Neuroscience
Study examines experience-dependent contextual codes in the hippocampus
The hippocampus is a brain structure within the temporal lobe known to play a key role in memory and learning. The hippocampus contains neural networks that support what is known as declarative memory. This is the human ability ...
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Earth Sciences
Cave deposits show surprising shift in permafrost over the last 400,000 years
Nearly one quarter of the land in the Northern Hemisphere, amounting to some 9 million square miles, is layered with permafrost—soil, sediment, and rocks that are frozen solid for years at a time. Vast stretches of permafrost ...
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Engineering professor solves deep earthquake mystery
These mysterious earthquakes originate between 400 and 700 kilometers below the surface of the Earth and have been recorded with magnitudes up to 8.3 on the Richter scale.
Earth Sciences
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Scientists harness molecules into single quantum state
Researchers have big ideas for the potential of quantum technology, from unhackable networks to earthquake sensors. But all these things depend on a major technological feat: being able to build and control systems of quantum ...
Quantum Physics
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Team makes single photon switch advance
The ability to turn on and off a physical process with just one photon is a fundamental building block for quantum photonic technologies. Realizing this in a chip-scale architecture is important for scalability, which amplifies ...
Quantum Physics
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The Vertebrate Genomes Project introduces a new era of genome sequencing
The Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) today announces their flagship study and associated publications focused on genome assembly quality and standardization for the field of genomics. This study includes 16 diploid high-quality, ...
Biotechnology
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Satellites show world's glaciers melting faster than ever
Glaciers are melting faster, losing 31% more snow and ice per year than they did 15 years earlier, according to three-dimensional satellite measurements of all the world's mountain glaciers.
Earth Sciences
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Scientists see chemical short-range order in medium-entropy alloy
Chinese scientists have made direct observations of face-centered cubic VCoNi (medium)-entropy alloys (MEA) and for the first time proposed a convincing identification of subnanoscale chemical short-range order (CSRO). This ...
Materials Science
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Algorithm scours electronic health records to reveal hidden kidney disease
Diagnosing chronic kidney disease, which is often undetected until it causes irreversible damage, may soon become automated with a new algorithm that interprets data from electronic medical records.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Researchers develop new protocols to validate integrity of machine-learning models
Machine learning is widely used in various applications such as image recognition, autonomous vehicles and email filtering. Despite its success, concerns about the integrity and security of a model's predictions and accuracy ...
Machine learning & AI
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Medical Xpress
Algorithm scours electronic health records to reveal hidden kidney disease
Researchers develop new smell test for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and COVID-19
Childhood psychiatric symptom risk strongly linked to adverse exposures during gestation
Using nanobodies to block a tick-borne bacterial infection
Scientists create first-of-its-kind 3D organoid model of the human pancreas
Draining brain's debris enhances Alzheimer's therapies in mice
Childhood air pollution exposure linked to poor mental health at age 18
Male bladder cancer vulnerability could lead to a new treatment approach
Boarding back-to-front on planes increases COVID-19 infection risk
Ageing impairs critical final egg maturation stage
How B cells fight the COVID-19 virus
Gender-affirming surgeries improve mental health in young, study says
Researchers develop 20-minute saliva-based COVID-19 test
Dynamic changes in early childhood development may lead to changes in autism diagnosis
Preclinical discovery triggers wound healing, skin regeneration
Study shows how lockdown has increased mental health difficulties for vulnerable children
Study shows pancreatic cancer cells reverse to advance malignancy
Tech Xplore
Researchers develop new protocols to validate integrity of machine-learning models
Neurable introduces brain-computer interface headphones
Why some electric car owners revert back to buying gasoline-powered vehicles
Shhhh, they're listening—inside the coming voice-profiling revolution
Developing the world's 'hottest' heat pump
Dead lithium: The culprit of low Coulombic efficiency with LIBs
Paving the way for new light-powered devices
Five new EVs to wait for in 2021
Socially just population policies can mitigate climate change and advance global equity
Socially just policies aimed at limiting the Earth's human population hold tremendous potential for advancing equity while simultaneously helping to mitigate the effects of climate change, Oregon State University researchers ...
Environment
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Breakthrough purification of fossil pollen using a new large-particle on-chip sorter
Particle sorting is fundamental to biological and medical research, although existing methods are unable to sort large-sized particles via high-throughput sorting. In a new report, Y. Kasai and a research team in Japan, Germany ...
Neurable introduces brain-computer interface headphones
The neurotechnology company Neurable has revealed plans for brain-computer interface (BCI) headphones, similar to previous products designed to learn from human movement and predict intent.
People of color hardest hit by air pollution from nearly all sources
Various studies show that people of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution in the United States. However, it was unclear whether this unequal exposure is due mainly to a few types of emission sources or whether ...
Social Sciences
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Soil bacteria evolve with climate change
While evolution is normally thought of as occurring over millions of years, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that bacteria can evolve in response to climate change in 18 months. In a study ...
Evolution
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Quasi-periodic dipping detected in an ultraluminous X-ray source
Astronomers have performed a timing analysis of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 247 ULX-1 using ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft. The study detected quasi-periodic dipping in the X-ray light curve of this source. The finding ...
Uncertainty of future Southern Ocean carbon dioxide uptake cut in half
The Southern Ocean dominates the oceanic uptake of human-made CO2. But how much carbon dioxide can it actually absorb in the future? This long-standing question remained unresolved as projections of different generation of ...
Environment
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Inactive oil wells could be big source of methane emissions
Uncapped, idle oil wells could be leaking millions of kilograms of methane each year into the atmosphere and surface water, according to a study by the University of Cincinnati.
Environment
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A pioneering study: Plant roots act like a drill
In an interdisciplinary research project carried out at Tel Aviv University, researchers from the School of Plant Sciences affiliated with the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences collaborated with their colleagues from ...
Plants & Animals
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Research on Lake Victoria cichlids uncovers the processes of rapid species adaptation
Biologists use the term "adaptive radiation" to describe a phenomenon in which new species rapidly evolve from an ancestral species, often in response to changes in the local environment that lead to new biological niches ...
Plants & Animals
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Researchers investigate structural changes in snap-frozen proteins
Researchers at the University of Bonn and the Research Center caesar have succeeded in ultra-fast freezing proteins after a precisely defined period of time. They were able to follow structural changes on the microsecond ...
In Florida, a worrying uptick in manatee deaths
Baby manatee Lativa was so sick that her caregivers had to put a flotation device on her to allow her to come to the surface to breathe.
Researchers develop tool to track marine litter polluting the ocean
In an effort to fight the millions of tons of marine litter floating in the ocean, Florida State University researchers have developed a new virtual tool to track this debris.
Improving the way vets care for animals and people
Veterinarians, pet owners and breeders often have preconceived notions about each other, but by investigating these biases, experts at the University of Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine hope to improve both human communication ...
El Nino can help predict cacao harvests up to two years in advance
When seasonal rains arrive late in Indonesia, farmers often take it as a sign that it is not worth investing in fertilizer for their crops. Sometimes they opt out of planting annual crops altogether. Generally, they're making ...
New frontier for 3D printing develops state-of-the-art soft materials able to self-heal
The scientific community is focusing its research into the multiple applications of hydrogels, polymeric materials which contain a large amount of water, that have the potential to reproduce the features of biological tissues. ...
Ivory Coast sounds alarm over plunging elephant population
Elephants face extinction in Ivory Coast where they are a national emblem, with numbers decreasing by half in the past 30 years, the country's water and foresty ministry said Wednesday.
Astronaut Michael Collins, Apollo 11 pilot, dead of cancer
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic first steps on the lunar surface, died Wednesday. He was 90.
In wild soil, predatory bacteria grow faster than their prey
Predatory bacteria—bacteria that eat other bacteria—grow faster and consume more resources than non-predators in the same soil, according to a new study out this week from Northern Arizona University. These active predators, ...
Space tourism—20 years in the making—is finally ready for launch
For most people, getting to the stars is nothing more than a dream. On April 28, 2001, Dennis Tito achieved that lifelong goal—but he wasn't a typical astronaut. Tito, a wealthy businessman, paid US$20 million for a seat ...
Preprints: How draft academic papers have become essential in the fight against COVID
Since the first reported case of COVID-19, cities across the world have shut down, people have stopped socializing and going to work, economies have taken a hit and there have been far too many deaths. But at the same time ...
Climate-friendly farming strategies can improve the land and generate income for farmers
Agriculture has not been a central part of U.S. climate policy in the past, even though climate change is altering weather patterns that farmers rely on. Now, however, President Biden has directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
Forest measuring satellite passes tests with flying colors
With challenges imposed by the COVID pandemic, engineers building and testing ESA's Biomass satellite have had to come up with some clever working methods to keep on track whilst adhering to safety rules. The result is that ...
The science of picky shoppers
There are hard-to-please customers in almost every industry, with certain people being picky about which clothes, houses and even romantic partners they will consider.
Business school research is broken—here's how to fix it
Researchers from Erasmus School of Economics, IESE Business School, and New York University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines what business schools do wrong when conducting academic research ...
Low-income blocks in 92% of US urban communities have less tree cover and are hotter
A new analysis of thousands of U.S. communities finds that, on average, low-income urban blocks have less tree cover and are hotter than high-income blocks. Robert McDonald of The Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia, ...
Human antibiotic use threatens endangered wild chimpanzees
It's well established that infectious disease is the greatest threat to the endangered chimpanzees made famous by the field studies of Jane Goodall at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Now, new research led by scientists at ...
Geographers draw up full inventory of barely researched icing fields
Seasonally occurring fields of aufeis (icing) constitute an important resource for the water supply of the local population in the Upper Indus Basin. However, little research has been done on them so far. Geographers at the ...
Research gives trees an edge in landfill clean-up
A research team from the USDA Forest Service and the University of Missouri has developed a new contaminant prioritization tool that has the potential to increase the effectiveness of environmental approaches to landfill ...
Bone collagen of fish shows individual history of migration and feeding habits
Collagen is a protein found widely in almost all cells of animals, and scientifically can be used to learn much about an animal's life history including human being in the present or in the past. Scientists at the Research ...
