What it’s like to live without a sense of smell
Credit: University of East Anglia The smell of cut grass, freshly baked bread, childhood memories, lost loved ones, Christmas. What happens when it's all gone?...
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Light at the end of the tunnel for most individuals with low-vision
Vision loss after damage to the retina, optic nerve or brain is in part reversible, reports a special issue of Restorative Neurology and NeuroscienceCredit: University...
Genetic identification of human remains from the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship
A research team at the UPV/EHU is working to optimise genetic analyses for identifying victims who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent...
University of Miami study explores cognitive function in people with mental illness
Credit: University of Miami Health System A study funded by the Veterans Administration and directed by researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of...
Is it time to stop ringing the cancer bell?
Patients who celebrate the end of cancer treatment by ringing a bell report more stressful memories of treatment than those who finish silentlyCredit: International Journal...
Sustainability claims about rubber don’t stick
Research led by the University of Göttingen calls into question sustainability claims by large corporationCredit: F. Otten, University of Göttingen Many companies work hard to...
Scientists take the first step towards extending the Standard Model in physics
Researchers calculated previously unexplored effects in atomsCredit: Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration with...
Mapping the path of climate change
A probabilistic framework is used to understand how climate change progresses under the influence of the greenhouse effect and other factorsCredit: Yayun Zheng WASHINGTON, January...
Signals from inside the Earth: Borexino experiment releases new data on geoneutrinos
Credit: Copyright: Borexino Collaboration Scientists involved in the Borexino collaboration have presented new results for the measurement of neutrinos originating from the interior of the...
Neutron source enables a look inside dino eggs
Did oviraptoridchicks hatch at the same time? Researchers at the University of Bonn and the TU Munich provide presumptive evidenceCredit: © Chien-Hsing Lee/Tzu-Ruei Yang/Thomas Engler...
Acousto-optic modulation of photonic bound state in the continuum
Credit: by Zejie Yu and Xiankai Sun Harnessing bound states in the continuum (BICs) in photonic integrated circuits (PICs) allows for low-loss light guidance and...
Potential way to halt blinding macular degeneration identified
Scientists find unexpected connection between 2 main forms of AMDCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Researchers have successfully treated age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in mice...
Brewing a better espresso, with a shot of math
Credit: Five Senses Coffee (Australia) Mathematicians, physicists, and materials experts might not spring to mind as the first people to consult about whether you are...
Residues in fingerprints hold clues to their age
Credit: Adapted from Analytical Chemistry 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b04765 Police have long relied on the unique whorls, loops or arches encoded in fingerprints to identify suspects....
Community-based counselors help mitigate grief among children orphaned in East Africa
Credit: Ace Africa A first-of-its-kind clinical trial involving more than 600 children in Kenya and Tanzania, in which community members were trained to deliver mental...
