Advanced analysis of Apollo sample illuminates Moon’s evolution
Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission revealed new information about the complex cooling and evolutionary history...
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New model accurately describes COVID-19 waves and plateaus: Adding random nature of social activity to traditional model, graphs match waves and plateaus of regional US data
To better understand the factors governing the wave and plateau dynamics of the spread of COVID-19, a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of...
Experiments riding 24th SpaceX cargo mission to space station study bioprinting, crystallization, laundry
The 24th SpaceX cargo resupply services mission, targeted to launch in late December from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carries scientific research and technology demonstrations to the International Space...
UC Santa Barbara scientists connect diet and temperature to metabolism in opaleye fish
Whether it’s warm outside or cold, people generally eat about the same amount. But a fish’s appetite can vary enormously with the temperature. As coldblooded...
A medication against SARS-CoV-2 – new strategy promises protection also against future SARS-CoV-2 variants
Vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been made possible by an unprecedented worldwide partnership. But medications against Covid-19 have as yet seen only partial success....
Decade-old photographs shared on social media give away a new species of pygmy grasshopper
While scrolling through iNaturalist - a social network where professional and citizen scientists share their photographs, in order to map biodiversity observations from across the...
Debilitating human parasite transmitted via dogs eating fish
Efforts to eradicate a human parasitic disease are being hampered by dogs eating infected fish, new research shows.Credit: Jared Wilson-Aggarwal Efforts to eradicate a human...
Queen’s genes determine sex of entire ant colonies
Researchers have discovered the genetic basis for a quirk of the animal kingdom — how ant queens produce broods that are entirely male or female. Credit:...
Earliest adorned female infant burial in Europe significant in understanding evolution of personhood
Ten thousand years ago, just after the last Ice Age, a group of hunter-gatherers buried an infant girl in an Italian cave. They entombed her...
Glioma invasion may be affected by the parietooccipital fissure and white matter fibers rather than being a random phenomenon
Charlottesville, VA (December 14, 2021). Researchers from four academic neurosurgical centers in Japan found that the parietooccipital fissure, which divides the temporal, occipital, and parietal...
Learning and protecting itself: how the brain adapts
The brain is a remarkably complex and adaptable organ. However, adaptability decreases with age: as new connections between nerve cells in the brain form less...
Joanna Chikwe is named editor-in-chief of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
CHICAGO (December 13, 2021) — The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has appointed Joanna Chikwe, MD, FRCS, as the new Editor-in-Chief of The Annals of...
A missing link in the MHC class divergence puzzle: Class II came first
Which came first, MHC class I or MHC class II? For decades, it has been debated which of these two similar classes came first in...
An enemy within: Pathogens hide in tissue
Antibiotics cure many bacterial infections. However, some patients suffer a relapse. A research group at the University of Basel has now discovered why some bacteria...
Once upon a BCG vaccine
LA JOLLA—A long, long time ago, the BCG vaccine was approved for use against tuberculosis (TB), and it's still given to infants today. For generations,...
