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Credit: Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) We often find that food becomes rotten when we leave it outside for long and fruits turn...

A new study reveals the function of corpora amylacea to remove brain waste substances

Solving enigma in neuroscience researchCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA An article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) describes a new pathway in...

TAMEST names top rising STEM scientists of Texas in 2020 O’Donnell Award announcement

Changing the future of Alzheimer's Disease. Utilizing crystals to produce drugs for kidney stones and malaria. Understanding previously unobserved functions of our universe. And pioneering...

Respiration key to increase oxygen in the brain

Credit: Handbook of Physiology, 1892 William Morrant Baker Contrary to accepted knowledge, blood can bring more oxygen to mice brains when they exercise because the...

Mapping the energy transport mechanism of chalcogenide perovskite for solar energy use

Engineers have characterized the thermal energy conversion mechanism in the lattice of an advanced nanomaterial called chalcogenide perovskite and demonstrated its 'tunability'-- important for its...

Water management grows farm profits

Credit: Jonathan Holt A healthy lifestyle consists of a mixture of habits. Diet, exercise, sleep and other factors all must be in balance. Similarly, a...

Permanent hair dye and straighteners may increase breast cancer risk

Credit: NIEHS Scientists at the National Institutes of Health found that women who use permanent hair dye and chemical hair straighteners have a higher risk...

Teens must ‘get smart’ about social media

Warning of effects on young adolescentsCredit: Flinders University New research indicates that social media is leading young adolescent girls and boys down a worrying path...

Purdue speech-language entrepreneur elected fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Credit: Jessica Huber/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Jessica Huber, a professor in Purdue University's Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, has been elected...

NASA finds second tropical system develops in Arabian Sea

Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm 07A has developed in the eastern Arabian Sea, one day after Tropical Storm 06A developed in the western part of the...

Lack of specialists doom rural sick patients

Saint Louis University research finds higher death tolls, more hospitalizations in small town USACredit: Saint Louis University Residents of rural areas are more likely to...

Researcher receives NSF grant to study fate of terrestrial carbon in freshwater ecosystems

Credit: PhenoCam Network Carbon serves as the building block of life -- it cycles through every organism, the environment, and the atmosphere to make Earth...

NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail

This animation shows an explosive outburst of dust, ice and gases from comet 46P/Wirtanen that occurred on September 26, 2018 and dissipated over the next...

Scientists use NSF grant to understand hydrologic controls on carbon processes in wetlands

Credit: Virginia Tech Wetlands play an important role in the carbon cycle, aiding in the storage and distribution of this crucial energy resource. Now a...

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