Neuroscience
Study shows that memories pass through many transformation stages as they are encoded
Memory, the human ability to recall things that happened in the past, is one of the topics most widely investigated by neuroscientists and psychologists. Past studies have collected extensive evidence suggesting that memory ...
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HIV & AIDS
A page from the COVID therapy playbook: Unleashing a flood of neutralizing antibodies against HIV
For more than 40 years a goal that too often has proved elusive is a pharmaceutical defeat of the human immunodeficiency virus—HIV. And the thrust in recent years has emphasized bringing newer, stealthier weapons to the ...
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Bezos' Blue Origin announces plans for private space station
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Monday announced it wants to launch a space station that will house up to 10 people in the second half of the decade, as the race to commercialize the cosmos heats up.
Space Exploration
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Study finds nearly 500 ancient ceremonial sites in southern Mexico
A team of international researchers led by the University of Arizona reported last year that they had uncovered the largest and oldest Maya monument—Aguada Fénix. That same team has now uncovered nearly 500 smaller ceremonial ...
Archaeology
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Variability of blazar J1415+1320 investigated by researchers
Astronomers have used the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) to probe a blazar known as J1415+1320. Results of the study deliver essential information regarding the variability of this peculiar source. The research was detailed in ...
Scientists make breakthrough in understanding how penicillin works
The mechanism which allows β-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin, to kill MRSA has been revealed for the first time.
Molecular & Computational biology
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Sharpest images ever reveal the patchy face of living bacteria
The sharpest images ever of living bacteria have been recorded by UCL researchers, revealing the complex architecture of the protective layer that surrounds many bacteria and makes them harder to be killed by antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
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Urgent action is needed to reduce uncertainty on carbon dioxide storage prospects, researchers warn
An urgent increase in policy support and investment would be needed for carbon capture and storage (CCS) to achieve the scale needed to meet global decarbonisation goals, according to University of Queensland and Princeton ...
Environment
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New study finds black spruce trees struggling to regenerate amid more frequent arctic fires
A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), finds that black spruce trees—a key species on the boreal landscape for millennia—are losing their resilience and capacity to regenerate ...
Ecology
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Artificial intelligence sheds light on how the brain processes language
In the past few years, artificial intelligence models of language have become very good at certain tasks. Most notably, they excel at predicting the next word in a string of text; this technology helps search engines and ...
Neuroscience
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Medical Xpress
Deterioration of brain cells in Parkinson's disease is slowed by blocking the Bach1 protein, preclinical study shows
Three teens with COVID-19 developed sudden severe psychiatric symptoms. Why?
COVID pandemic may have driven a flu strain into extinction
Research finds higher disease protection in fat cells in females
Men, women ride the same emotional roller coaster
How cancer cells engineer macrophages to support cancer growth
A new approach to treating leukemia
March Madness: Temporary increase in COVID-19 cases in counties where universities played in NCAA Tournament
Evidence suggests SARS-CoV-2 virus attacks brain endothelial cells
New study helps those with depression pick antidepressant based on health history
People suffering from loneliness make more physician visits, study shows
Infection with COVID carries much higher risk of developing neurological complications than vaccine, says new study
Why are cases of pancreatic cancer rising in young women?
SARS-CoV-2 disrupts timing of immune response
Traffic and mobile phone data predict COVID case counts in rural Pennsylvania
Tech Xplore
A strategy to directly modulate the second-order optical susceptibility of monolayer molybdenum ditelluride
Predicting how changes in production, materials impact EV battery life
Toyota testing hydrogen combustion engines in race cars
Hertz orders 100,000 Tesla electric autos
A more efficient and sustainable battery for a more 'electrified' society
Perovskite solar cells with atomically coherent interlayers on SnO₂ electrodes
Tough car emissions ceilings could get us well on the road to net zero
Here's how Indonesia could get to zero emission in its energy sector by 2050
One plus one does not equal two: Research team investigates receptors that form pairs on the surface of cells
There are a number of G protein-coupled receptors in human cells. As an important component of the cell membrane, these proteins are responsible for detecting different stimuli in the surroundings of a cell within the body ...
Biochemistry
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Urban areas across the US are undercounting greenhouse gas emissions
Methane emissions from the distribution and use of natural gas across U.S. cities are 2 to 10 times higher than recent estimates from the Environmental Protect Agency, according to a new study from the Harvard John A. Paulson ...
Earth Sciences
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Deterioration of brain cells in Parkinson's disease is slowed by blocking the Bach1 protein, preclinical study shows
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative movement disorder, afflicting more than 10 million people worldwide and more than one million Americans. While there is no cure for PD, current therapies focus ...
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
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Clues from the ancient past can help predict abrupt climate change
Climate 'tipping points' can be better understood and predicted using climate change data taken from the ancient past, new research shows.
Earth Sciences
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Distributed protocol underpinning cloud computing automatically determined safe and secure
In an important step toward ensuring the protocols that dictate how our networked services operate are safe, secure and running as expected, University of Michigan researchers have automated a technique called formal verification.
Computer Sciences
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Researcher advances understanding of how the nervous system controls organs
An international team of researchers, led by University of Houston Cullen Endowed Professor of biomedical engineering Mario Romero-Ortega, has progressed electroceutical research for treatment of diseases including rheumatoid ...
Neuroscience
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Three teens with COVID-19 developed sudden severe psychiatric symptoms. Why?
Suicidal thoughts, "paranoia-like fears," delusions and "foggy brain" have been identified in three adolescents who had mild or asymptomatic COVID-19. Now, a new study into their immune responses identifies a potential mechanism ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
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Ammonia synthesis by mechanocatalysis in a ball mill
A breakthrough in the fight against hunger, three Nobel Prizes, and 150 million tonnes of annual production—yet still a tricky topic for research: For over 100 years, the chemical industry has been using the Haber-Bosch ...
Materials Science
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New discovery about diabetes may reduce the risk of organ failure
A new research result from Aarhus University and the Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus has identified how diabetes affects stem cells residing in muscle to form fat and connective tissue. According to the researchers, the discovery ...
Diabetes
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Call-and-response circuit tells neurons when to grow synapses
Brain cells called astrocytes play a key role in helping neurons develop and function properly, but there's still a lot scientists don't understand about how astrocytes perform these important jobs. Now, a team of scientists ...
Neuroscience
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Researchers identify new threat to American chestnut trees
For lumber companies, the American chestnut was a nearly perfect tree—tall, straight, rot-resistant and easy to split. It also was prolific, sending up new shoots that grew quickly.
Study explores how climate change may affect rain in U.S. Corn Belt
Air humidity is more important than soil moisture in influencing whether it rains in the United States Corn Belt, an agricultural area in the Midwest, stretching from Indiana to Nebraska and responsible for more than 35% ...
The human GID complex engages two independent modules for substrate recruitment
A new paper by the Peter group of the ETH Zurich's Institute of Biochemistry (IBC) finds that the human GID E3 ubiquitin ligase forms a tetrameric complex with two distinct substrate-recruitment modules, namely WDR26-RanBP9 ...
Biophysics analysis made easy with an online tool
EMBL Hamburg's García Alai Team has released eSPC, a freely available online platform for analyzing molecular biophysics data from a range of experimental techniques. The tool enables scientists around the world to easily ...
Sloshing electrons in a charge density wave
In the latest edition of Physical Review B, UvA Ph.D. candidate Xuanbo Feng (QuSoft and IoP) and colleagues write about their recent experiments on a material that can go from a normal metal state to a more exotic state known ...
Aquatic fungus has already wiped amphibians off the map and now threatens survival of terrestrial frogs
A water-borne fungus that has led to the extinction of several species of amphibians that spend all or part of their life cycle in water is also threatening terrestrial amphibians. In Brazil, researchers supported by FAPESP ...
Latest climate plans don't dent emissions: UN assessment
The latest round of national emissions cutting plans submitted under the Paris Agreement will make no material dent in short-term carbon pollution levels and still put Earth on course to warm 2.7C, the UN said Monday.
Endangered whale population sinks close to 20-year low
A type of whale that is one of the rarest marine mammals in the world lost nearly 10% of its population last year, a group of scientists and ocean life advocates said on Monday.
After drought, US west coast slammed by 'bomb cyclone'
Severe thunderstorms bringing record rainfall hit northern California on Monday, following several months of gigantic forest fires caused by drought.
Scientists reveal genetic secrets of stress-tolerant mangrove trees
Mangrove trees straddle the boundary between land and ocean, in harsh environments characterized by rapidly changing levels of salinity and low oxygen. For most plants, these conditions would mark a death sentence, but mangroves ...
A compound with a laser-induced 'switching' of biological activity
Scientists at St Petersburg University together with researchers from St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) and the Scientific Research Centre for Ecological Safety of the Russian ...
Trigonopterus corona, the new species of tiny beetle named after the coronavirus
Many curious animals can be found on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi—such as the deer-hog and the midget buffalo. But the island's tropical forests hide a diversity of tiny insects that still remains largely unexplored. ...
Mapping the path to carbon neutrality
Ahead of COP26 in Glasgow, the University of Surrey has published a paper in Sustainability detailing how it will reduce its carbon emissions and reach Net-Zero by 2030. In the paper, Surrey's researchers share ideas and ...
Insect digestive enzyme activates sugar-containing plant defence substance
Plants are not entirely at the mercy of their herbivore enemies. Often, chemical defenses ensure that the plants are inedible, or even toxic, and as a result insects and other hungry animals steer clear of them. A new study ...
The underestimated impact of vapor pressure deficit on terrestrial carbon cycle
This study is led by Dr. Bin He (College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University) and Dr. Wenping Yuan (School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University). Terrestrial ecosystem, as a major ...
White flight may still enforce segregation
As the population of people of color grows across the United States, white Americans are still prone to move when neighborhoods diversify, and their fears and stereotypical beliefs about other racial and ethnic groups may ...
NASA's uncrewed Artemis moon mission set to launch in February
NASA's uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the moon is on track to launch in February, the U.S. space agency said.
Negotiators edge closer to global carbon market deal at COP26
Nations are edging toward a deal that could create a global carbon market when they meet in Scotland for COP26 climate talks in about a week, after Brazil signaled it's willing to compromise.
Australia's 'underclass' don't like work? Our research shows vulnerable job seekers don't get the help they need
Former NSW minister Pru Goward wrote a column in the Australian Financial Review last week about Australia's "underclass," who she says are lazy, dysfunctional and don't like the "discipline" of work.
Study discovers links to Bernard Williams' 40-year-old "slosh" hypothesis
Syringomyelia is a spinal cord disease characterized by fluid-filled cavities within the spinal cord tissue, which was first described over 400 years ago. However, the mechanism by which these cavities are formed is still ...
