Discovery of 30 exocomets in a young planetary system
For the past thirty years, the star β Pictoris has fascinated astronomers because it enables them to observe a planetary system in the process of...
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How brains form visual maps
Maps have played an important role in scientific progress. Claudius Ptolemaeus transformed our understanding of the world with his map of Earth and Tycho Brahe...
Unravelling the origins of the human spine
The spinal column is the central supporting structure of the skeleton in all vertebrates. Not only does it provide a place for muscles to attach,...
Mould, pesticides, toxic chemical exposures reported in survey of Canadian child care professionals
Nearly half of some 2,000 professionals in child care programs across Canada report unhealthy conditions for children, according to survey data released on national Healthy...
Huge new ichthyosaur, one of the largest animals ever, uncovered high in the Alps
Paleontologists have discovered sets of fossils representing three new ichthyosaurs that may have been among the largest animals to have ever lived, reports a new...
Giant marine reptiles at 2,800 meters above sea level
The first ichthyosaurs swam through the primordial oceans in the early Triassic period about 250 million years ago. They had an elongated body and a...
Gene mutations that contribute to head and neck cancer also provide “precision” treatment targets
AUGUSTA, Ga. (April 28, 2022) – About one-fifth of often deadly head and neck cancers harbor genetic mutations in a pathway that is key to normal...
Keysight and Singapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme to accelerate research, development and education in quantum technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading provider of advanced design and validation solutions, and Singapore’s Quantum Engineering Programme (QEP) have signed a Memorandum of...
Hype up fitness to support kids’ health post-lockdowns
As COVID-19 reaches record levels in the UK, health experts are calling for a focus on children’s physical fitness as new research reveals concerning changes...
Non-invasive examination of conjunctival goblet cells in live rabbits
A Korean research team led by Professor Ki Hean Kim, Ph.D. candidates Seonghan Kim and Jungbin Lee (Department of Mechanical Engineering) at POSTECH, in collaboration...
Give bidi cigarette rollers a voice to find new jobs, researchers say
India’s bidi cigarette workers need to be at the heart of discussions about finding alternatives to working in the tobacco industry, according to a new...
An epigenetic cause of miscarriages is identified and cured in mice
Researchers led by Azusa Inoue at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered a gene responsible for prenatal death when...
How to help the medicine go down: how UMass Amherst scientists are helping to engineer the next generation of medications
AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced that they have engineered a new class of material, called a “polyzwitterionic complex,”...
Scientists implicate non-cardiac genes in congenital heart disease
CHAPEL HILL, NC – Inside embryonic cells, specific proteins control the rate at which genetic information is transcribed from DNA to messenger RNA – a...
Zeroing in on a new treatment for autism and epilepsy
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—April 27, 2022—Children with Dravet syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy that begins in infancy, experience seizures, usually for their entire life. They...