Credit: Micro:Bit Educational Foundation Children need protection when using programmable Internet computing devices - and Lancaster University scientists have drawn...
Exposure to others’ suffering even worse than being shot at
Being exposed to life-threatening situations results in less PTSD than seeing others sufferCredit: Thorbjørn Kjosvold / Norwegian Armed Forces We...
Researchers discover traditional fluid flow observations may miss the big picture
Credit: FIGURE ADAPTED with permission from the cover of J. Phys. Chem. B 2019, 123, 21, 4587-4593. Copyright © 2019...
Deaths from cardiovascular diseases attributable to heat and cold down 38% in Spain
Temperature-related mortality has been decreasing in Spain over the past four decades, according to a new study led by the...
