Study: Southern states may have borne brunt of COVID-19 mental health impact
LAWRENCE — A new study appearing today in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE shows how federal and state lockdowns and health mandates implemented to curb the spread...
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In schools that could benefit most, building relationships is key to increasing capacity for nutrition education programming
Philadelphia, June 8, 2023 – The US Department of Agriculture Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education (SNAP-Ed) provides nutrition programming to individuals with low income, including students...
Taurine may be a key to longer and healthier life
NEW YORK, NY—A deficiency of taurine—a nutrient produced in the body and found in many foods—is a driver of aging in animals, according to a...
Tailoring fluorine-rich solid electrolyte interphase to boost high efficiency and long cycling stability of lithium metal batteries
This study is led by Prof. Ji Qian and Prof. Renjie Chen (Department of Energy and Environmental Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing...
Octopuses rewire their brains to adapt to seasonal temperature shifts
Octopuses don’t thermoregulate, so their powerful brains are exposed to—and potentially threatened by—changes in temperature. Researchers report June 8 in the journal Cell that two-spot...
Confinement effects of carbon nanotubes on polyoxometalate clusters enhance electrochemical energy storage
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are considered ideal electrochemical energy storage materials due to their high electrical conductivity, large theoretical surface area, and good chemical stability.Credit: WANG...
Improving market design for energy storage
New York, NY—June 8, 2023—Energy storage plays a crucial role in our transition to cleaner and more sustainable energy sources. It enables us to store...
When water temperatures change, the molecular motors of cephalopods do too
Cephalopods are a large family of marine animals that includes octopuses, cuttlefish and squid. They live in every ocean, from warm, shallow tropical waters to...
Penn Dental Medicine collaboration identifies new bacterial species involved in tooth decay
Philadelphia — Collaborating researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and the Adams School of Dentistry and Gillings School of Global Public...
Greenhouse gas emissions at ‘an all-time high’ causing unprecedented rate of global warming – global scientists
Human-caused global warming has continued to increase at an “unprecedented rate” since the last major assessment of the climate system published two years ago, say...
A novel way to diagnose early-onset atopic dermatitis using sebum
Eczema is an inflammatory skin condition that often affects infants as young as one to two months. Among the various types of eczema seen in...
UMass Amherst epidemiologist updates and validates ‘gold standard’ of prenatal physical activity tools
A University of Massachusetts Amherst public health researcher has updated and validated the widely used Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire (PPAQ) to improve the measurement performance...
Study unravels the mysteries of actin filament polarity
Actin filaments — protein structures critical to living movement from single cells to animals — have long been known to have polarity associated with their...
Researchers tune thermal conductivity of materials ‘on the fly’ for more energy-efficient devices
A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities scientists and engineers discovered a new method for tuning the thermal conductivity of materials to control...
Topological phase protection reams to sub-symmetry
An international team led by researchers at Nankai University in China and at University of Zagreb in Croatia, along with team at the Institut national...
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