How intensive agriculture turned a wild plant into a pervasive weed
New research in Science is showing how the rise of modern agriculture has turned a North American native plant, common waterhemp, into a problematic agricultural...
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Astronomers discover enigmatic cosmic explosion
Cosmic explosions:Credit: A. Simonnet (Sonoma State University) and Goddard Space Flight Center. Cosmic explosions: Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful explosions in the Universe, resulting...
Casthouse technology specialists partner with Aston University to develop energy-efficient recycling systems
 Credit: Aston University Aston University and Mechatherm International Ltd enter Knowledge Transfer Partnership which is expected to reduce energy consumption by half The partnership will...
Finding simplicity within complexity
Picture a tall stately grandfather clock, its long pendulum swinging back and forth, over and again, keeping rhythm with the time. Scientists can describe that...
Solving the puzzle: Cubic silicon carbide wafer demonstrates high thermal conductivity, second only to diamond
A team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Material Science and Engineering researchers have solved a long-standing puzzle about lower measured thermal conductivity values of cubic...
Improving bladder cancer trials and treatments goal of new $6 million CPRIT recruit
HOUSTON-(Dec. 8, 2022) – With a focus on expediting the development of early-phase clinical trials and enhancing chemoimmunotherapy responses in bladder cancer, genitourinary cancer translational...
New STAT1-us quo? Novel STAT1 variants cause MSMD
Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) find three novel variants in STAT1 that cause Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial diseaseCredit: Department of Child Health...
$11m NIH grant will support evaluation of Alzheimer’s screening tool in primary care settings
December 8, 2022—BRONX, NY— Investigators at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Health System, Regenstrief Institute, and Indiana University School of Medicine have received an...
Accessibility is a human right, but it is not always achieved
Achieving accessibility requires knowledge of users' abilities, users' actual needs and the factors that influence the development chain. According to Juho-Pekka Mäkipää's doctoral dissertation from...
Changing the intrinsic behavior of neurons
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and MIT have developed a new method to target diseased neurons in the...
Canine brain wiring influenced by human-driven breeding practices
National Institutes of Health researchers have shown that areas of the genome related to brain development harbor variants that may account for behavioral differences among...
Your dog’s behavior is a product of their genes
From the excitable sheep dog to the aloof Shiba Inu, and all breeds in between, dogs have unique and diverse behavioral traits. By analyzing DNA...
Harvard researchers discover embryonic origins of adult pluripotent stem cells
Stem cells are a biological wonder. They can repair, restore, replace, and regenerate cells. In most animals and humans these cells are limited to regenerating...
Polarization after COVID-19: Global study published in Nature reveals that the unvaccinated face prejudice in most countries
Across all inhabited continents of the world, people show prejudice and discriminatory attitudes towards individuals not vaccinated against COVID-19. This is the result of a...
Florida mints radiated as peninsula sank and resurfaced during ice ages
During the ice ages of the Pleistocene, the Florida peninsula regularly grew to twice its current size as glaciers expanded near the planet’s poles, only...