New dinosaur named for Natural History Museum Professor
A new armoured dinosaur, known as an ankylosaur, has been described and named for Prof Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum. Vectipelta barretti was...
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THE LANCET HAEMATOLOGY: Global, regional, and national prevalence and mortality burden of sickle cell disease, 2000–2021
Credit: The Lancet Journal The Lancet Haematology Article Title Global, regional, and national prevalence and mortality burden of sickle cell disease, 2000–2021: a systematic analysis...
Healthy sex life during pandemic tied to an array of sexual coping strategies
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — New research suggests that people who maintained healthy sexual and intimate lives early in the pandemic used sex as a coping mechanism...
Carbon mitigation payments can make bioenergy crops more appealing for farmers
URBANA, Ill. — Bioenergy crops such as miscanthus and switchgrass provide several environmental benefits, but low returns and profit risks are barriers for investment by...
HaoSheng Sun named a Freeman Hrabowski scholar by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – HaoSheng Sun, Ph.D., assistant professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, has been named...
Tempest in a teacup: UChicago physicists make breakthrough in creating turbulence
Turbulence is all around us. It’s in the swirl of coffee and milk in a latte, unfurling along the wings of airplanes and the sides...
This salty gel could harvest water from desert air
MIT engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of moisture from the air, even in desert-like conditions. Credit: Image: Gustav...
Eating meals earlier improves metabolic health
Eating more of one’s daily calories earlier in the day may counter weight gain, improve blood sugar fluctuations, and reduce the time that blood sugar...
A new path for quantum physics to control chemical reactions
Controlling chemical reactions to generate new products is one of the biggest challenges in chemistry. Developments in this area impact industry, for example, by reducing...
Shaping the future of medicine: Redox Science takes center stage at the International Conference of Redox Medicine Society in Paris
Paris is set to host the highly anticipated 25th International Conference of the Redox Medicine Society, where global leaders and experts from the field will...
Quantum interference of light : an anomalous phenomenon found
In a paper published in Nature Photonics, the research team from the Center for Quantum Information and Communication – Ecole polytechnique de Bruxelles of Université...
Dirtiest snow-year in the Wasatch accelerated snowmelt by 17 days
As the shrinking Great Salt Lake exposes an ever-growing area of its lakebed, wind-blown dust becomes more dangerous for those living in Utah’s most populous...
Study reveals a trio of immune cells vital in response to liver cancer immunotherapy
New York, NY (June 15, 2023)—Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered a trio of immune cells within tumor niches...
Discovery of white dwarf pulsar sheds light on star evolution
The discovery of a rare type of white dwarf star system provides new understanding into stellar evolution.Credit: Credit Dr Mark Garlick//University of Warwick The discovery...
The Situation of the Uyghurs
The autonomous Uyghur region of Xinjiang (China) is located in the heart of Central Asia and at the crossroads between different cultures. Throughout its history,...
