Palm oil plantations change the social behavior of macaques
Researchers spent months observing groups of southern pig-tailed macaquesCredit: Photo: Anna Holzner Due to the extensive clearing of their habitat, these primates sometimes turn to...
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Nobel Prize winner named Fellow of the Royal Society
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- M. Stanley Whittingham, a 2019 Nobel Laureate and distinguished professor at Binghamton University, State...
Birds dealing with change — Mapping migration routes can lead to conservation areas
Credit: Photo: Ginny Chan Tracking migratory birds that carry tiny satellite transmitters in featherlight 'backpacks', can teach us a lot about change in the environment....
Liquid-like motion in crystals could explain their promising behavior in solar cells
Credit: (Image by Jill Hemman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.) The sun delivers more energy to Earth in one hour than humanity consumes over an entire...
Cognitive-behavioral approach to treatment of obesity yields significant results
The study showed that interdisciplinary action facilitates weight loss, improves quality of life and eating behavior, and reduces symptoms of depression.Credit: Suzana Maria Rossi Teixeira...
Virginia Tech scientists see fluid flow as potential key to fight Alzheimer’s disease
Credit: Virginia Tech Scientists don't fully understand what causes Alzheimer's disease, but they have a primary suspect. Certain forms of a protein called amyloid beta...
Risk scores for predicting short-term outcomes for patients with unexplained syncope
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM Des Plaines, IL - The Canadian Syncope Risk Score (CSRS) is an accurate...
Long search finds grain of hope in the glume
Credit: John Innes Centre Researchers have found the elusive genetic element controlling the elongated grains and glumes of a wheat variety identified by the renowned...
Tampons, sanitary napkins could diagnose yeast infections with color-changing threads
Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00806 The yeast Candida albicans can cause itchy, painful urinary tract and vaginal yeast infections. For women in...
Researchers use ‘hole-y’ math and machine learning to study cellular self-assembly
Credit: Wong lab/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The field of mathematical topology is often described in terms of donuts and pretzels. To most of us,...
Novel immunotherapy boosts long-term stroke recovery in mice
Credit: Xiaoming Hu/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, May 19, 2021 - Specialized immune cells that accumulate in the brain in the days and weeks after a...
Mapping the quantum frontier, one layer at a time
Researchers design new experiments to map and test the mysterious quantum realmCredit: Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer A heart surgeon doesn't need to grasp quantum mechanics...
Envisioning safer cities with AI
Researchers use crowdsourced data, neural networks, and supercomputers to simulate risks to cities and regionsCredit: Chaofeng Wang, SimCenter, UC Berkeley Artificial intelligence is providing new...
Carbohydrate ‘cage’ allows precise drug delivery to the gastrointestinal tract
A GlycoCage technology developed by GlycoNet researchers aims to improve current treatments for inflammatory bowel diseaseCredit: UBC, Michael Smith Laboratories More Canadians suffer from inflammatory...
NASA’s Webb to study how massive stars’ blasts of radiation influence their environments
Credit: Credits: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Massimo Robberto (STScI, ESA), Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) In a nearby stellar...
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