China’s carbon-monitoring satellite reports global carbon net of six gigatons
Credit: Dongxu Yang About six gigatons -- roughly 12 times the mass of all living humans -- of carbon appears to be emitted over land...
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Four themes identified as contributors to diseases of despair in Pennsylvania
Credit: Penn State Hershey, Pa. -- Financial instability, lack of infrastructure, a deteriorating sense of community and family fragmentation are key contributors to diseases of...
Cascaded metasurfaces for dynamic control of THz wavefronts
Dynamic control of THz wavefronts demonstrated by rotating layers of cascaded metasurfacesCredit: Shanghai University Electromagnetic (EM) waves in the terahertz (THz) regime contribute to important...
Why do some people get severe COVID-19? The nose may know
People who develop severe COVID-19 have markedly blunted antiviral responses in the nasopharynxCredit: BioRxiv Feb 20, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.20.431155 The body's first encounter with SARS-CoV-2, the...
Featured articles from the journal CHEST®, July 2021
Credit: González Gutiérrez J., et al, Journal CHEST® Glenview, Ill. - Published monthly, the journal CHEST® features peer-reviewed, cutting-edge original research in chest medicine: Pulmonary,...
‘Feel good’ brain messenger can be willfully controlled, new study reveals
Neuroscientists show that mice can learn to manipulate random dopamine impulses for rewardCredit: Julia Kuhl From the thrill of hearing an ice cream truck approaching...
UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research
USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate Cassandra Suther has received a...
Novel imaging agent identifies biomarker for iron-targeted cancer therapies
Credit: Image created by Evans, Renslo et al. University of California San Francisco. Reston, VA--A new radiotracer that detects iron in cancer cells has proven...
“Noisy” gene expression may help improve stem cell therapies
Gladstone researchers discover fundamental mechanism that appears to speed the change of stem cells into other cell typesCredit: Photo: Michael Short/Gladstone Institutes SAN FRANCISCO, CA--July...
New insights into immune responses to malaria
Credit: WEHI, Australia Advanced technologies have been used to solve a long-standing mystery about why some people develop serious illness when they are infected with...
How the brain paints the beauty of a landscape
Researchers investigate how our brains proceed from merely seeing a landscape to feeling its aesthetic impactCredit: MPI for Empirical Aesthetics How does a view of...
Blushing plants reveal when fungi are growing in their roots
Credit: Temur Yunusov and Alfonso Timoneda Almost all crop plants form associations with a particular type of fungi - called arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi - in...
Research identifies potential role of ‘junk DNA’ sequence in aging, cancer
Credit: Photo by Cori Kogan, WSU Health Sciences Spokane The human body is essentially made up of trillions of living cells. It ages as its...
Phase two CD19-antibody-drug conjugate trial demonstrates promise for aggressive lymphoma
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center part of promising clinical trial for aggressive lymphomaCredit: MUSC Hollings Emma C. Vought MUSC Hollings Cancer Center was one of 28...
Scientists identify five new plant species in Bolivia
Credit: John Wood Scientists have identified five new plant species in the Bolivian Andes. The species are all part of the genus Jacquemontia, which are...
