Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, receives prestigious award from World Heart Federation
The World Heart Federation (WHF) is honoring Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, President of Mount Sinai Heart and Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital, with its...
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Nonlinear photochromic properties in a perylene-substituted rhodamine spirolactam
Photochromic compounds, which change their color when exposed to light, have been widely used as photoswitches to control different properties of materials. Nonlinear photochromic compounds,...
Inexpensive microplastic monitoring through porous materials and machine learning
Optical analysis and machine learning techniques can now readily detect microplastics in marine and freshwater environments using inexpensive porous metal substrates. Details of the method,...
Mystery of ‘slow’ solar wind unveiled by Solar Orbiter mission
Scientists have come a step closer to identifying the mysterious origins of the ‘slow’ solar wind, using data collected during the Solar Orbiter spacecraft’s first...
Monitoring diseases through sweat becomes accessible to everyone
Sweat contains biomarkers that can monitor various health conditions, from diabetes to genetic disorders. Sweat sampling, unlike blood collection, is preferred by users due to...
Scientists uncover a multibillion-year epic written into the chemistry of life
The origin of life on Earth has long been a mystery that has eluded scientists. A key question is how much of the history of...
Biodiversity in the margins: Merging farmlands affects natural pest control
A new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology demonstrates how the diversity and abundance of arthropods decrease when hedgerows and field margins covered by wild...
Climate change is moving tree populations away from the soil fungi that sustain them
As our planet warms, many species are shifting to different locations as their historical habitats become inhospitable. Trees are no exception – many species’ normal...
Bioinformatics approach could help optimize soldiers’ training for improved readiness and recovery
Of the many perils facing members of the military, injuries incurred in training or on deployment repeatedly sideline elite operators.Credit: Lehigh University Of the many...
Investigating the origin of circatidal rhythms in freshwater snails
Organisms, including humans, follow a schedule that coordinates important bodily functions such as sleep-wake cycles, metabolism, hormone production, cognitive function, and feeding habits to environmental...
Altering cellular interactions around amyloid plaques may offer novel Alzheimer’s treatment strategies
New York City, – Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have made a significant breakthrough in Alzheimer’s disease research by identifying...
Echidnapus identified from an ‘Age of Monotremes’
Published today in the Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, evidence of an ‘Age of Monotremes’ has been unearthed by a team of Australian scientists...
Euclid space mission releases first scientific results and new images of the cosmos
European space mission Euclid has released early scientific papers based on observations made by the space telescope, along with five new astronomical images of the...
Understanding a broken heart
The stress of heart failure is remembered by the body and appears to lead to recurrent failure, along with other related health issues, according to...
Theory and experiment combine to shine a new light on proton spin
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Nuclear physicists have long been working to reveal how the proton gets its spin. Now, a new method that combines experimental...
