Astronomy
Astronomers find final missing piece of galaxy cluster collision puzzle
Astronomers have a model of how galaxy cluster collisions go through different stages, taking on various shapes. A blunt body shape turns into a sharp cone, which turns into a tongue-like shape. The first and last have been ...
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NASA's next-generation asteroid impact monitoring system goes online
To date, nearly 28,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) have been found by survey telescopes that continually scan the night sky, adding new discoveries at a rate of about 3,000 per year. But as larger and more advanced survey ...
Planetary Sciences
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Concurrent control over sequence and dispersity in multiblock copolymers
The group at Polymeric Materials has developed a simple way to regulate both dispersity and sequence in highly complex multiblock copolymers, and the results have been published in Nature Chemistry.
Polymers
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Researchers create contamination test for dairy products, using technology that can be printed inside containers
Researchers have developed a test to reveal bacterial contamination in dairy products well before they have a chance to reach anyone's lips.
Bio & Medicine
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Doctors find tooth growing inside a patient's nose
A 38-year-old male patient complaining of difficulty breathing through one of his nostrils for several years was found to have an ectopic tooth growing in his nose. In their paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine ...
Grape seed extract found to extend lifespan of old mice
A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in China and the U.S. has found that injecting procyanidin C1 (PCC1), a chemical found in grape seed extract, into older mice extended their lifespan. In their ...
Study supports flexible second dose options following Pfizer or Oxford/AstraZeneca jabs
Following up first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines with second doses of the Moderna or Novavax jabs will generate robust immune responses against COVID-19, according to researchers running the ...
Vaccination
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Computer scientists develop a framework to protect browsers from zero-day vulnerabilities in third-party libraries
Researchers from the University of California San Diego, the University of Texas at Austin, and Mozilla have designed a new framework, called RLBox, to make the Firefox browser more secure. Mozilla has started deploying RLBox ...
Computer Sciences
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How SARS-CoV-2 evades the immune system
Researchers in Japan and the United States have found SARS-CoV-2 can knock out an important molecular pathway linked to an immune complex called MHC class I. The finding should help scientists better understand how COVID-19 ...
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Medical Xpress
Grape seed extract found to extend lifespan of old mice
People with schizophrenia five times more likely to die from COVID-19
COVID-19 vaccine effective in people with cancer
Indonesian study reveals missed diagnosis of fungal infections in treated TB patients
Omicron variant is likely everywhere while delta cases are on the rise
US drug prices are costing us more than we think
How SARS-CoV-2 evades the immune system
Biomarker discovery makes early detection of high-risk COVID-19 patients possible
New method to model bladder cancer treatments
Is foam rolling effective for muscle pain and flexibility? The science isn't so sure
Can antiviral agents help immune systems fight mosquito-borne dengue?
Half of women over 35 who want a child don't end up having one, or have fewer than they planned
Ventilation is critical to battling COVID
COVID-19 pandemic underlines link between health-harming behaviors and communicable diseases
Infectious disease specialist urges vaccinations to combat COVID-19 variants
Role of social entrepreneurship in obesity prevention
Most adolescents dying by suicide or harming themselves are known to health services
Study explores how marijuana affects workouts
Falls in care homes can be significantly reduced with intervention
Self-administered cognition test predicts early signs of dementia sooner
Tech Xplore
Algorithms are making many of your decisions, and you might be OK with that
SEIHAI: The hierarchical AI that won the NeurIPS-2020 MineRL competition
Battery 'dream technology' is a step closer to reality with new discovery
Sodium-based material yields stable alternative to lithium-ion batteries
Generating a realistic 3D world
New 'Halo' game debuts as Xbox turns 20
SEIHAI: The hierarchical AI that won the NeurIPS-2020 MineRL competition
In recent years, computational tools based on reinforcement learning have achieved remarkable results in numerous tasks, including image classification and robotic object manipulation. Meanwhile, computer scientists have ...
Study explores phase transitions in a confining dark sector using QCD simulations
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Ohio state University recently carried out a study examining the possible effects of a first-order phase transition in a confining ...
Iron integral to the development of life on Earth and the possibility of life on other planets
Iron is an essential nutrient that almost all life requires to grow and thrive. Iron's importance goes all the way back to the formation of the planet Earth, where the amount of iron in the Earth's rocky mantle was 'set' ...
Astrobiology
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Study investigates young low-mass stellar population of NGC 1893, detects over 100 new stars
Using the Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT), Indian astronomers have observed a young star cluster known as NGC 1893. The observational campaign allowed the researchers to investigate hundreds of young low-mass stars in the ...
Sodium-based material yields stable alternative to lithium-ion batteries
University of Texas at Austin researchers have created a new sodium-based battery material that is highly stable, capable of recharging as quickly as a traditional lithium-ion battery and able to pave the way toward delivering ...
Energy & Green Tech
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Studying cosmic expansion using methods from many-body physics
It is almost always assumed in cosmological calculations that there is a even distribution of matter in the universe. This is because the calculations would be much too complicated if the position of every single star were ...
General Physics
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European governments struggled to manage pandemic well, finds 3-country study
European governments have struggled to manage the pandemic well and maintain public trust, finds an analysis of the handling of the COVID-19 crisis by Germany, Sweden, and the UK, published in the open access journal BMJ ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Battery 'dream technology' is a step closer to reality with new discovery
A sodium-sulfur battery created by engineers at The University of Texas at Austin solves one of the biggest hurdles that has held back the technology as a commercially viable alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion batteries ...
Energy & Green Tech
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NASA's 10 new astronauts: pilots, doctor, physicist, cyclist
NASA selected 10 new astronauts Monday, half of them military pilots, as it looks ahead to the moon and Mars.
Space Exploration
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CRISPRing the microbiome is just around the corner
To date, CRISPR enzymes have been used to edit the genomes of one type of cell at a time: They cut, delete or add genes to a specific kind of cell within a tissue or organ, for example, or to one kind of microbe growing in ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Labour migration brings greater inequality to rural life in Norway
Income differences in small Norwegian towns have increased since 2004, when several former Eastern Bloc countries joined the EU.
Employment outcomes worse in states restricting criminal records-based discrimination
Many states have enacted polices to prohibit employers from discriminating against people with criminal records. Yet fathers living in states with more of these policy protections in place were less likely to be working than ...
Heroes or victims? Public perception of essential workers in the pandemic
Essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic have been praised—and rightfully so—as heroes since the very beginning of this global crisis. But how are they faring? Does the perception of essential workers ...
Report finds every worker who had a work-from-home experience wants to convert to flexible working
While most workplaces acknowledge that they need to offer hybrid working, very few have a strategy to implement it to maximize productivity and worker wellbeing.
Mount Semeru's deadly eruption was triggered by rain and storms, making it much harder to predict
The eruption of Mount Semeru in Indonesia on Saturday tragically claimed the lives of 22 people, with another 22 still missing and 56 injured. More than 5,000 people have been affected by the eruption, and more than 2,000 ...
Report points way to a more resilient UK food system
Government, the food industry, financial investors, charities and researchers all have a key role to play in securing the food system into the future—according to the results of a five-year research program.
Airbus will build ESA's Ariel exoplanet satellite
ESA and Airbus have signed a contract to move forward with the design and construction of the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, Ariel, planned for launch in 2029.
Collecting and mapping carbon benefits of wind power, silviculture and peatlands
While renewable energy is needed, wind turbines cannot, for example, be built too close to residential areas due to noise and landscape factors. Then again, erecting turbines in uninhabited areas makes nature more fragmented ...
Protein structural dynamics underlie their evolution and adaptability over the centuries
"How does nature utilize the common repertoire of folds in proteins to differentiate their specificity, and ultimately their function?" This long-standing and fundamental question was addressed in a study conducted at the ...
Violent crime is rising. What can cities do?
In 2019, following a years-long decline, crime rates were flat or at all-time lows nationwide. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and a very different pattern emerged. Though major crimes dropped overall, violent crime surged. ...
Dismantling anti-Black racism in our schools: Accountability measures are key
Education is built on the belief that people can be more. In the words of the 20th-century American sociologist and writer W.E.B. DuBois, an important anti-racist leader and figure in the development of African American education, ...
We are professional fire watchers, and we're astounded by the scale of fires in remote Australia right now
While southern Australia experienced a wet winter and a soggy spring, northern Australia has seen the opposite. Extreme fire weather in October and November led to bushfires across 120,000 square kilometers of southern savanna ...
How much meat do we eat? New figures show six countries have hit their peak
Eating meat comes with an enormous environmental footprint, with food systems responsible for an estimated 34% of global emissions. And yet, in most countries, meat consumption is continuing to rise.
Post-pandemic widening of inequalities for children in the North of England
A major new report paints a stark picture of widening inequalities for children in the North of England which cost billions, increase poverty and cost children's lives.
Floods are going to get worse, and we need to start preparing for them now
For many, 2021 was the year of the flood. From Canada to India, and across western Europe and Australia, this year's deluges have led to hundreds of deaths, enormous financial costs and immeasurable suffering.
How satellite collars are paving the way for smarter saiga antelope conservation
"It is hard now to even imagine how we could protect saiga without the use of satellite telemetry," says Albert Salemgareyev from the Association for the Conservation of Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK), in-country partner ...
Novel numerical model simulates folding in Earth's crust throughout the earthquake cycle
Earth's crust is constantly in motion. As tectonic plates that make up the lithosphere shift, pulling apart and crashing into each other, the crust fractures and folds in response. Both faulting and folding play out at fault-bend ...
Researchers call for standards for biological imaging
Stained molecules in the cell nucleus, the inner life of a synaptic cleft, or the surface of a floral leaf: Modern microscopes enable researchers to examine processes that are otherwise invisible and located in tiniest structures ...
Image: James Webb Space Telescope fueled for launch
The James Webb Space Telescope was fueled inside the payload preparation facility at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of its launch on Ariane 5.
Thousands of turtles lay eggs on Nicaraguan coast
Thousands of sea turtles laid their eggs on Nicaragua's coast over the weekend under the watchful eye of the army, which protects the nests from possible predators—including humans.
