"Shot in the Head," a new report led by UC Berkeley researcher, adjunct professor and Oakland emergency room doctor Rohini Haar, details the life-threatening injuries that can occur when law enforcement officers deploy kinetic ...
Social Sciences
Sep 17, 2020
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Synthetic auxin products have given growers an important option for managing weed populations resistant to glyphosate and other herbicides. But according to an article featured in the journal Weed Technology, there is one ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2020
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Crews were battling wildfires in the San Francisco Bay Area and thousands of people were under orders to evacuate as dozens of wildfires blazed across the state amid a blistering heat wave now in its second week.
Environment
Aug 19, 2020
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With the number of extreme weather days rising around the globe in recent years due to global warming, it is no surprise that there has been an upward trend in hospital visits and admissions for injuries caused by high heat ...
Environment
Aug 18, 2020
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Head injuries may be worryingly common among police officers, according to a new pilot study led by the University of Exeter.
Social Sciences
Jul 20, 2020
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Biologists from the University of Bayreuth have discovered a uniquely rapid form of regeneration in injured neurons and their function in the central nervous system of zebrafish. They studies the Mauthner cells, which are ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 10, 2020
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Artificial enzymes made of treated charcoal could have the power to curtail damaging levels of superoxides, radical oxygen ions that are toxic at high concentrations.
Bio & Medicine
Jul 1, 2020
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For the past several years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers have made significant progress in development of a three-dimensional "brain-on-a-chip" device capable of recording neural ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 15, 2020
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Already known for their shape-shifting abilities, stem cells can now add "death-defying" to their list of remarkable qualities.
Cell & Microbiology
May 7, 2020
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Most electrical activity in vertebrates and invertebrates occurs at extremely low frequencies, and the origin—and medical potential—of these frequencies have eluded scientists. Now a Tel Aviv University study provides ...
Other
May 5, 2020
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