Microbes could be used by farmers as natural fertilizer for poor soil
A study supported by FAPESP and reported in an article published in ISME Journal identified 522 genomes of archaea and bacteria associated with the roots and soil of two...
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Primary care plays a role in helping patients with long COVID symptoms by providing holistic, trustworthy care
Many people are experiencing a variety of long COVID-19 symptoms and are relying on some of their own methods to allay those symptoms. Others are...
“The Trust Circle” promotes inclusion of American Indian and Alaska Native populations in clinical trials
Indigenous populations, including people of American Indian and Alaska Native origin, are underrepresented in clinical trials. Researchers collaborated to modify the “trust triangle” model used...
Community health information exchanges may reduce likelihood of re-hospitalizations and follow-up emergency department visits
Researchers examined whether primary care physicians’ use of a secure community health information exchange (HIE) to access data about patient care transitions reduced the likelihood...
New Swedish quantum computer to be made available to industry
A Swedish quantum computer is to become more widely available. A copy of the quantum computer at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden will be...
Family tree secrets: Island tree populations older, more diverse than expected
Tsukuba, Japan—It's often assumed that island plant and animal populations are just the simple, fragile cousins of those on the mainland. But now, researchers from...
Soil organisms are essential for the maintenance of city parks and gardens
First global study deciphering the importance of soil biodiversity for the maintenance of city parks and gardensCredit: Melissa S. Martin First global study deciphering the...
Exploring the 74,963 different kinds of ice (video)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2023 — There are somewhere between 20 and 74,963 forms of ice because water can do all kinds of weird stuff when...
Aston University creates world first computational reconstruction of a virus in its biological entirety
Credit: Dr Dmitry Nerukh First ever computer reconstruction of a virus, including its complete native genome Will open way for investigating biological processes which can’t...
Physical effect also valid in the quantum world
Physicists at the University of Bonn have experimentally proven that an important theorem of statistical physics applies to so-called "Bose-Einstein condensates." Their results now make...
Collision risk and habitat loss: Wind turbines in forests impair threatened bat species
In order to meet climate protection goals, renewable energies are booming – often wind power. More than 30,000 turbines have already been installed on the...
Exotic water ice contributes to understanding of magnetic anomalies on Neptune and Uranus
Ordinary everyday ice, like the ice produced by a fridge, is known to scientists as hexagonal ice (ice Ih), and is not the only crystalline...
Unprecedented levels of high-severity fire burn in Sierra Nevada
High-severity wildfire is increasing in Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascade forests and has been burning at unprecedented rates compared to the years before Euro-American settlement,...
Vulnerability of red sea urchins to climate change depends on location
A new study of red sea urchins, a commercially valuable species, investigated how different populations respond to changes in their environments. The results show that...
Post-Obamacare, more adults with schizophrenia have health insurance
The national uninsurance rate for adults under age 65 with schizophrenia decreased by 50% after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014, according to...
