About 8% of West Virginia babies are exposed to alcohol shortly before birth
Credit: Aira Burkhart/West Virginia University illustration About 8 percent of West Virginia newborns are exposed to alcohol two to four weeks before birth, according to...
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Diversifying traditional forest management to protect forest arthropods
Forest arthropods and rivers: an unknown connectionCredit: Antoni Serra, UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-CRBA The structure of vegetation and steam distance are important factors to consider in...
New findings: Pacific marine national monuments do not harm fishing industry
Credit: NOAA New scientific findings released today in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications, show that expansion Aof the Pacific Remote Islands and Papahanaumokuakea marine national...
Social networks reveal dating in blue tits
Blue tits that are already associated in winter are more likely to have young together in springCredit: Kristina Beck Winter associations predict social and extra-pair...
Cryptographic ‘tag of everything’ could protect the supply chain
Tiny, battery-free ID chip can authenticate nearly any product to help combat losses to counterfeitingCredit: Courtesy of Ruonan Han, et. al, edited by MIT News...
A scaffold at the center of our cellular skeleton
UNIGE researchers have discovered a new nano-structure that lies at the center of our cellular skeleton; this discovery will allow to better understand how the...
Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finder
Credit: Gudmundur Stefansson (left) and Ethan Tweedie Photography (right) A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the...
E-cigarette users are exposed to potentially harmful levels of metal linked to DNA damage
Zinc excess in the body correlates with oxidative stressCredit: Talbot lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have completed...
Hispanics/Latinos underrepresented in Alzheimer’s disease research
UH researcher to increase health literacy among largest US minorityCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston researcher is working to increase health literacy among...
ATS Foundation/Pulmonary Hypertension Association 2019 Partner Grant awardees
Credit: ATS (Feb. 20, 2020) -- The ATS Foundation Research Program/Pulmonary Hypertension Association has awarded Rahul Kumar, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco,...
Active droplets
Long-lasting and precise dosing of medication thanks to an oil-hydrogel mixtureCredit: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Using a mixture of oil droplets and hydrogel, medical active...
The climate and increased extreme weather affect our energy systems
Credit: University of Gothenburg Climate change, with more and more storms and heat waves, also has consequences for our energy supply. An international research team...
Exploring a genome’s 3D organization through a social network lens
DNA, proteins form communities that provide insight into cellular processeCredit: Ella Marushchenko PITTSBURGH--Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have taken an algorithm used to study...
How newborn stars prepare for the birth of planets
ALMA and VLA observe hundreds of planet-forming disks around infant starsCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Tobin; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; Herschel/ESA An international team of astronomers used...
Cooling unit saves half-million gallons of water at supercomputing center
Eventual savings expected to reach 16 million gallons annuallyCredit: Randy Montoya, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A cooling unit installed on the roof of...
