Seagrasses turn back the clock on ocean acidification
Expansive study shows seagrass meadows can buffer ocean acidificationCredit: Melissa Ward, UC Davis Spanning six years and seven seagrass meadows along the California coast, a...
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What are we breeding for, and who decides?
The future of selection decisions and breeding programs are examined in a review in the Journal of Dairy Science®Credit: Journal of Dairy Science Philadelphia, March...
Revealing meat and fish fraud with a handheld ‘MasSpec Pen’ in seconds
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c07830 Meat and fish fraud are global problems, costing consumers billions of dollars every...
Study reveals large and unequal health burden from air pollution in California’s Bay Area
Results underscore need for urgent action to reduce air pollution, particularly in overburdened areasCredit: Getty Images WASHINGTON (March 31, 2021)-- New research published today in...
Psychologist shares skills to help families cope when a loved one has OCD
Credit: The Guilford Press New York, NY--When a loved one has Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), it's a constant struggle. It hurts to see your spouse so...
Temperature sensor could help safeguard mRNA vaccines
Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00404 Scientists have developed vaccines for COVID-19 with record speed. The first two vaccines widely distributed in the...
Why SARS-CoV-2 replicates better in the upper respiratory tract
Credit: © UniBE "SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV are highly similar genetically, generate a homologous repertoire of viral proteins, and use the same receptor to infect human...
Canadian-built laser chills antimatter to near absolute zero for first time
Researchers achieve world's first manipulation of antimatter by laserCredit: Chukman So/TRIUMF Vancouver, BC - Researchers with the CERN-based ALPHA collaboration have announced the world's first...
Scientists at CERN successfully laser-cool antimatter for the first time
The result opens the door to considerably more precise studies of the response of antimatter to light and of how it behaves under the influence...
Scientists from Russia and Germany measured how the brain learn new words
Credit: Urfu / Nadezhda Pavlova. Researchers from University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) and Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia) have developed and experimentally tested new method...
World’s largest public scenario database for testing and assuring safe autonomous vehicle
The Safety PoolTM Scenario Database, the largest public repository of scenarios for testing autonomous vehicles in the world, has been launched today by WMG at...
New approach for the development of a drug treatment for obesity and the resulting diseases
Credit: Ruth Karlina The protein Asc-1 regulates whether fat-burning beige or fat-storing white adipocytes are formed, which can have an impact on the development of...
A new technique to synthesize superconducting materials
University of Rochester researchers reduce the pressure required by separating hydrogen atoms from yttrium with a thin film of palladiumCredit: Ranga Dias lab/University of Rochester...
Pumping the ‘brain brake’ in pediatric anxiety
UC researchers find ways to predict treatment outcomes for adolescent anxiety using brain imagingCredit: Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati As with any complex machine, sometimes a...
Findings offer ‘recipe’ for fine tuning alloys for high-temperature use
Credit: Levente Vitos Superalloys that withstand extremely high temperatures could soon be tuned even more finely for specific properties such as mechanical strength, as a...
