‘Alarmingly high’ vitamin D deficiency in the United Kingdom
Credit: University of South Australia Over 50 per cent of Asians living in the UK are severely deficient in vitamin D, leaving them more vulnerable...
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Survivors of child abuse twice as likely to die young
Credit: University of South Australia Globally the statistics are daunting. Across countries and communities between 15 and 50 per cent of children are subject to...
Creating a ground plan for stonefly evolution
Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba find that differences in egg structure among stonefly species can provide insight into the evolutionary history of the...
Sights set on curbing gun crime
Sub-culture and supply fuel drug-related violence: studyCredit: Flinders University A community or sub-culture encouraging young men's exposure and obsession with guns - as well as...
Do tumors stiff-arm the immune system?
An old dog with new tricksCredit: Alan Herbert In a paper just published in the Journal for the Immunotherapy of Cancer (doi:10.1136/jitc-2020-001712), Dr Herbert, Head...
Costs, COVID-19 risk and delays top older adults’ concerns about seeking emergency care
Findings could help hospitals improve emergency department care and follow-up for people aged 50 to 80Credit: University of Michigan Even before the pandemic, older Americans...
COVID-19 preprint data rapidly influenced critical care practice
Credit: ATS Dec. 15, 2020-- In a new research letter published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine,...
Wireless, ultra-thin and battery-free strain sensors that are 10 times more sensitive
Credit: National University of Singapore A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Assistant Professor Chen Po-Yen, has taken the first...
Earable computing: A new research area in the making
Credit: Romit Roy Choudhury, The Grainger College of Engineering CSL's Systems and Networking Research Group (SyNRG) is defining a new sub-area of mobile technology that...
Proteins enable crop-infecting fungi to ‘smell’ food
Humans use same proteins to smell, taste, and seeCredit: Vincent Wu/JGI New research shows the same proteins that enable human senses such as smell also...
Researchers use origami to solve space travel challenge
Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. -- WSU researchers have used the ancient Japanese art of paper folding to possibly solve a key challenge for outer space...
Structural racism severely impacts the health of foreign-born Blacks and Latinx
New study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine highlights the magnitude of the disparities in health of racial/ethnic minorities and immigrants in the United...
Purdue researchers uncover blind spots at the intersection of AI and neuroscience
Findings debunk dozens of prominent published papers claiming to read minds with EEGCredit: Chris Adam/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Is it possible to read...
What makes human intelligence exceptional? The answer may be hidden inside this game
Scientists launch hexxed - a free mobile game designed to map human intelligence across the globeCredit: Marta Correia. The Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. Portugal....
Recovery of an endangered Caribbean coral from parrotfish predation
Coral tissue loss was driven by a few exceptionally large predation scars, but 87% of scars were small and likely to fully healCredit: Hannah Rempel...