A cool award for pig cooling technology
IHT Cooling Mats were voted the winner of National Hog Farmer’s 2024 New Product Tour during the World Pork Expo ...
Housing compatible shelter dogs together could reduce stress and might help them find homes sooner
Housing compatible shelter dogs together could reduce stress and might help them find homes soonerCredit: Erica Feuerbacher, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ...
‘Synthetic’ cell shown to follow chemical directions and change shape, a vital biological function
In a feat aimed at understanding how cells move and creating new ways to shuttle drugs through the body, scientists ...
Ancient Syrian diets resembled the modern “Mediterranean diet”
Thousands of years ago, people in ancient Syria likely ate mostly grains, grapes, olives and a small amount of dairy ...
NASA’s laser relay system sends pet imagery to, from space station
Using NASA’s first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system, pictures and videos of cherished pets flew through space over laser communications ...
The gender gap in life expectancy: are eggs and sperm partly responsible?
Osaka, Japan – Women live longer than men. This isn’t unique to humans, either; we see this trend in a ...
Unleashing the power of metamaterials to improve MRI imaging
In recent years, the field of metamaterials has experienced substantial growth, revealing exciting potential, especially in advancing magnetic resonance imaging ...
What waves know about their surroundings
We use ultrasound to analyse the body, radar systems to study airspace or seismic waves to study the interior of ...
NASA’s planet hunter satellite observes smaller object in a black hole pair directly for the first time
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) & M. Mugrauer (AIU Jena) Several international research groups have already confirmed the theory that ...
An AI-powered wearable system tracks the 3D movement of smart pills in the gut
Scientists at the University of Southern California have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system to track tiny devices that monitor ...
Ism1 deficiency in mice exacerbates bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis with enhanced cellular senescence and delayed fibrosis resolution
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and progressive lung disease marked by the thickening and scarring of lung tissue ...
Syphilis cases are rising, but many people don’t know symptoms
PHILADELPHIA – Syphilis cases are on the rise around the globe, but many Americans don’t know the symptoms.Credit: Annenberg Public ...
2024 Kavli Prize Laureates named in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience
Eight scientists from three countries are honored for their research that has broadened our understanding of the big, the small ...
Redefining “hormonal”: The new nonprofit empowering women
Hormonally.org is a digital platform that provides free-to-access, evidence-based resources designed to empower women (and all those affected by hormones) ...
Uncovering the nature of emergent magnetic monopoles
Magnetic monopoles are elementary particles with isolated magnetic charges in three dimensions. In other words, they behave as isolated north ...
Hokkaido University scientist recognized in award from the Royal Society of Chemistry
The NSF Center for Molecularly Optimized Networks team, of which Professor Jian Ping Gong of the Faculty of Advanced Life ...
Study demonstrates sustained reduction in child mortality following educational interventions in low-resourced countries
Pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in low and middle-income countries see elevated mortality rates, often 10 times higher than those ...
Quantum dots and metasurfaces: Deep connections in the nano world
In relationships, sharing closer spaces naturally deepens the connection as bonds form and strengthen through increasing shared memories. This principle ...
Painful truth about knee osteoarthritis: Why inactivity may be more complex than we think
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a common cause of pain and joint stiffness. And while physical activity is known to ease ...
An easier, less expensive way to power precision medicine
Proteins are workhorses that carry out most of the biological functions in our cells. While the genes we inherit from ...