Bolder marmoset monkeys learn faster than shy ones
Individual traits seem to drive our learning success: for instance, conscientious individuals often show higher academic performance. A group of cognitive and behavioural biologists from...
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These bats deter predators by buzzing like hornets
In Batesian mimicry, a harmless species imitates a more dangerous one in an evolutionary “ruse” that affords the mimic protection from would-be predators. Now, researchers...
50 years of traditional crop conservation a success but some crops still lack protection
A global analysis of the representation of traditional farmer varieties (often called landraces) of 25 major crops in genebanks around the world has shown that...
SDSU researchers identify rare genetic markers of drug-resistant tuberculosis
To many, tuberculosis (TB) may seem like a disease from a bygone era. But it still claims more than one million lives every year. And...
Digital divide: Data highlights internet inequities in Chicago
In 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act authorized $65 billion to expand broadband access and adoption, and address disparities highlighted by the COVID pandemic...
Usefulness of monitoring IgG against Antigen-85b for prediction of tuberculosis development from latency: From an elephant tuberculosis analysis
Niigata, Japan - Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb); the leading cause of human death due to a single pathogen...
New review highlights innovative catalysts: Design and application
Nano-catalysis provides many opportunities for chemical transformations, ranging from chemical manufacturing to energy conversion and storage. By far, mainly due to the recovery aspect, heterogeneous...
Model finds COVID-19 deaths among elderly may be due to genetic limit on cell division
Your immune system’s ability to combat COVID-19, like any infection, largely depends on its ability to replicate the immune cells effective at destroying the SARS-CoV-2...
Paid leave mandates reduce likelihood of decreasing paid work hours after a spouse’s health shock, study shows
The 2022 Economic Report of the President cited Associate Professor of Health Administration and Policy Priyanka Anand’s research on the impact of paid family leave...
Nature helps mental health, research says—but only for rich, white people?
New research shows that a rapidly-growing environmental science field—which measures nature’s effects on human well-being—has a diversity problem that threatens its ability to make universal...
Chirped pulse driven cavity soliton dynamics
Researchers led by Prof. Tianye Huang at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China, are interested in the passive Kerr-resonators-based dissipative cavity solitons. The pulsed driving...
Study enlists friends, family to help sexual assault survivors with recovery
Most services for sexual assault survivors focus on the survivor. A UW Medicine researcher is studying a new program that instead focuses on survivors’ friends,...
Candy-coated pills could prevent pharmaceutical fraud
While most of us were baking sourdough bread and watching “Tiger King” to stay sane during the pandemic shutdown, UC Riverside bioengineering professor William Grover...
Retinal cell map could advance precise therapies for blinding diseases
Researchers have identified distinct differences among the cells comprising a tissue in the retina that is vital to human visual perception. The scientists from the...
Saving the Mekong delta from drowning
Southeast Asia’s most productive agricultural region and home to 17 million people could be mostly underwater within a lifetime. Saving the Mekong River Delta requires...
