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,...
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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),...
Work toward a cleaner way to purify critical metals
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rare-earth elements are everywhere in modern life, found in everything from the smart device you’re reading this on to the LED lightbulbs...
The UJI and the company Semicrol launch a platform for the exchange of experimental samples that will reduce the number of animals for scientific purposes
The Universitat Jaume I of Castelló and the company Semicrol, S.L. are developing a research project with the aim of creating an innovative platform to...
New technology ‘lights up’ bacteria in wounds for better infection prevention
LOS ANGELES — Over 6.5 million Americans experience chronic wounds — wounds that do not heal after a few months. Almost all such wounds contain...
Breakthrough in the process for mass fabricating an exotic quasi-one-dimensional material
Researchers have fabricated a quasi-one-dimensional van der Waals zirconium telluride thin film, which is a form of a substance that has long promised advances in...
USTC realizes dispersion-selective band engineering in artificial kagome superlattice
A research team led by Prof. ZENG Changgan from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),...
Population genetic insights into the conservation of common walnut (Juglans regia) in Central Asia
Understanding a species’ distribution, differentiation and the factors affecting its genetic diversity is important for sustainable conservation and effective management, as well as rational utilization...
Exposure to aid early in life reduces the risk of chronic malnutrition
Children who are exposed to aid at an early age are at a lower risk of suffering from chronic malnutrition. The most notable effects come...
IOP Publishing and the Institute of Systems Engineering launch diamond OA Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering
IOP Publishing (IOPP) is partnering with the Institute of Systems Engineering (ISE), which is part of the China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), to launch...
Groundbreaking studies provide key insights into chloroplasts protein import motor
Two groundbreaking studies published in the journal Cell shed light on the assembly, function and evolutionary diversity of the chloroplast protein import system. Two groundbreaking...
New study supports annual breast cancer screening for women over 40
Women diagnosed with breast cancer who had regular screening mammograms every year were less likely to have late-stage cancer and had higher overall survival than...
How much microplastic are you drinking? New UBC tool can tell you in minutes
Micro- and nanoplastics are in our food, water and the air we breathe. They are showing up in our bodies, from testicles to brain matter....
