Coral researchers awarded EXIST start-up funding
Coral farming based on sexual propagation, leading to a more sustainable coral trade and helping to protect coral reefs – this is the goal of...
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How plants adjust their photosynthesis to changing light
Light supplies the energy plants need to build up biomass. A research team from Bergen, Bochum, Düsseldorf, Münster and Potsdam headed by Heinrich Heine University...
Barbie may help physicians, patients have more productive telehealth visits
As telehealth visits become more prevalent, physicians can sometimes struggle to help patients effectively demonstrate a musculoskeletal exam through a screen.Credit: Michigan Medicine As telehealth...
Unveiling the world’s skin: a map of global land cover from 2000-2020
A new study introduces the Hybrid Global Annual 1-km International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) Land Cover Maps for the period 2000-2020. This innovative dataset, free to...
Mediterranean marine worm has developed eyes “as big as millstones”
The Vanadis bristle worm has eyes as big as millstones – relatively speaking. Indeed, if our eyes were proportionally as big as the ones of...
Chinese Medical Journal study reviews the impact of caloric restriction on cardiovascular health
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) affecting the heart and blood vessels are a global health concern, and are known to claim millions of lives annually. In China,...
New study highlights the benefit of touch on mental and physical health
Through a large-scale analysis, researchers at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience have uncovered the ways in which consensual touch can benefit a person’s physical and...
Climate change threatens Antarctic meteorites
Using artificial intelligence, satellite observations, and climate model projections, a team of researchers from Switzerland and Belgium calculate that for every tenth of a degree...
How scientists are accelerating chemistry discoveries with automation
A new automated workflow developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has the potential to allow researchers to analyze the products of...
Key to unlocking the secret of degenerative brain disorders found
Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, along with stroke, are among the top three neurodegenerative disorders, characterized by the malfunction and progressive degeneration of neurons, the...
Stopping aspirin one month after coronary stenting procedures significantly reduces bleeding complications in heart attack patients
Withdrawing aspirin one month after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in high-risk heart patients and keeping them on ticagrelor alone safely improves outcomes and reduces major...
Successful “first in human” clinical trial of pioneering guidance for heart bypass surgery
A new approach to the guidance, planning and conduct of heart bypass surgery has been successfully tested on patients for the first time in a...
Inter-atrial shunts may benefit some heart failure patients while harming others
Inter-atrial shunts—investigational devices that create a small pathway for blood to pass from the left to the right side of the heart in order to...
A simple, inexpensive way to make carbon atoms bind together
LA JOLLA, CA—The active ingredient in many drugs is what’s known as a small molecule: bigger than water, much smaller than an antibody and mainly...
Dinosaur study challenges Bergmann’s rule
When you throw dinosaurs into the mix, sometimes you find that a rule simply isn’t.Credit: Art by James Havens When you throw dinosaurs into the...
