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Youth mental and emotional health is a matter of high priority in Florida. A 2019 Florida Department of Health survey showed that 12.7 percent of...

Novel antibiotic-delivery system to target aggressive gum infections in adolescents

Aggressive periodontitis is a severe type of gum infection that causes the destruction of ligament and bone and can lead to tooth loss in otherwise...

Is Deep Learning a necessary ingredient for Artificial Intelligence?

The earliest artificial neural network, the Perceptron, was introduced approximately 65 years ago and consisted of just one layer. However, to address solutions for more...

Swedish quantum computer applied to chemistry for the first time

There are high expectations that quantum computers may deliver revolutionary new possibilities for simulating chemical processes. This could have a major impact on everything from...

The paleo-historical picture of the geographical range of African penguins over the past 22,000 years

African penguins: climate refugees from a distant past?

Imagine the view from the western coastline of southern Africa during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) over twenty thousand years ago: in the distance you...

Trim the sugar: New HIV vaccine design improves immune response

LA JOLLA, CA— A new HIV vaccine from Scripps Research has shown a significantly improved ability to neutralize the virus in preclinical tests, and it...

Researchers develop new lower cost, dual-modality imaging technique to facilitate earlier disease detection

Diagnostic imaging is indispensable in healthcare, as it allows clinicians to detect and diagnose a variety of medical conditions. Despite significant advances to imaging technology,...

Fighting a national nursing faculty shortage

Last year, nursing schools across the country were forced to turn away more than 90,000 qualified applicants. The reason: a lack of faculty members to...

New cause identified for metabolic disease that strikes Native Americans

DURHAM, N.C. – Duke Health researchers have identified the cause of an inherited metabolic disease common among people with Lumbee and other Native American heritage,...

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Scientists identify 2022 sea urchin killer

TAMPA, Fla. (APRIL 19, 2023) – The search for the 2022 killer that decimated the long-spined sea urchin population in the Caribbean and along Florida’s...

Newfound link between Alzheimer’s and iron could lead to new medical interventions

There is a growing body of evidence that iron in the brain may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease. Lending weight to that idea, a...

Empirical investigation on how wellbeing-related infrastructure shapes economic growth: Evidence from the European Union regions

Wellbeing-related factors linked with EU economic growth

A new study shows that certain factors related to wellbeing—including household income, internet access, and air pollution levels—are associated with economic growth in European Union...

Fish and bottlenose dolphins react differently to life in the noisy shipping corridor of Charleston Harbor Estuary in South Carolina, USA, with fish calls and choruses decreasing with anthropogenic noise, and dolphins ramping up vocalizations.

Fish and bottlenose dolphins react differently to life in noisy shipping corridor of Charleston Harbor Estuary, with fish calls and choruses decreasing with anthropogenic noise, and dolphins ramping up vocalizations

Fish and bottlenose dolphins react differently to life in noisy shipping corridor of Charleston Harbor Estuary, with fish calls and choruses decreasing with anthropogenic noise,...

Organic beekeeping rivals conventional methods for bee health, productivity

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Honey bee colonies managed using organic methods were as healthy and productive as those managed in conventional systems, while avoiding the...

Serine racemase upregulation improves learning and synaptic function