Rain or shine? How rainfall impacts size of sea turtle hatchlings
Female sea turtles lay their eggs, cover the nest with sand and then return to the ocean, leaving them to develop and hatch on their...
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Aging population: Public willingness to pay for healthcare hinges on perceived benefits and risks
Healthcare is undoubtedly crucial for everyone. As individuals age, the risk for health issues and related expenses increases. Consequently, many countries have universal healthcare systems,...
In-person contact linked with lower levels of loneliness in older adults
EMBARGO UNTIL 6 A.M. EST, WEDNESDAY AUG. 28, 2024. EMBARGO UNTIL 6 A.M. EST, WEDNESDAY AUG. 28, 2024. In-person contact helps lead to lower...
Researchers develop novel organic redox-active molecules for flow batteries
Organic redox-active molecules (ORAMs) are abundant and diverse, offering significant potential for cost-effective and sustainable energy storage, particularly in aqueous organic flow batteries (AOFBs). However,...
Bats are surviving and thriving on nothing but sugar
KANSAS CITY, MO—August 28, 2024—Humans must regulate blood sugar concentrations to stay healthy and to fuel our cells. Too little or too much can cause...
What role did fear play in Europe’s population growth?
– Since the end of the last Ice Age, growth of human population was far from uniform, marked instead by periods of rapid expansion followed by...
U of A College of Nursing receives $1.6M grant to support Indigenous students
Indigenous students pursuing nursing careers at the University of Arizona College of Nursing will benefit from additional financial support thanks to a $1.6 million grant from the...
Moths may use disco gene to regulate day/night cycles
How does one species become two? If you’re a biologist, that’s a loaded question. The consensus is that, in most cases, the process of speciation...
Mizzou researchers explore solutions to help reduce nurse burnout
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Even before the coronavirus pandemic, high rates of burnout and staffing shortages plagued the nursing industry, primarily because of the stressful demands...
Defining chronic pain for high-performance athletes with disabilities
With the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games just around the corner, the extensive training and the sacrifices athletes make to compete at the games take centre...
Making MRI more globally accessible: how metamaterials offer affordable, high-impact solutions
By allowing clinicians to look noninvasively inside the human body, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become a mainstay of injury and disease detection and treatment...
Prenatal smoking risks academic achievement of unborn babies
Smoking harms almost every part of your body. But if you smoke when pregnant, the toxic chemicals in tobacco will also harm your unborn baby,...
Quantum researchers publish ‘exciting’ particle prediction
Bruno Uchoa, a professor of condensed matter physics, and Hong-yi Xie, a postdoctoral fellow in condensed matter physics at the University of Oklahoma, have published...
Discovery gives answers to parents of children with rare disease
Shortly after Kelly Cervantes’ daughter Adelaide was born, she started having terrible seizures. Doctors were unable to give her a solution, or even a cause....
Shaping the future of extracellular vesicles: Exploring the critical roles of microbiota and mitochondria in health and therapeutics at the first world conference on targeting extracellular vesicles
The World Mitochondria Society (WMS) and the International Society of Microbiota (ISM) are proud to announce the First World Conference on Targeting Extracellular Vesicles (EVs),...
