The growing pains of orphan chimpanzees
Mothers may be shaping pre-adult growth and offspring muscle mass even without direct provisioningCredit: Liran Samuni The prolonged periods of juvenility and nutritional dependence that...
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Versatile in use — FBH semiconductor light sources
Credit: FBH/schurian.com FBH exhibits novel diode lasers and modules at Photonics West 2020. Applications include materials processing, LiDAR, medicine, and (Raman) spectroscopy. Progress in UV...
Abandoning pastures reduces the biodiversity of mountain streams
A study of 15 South Tyrolean waterways shows that the presence of extensive pastures increases biodiversity in streams and riversCredit: Eurac Research/Ivo Corrà After a...
Scientists make breakthrough in ion-conducting composite membranes
Credit: DAI Qing Chinese researchers under the direction of Profs. LI Xianfeng and ZHANG Huamin from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the...
Need to control blood sugar? There’s a drink for that, says UBC prof
Ketone supplement may control glucose by mimicking some aspects of a ketogenic dietCredit: UBC Okanagan With more people with diabetes and pre-diabetes looking for strategies...
Utilizing relativistic effects for laser fusion: A new approach for clean power
Activating relativistic effects of intense laser light in plasma, researchers at Osaka University test a new method for achieving consistent nuclear fusion, which may lead...
New ‘umbrella’ species would massively improve conservation
Credit: The University of Queensland The protection of Australia's threatened species could be improved by a factor of seven, if more efficient 'umbrella' species were...
Million Veteran Program study sheds light on genetic basis of anxiety
Largest genetic study of anxiety to date reports findingsCredit: Robert Lisak In the largest genetic study on anxiety to date, VA researchers found new evidence...
The birds and the bats: Evolving to fly may have had big effect on gut microbiome
Comparing microbiomes in 900 vertebrate species revealed that bats have guts more like birds than other mammalsCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences and mBio HIGHLIGHTS...
Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes — probably because they can fly
Credit: Holly Lutz At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and "probiotic-fortified" has become the newest health buzzword, our guts have never...
NCI-MATCH: T-DM1 shows promising activity in salivary gland cancer
Discovery in the NCI-MATCH precision medicine cancer trial is consistent with another recent trial, signaling that the data on ado-trastuzumab (T-DM1) is promising for this...
Biomarker predicts which patients with heart failure have a higher risk of dying
Credit: DEAN ISHIDA A UCLA-led study revealed a new way to predict which patients with "stable" heart failure -- those who have heart injury but...
Study links Medicaid expansion and recipients’ health status
Credit: Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine In Southern states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, adults experienced...
Ghost worms mostly unchanged since the age of dinosaurs
Credit: José Cerca, Christian Meyer, Günter Purschke, Torsten H. Struck That size, shape and structure of organisms can evolve at different speeds is well known,...
NASA finds heavy rain potential in Tropical Cyclone Blake
Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA's Aqua satellite provided a near visible image and analyzed the cloud top temperatures in Tropical Cyclone Blake, located along the...
