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As physicists delve deeper into the quantum realm, they are discovering an infinitesimally small world composed of a strange and surprising array of links, knots...

Bologna 8 April 2022 - Patients who have suffered from a first episode of unprovoked venous thromboembolism (VTE) have an eight times higher risk of...

The Helsinki Health Study at the University of Helsinki investigated the development of insomnia symptoms in midlife and their effects on memory, learning ability and...

Energy storage with rechargeable battery technologies powers our digital lifestyles and supports renewable energy integration into the power grid. However, battery function under cold conditions...

Containing specimens from different locations, sometimes spanning across centuries, museum collections can teach us a lot about how some animals are built and how we...

Fukuoka, Japan—Thanks to over a century of modern neuroscience, we have made significant strides in our understanding of the brain. Nonetheless, we have only just...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed several new varieties of wheat that tolerate soils with higher salt concentrations. After having mutated a wheat...

Wildlife trade is a multi-million dollar industry. While some animals are traded legally, in compliance with legislation that aims to protect populations, wildlife trafficking continues...

Holographic devices are used for security enhancement, entertainment, 3D display technologies and augmented reality but not limited to them. Due to their high information capacity,...

URBANA, Ill. – New research from the University of Illinois suggests high levels of dietary cholesterol make mice sicker when infected with influenza. The study...

Antibiotics have saved countless lives since they were introduced in the 1940s, curing infections and making procedures like chemotherapy and surgeries safer. But their effectiveness...

A hospital or medical clinic might be the last place you’d expect to pick up a nasty infection, but approximately 1.7 million Americans do each...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a low cost, low power technology to help robots accurately map their way indoors, even...

Article URL:  http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010062 Credit: Wendy Puryear, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL:  http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010062  Article Title: Ecological divergence of wild birds drives avian influenza spillover and global spread...

When it comes to avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, all birds are not created equal. Credit: Alonso Nichols/Tufts University When it comes to...