Quantum Physics
Antiferromagnetic hybrids achieve important functionality for spintronic applications
Antiferromagnets have zero net magnetization and are insensitive to external magnetic field perturbations. Antiferromagnetic spintronic devices hold great promise for creating future ultra-fast and energy-efficient information ...
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Cell & Microbiology
Researchers investigate effects of tau proteins on microtubules within nerve cells
The tau protein is an important factor linked to the development of human neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. Yet there is still much we do not know about tau and other similar proteins. The most recent ...
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Biologists track DNA 'parasites' in the hunt for disease treatments
They are considered "parasitic genes." Even though they comprise over half of human DNA, much remains to be learned about them. Now University of California, Irvine biologists offer ...
They are considered "parasitic genes." Even though they comprise over half of human DNA, much remains to be learned about them. Now University of California, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Nitrous oxide emissions from Corn Belt soils spike when soils freeze and thaw
Nitrous oxide may be much less abundant in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, but as a greenhouse gas, it's a doozy. With a potency 300 times greater than CO2, nitrous oxide's warming potential, especially via agriculture, ...
Earth Sciences
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Study of ancient skulls sheds light on human interbreeding with Neandertals
Research has established that there are traces of Neandertal DNA in the genome of modern humans. Now an exploratory study that assessed the facial structure of prehistoric skulls is offering new insights, and supports the ...
Archaeology
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A strategy to improve perovskite absorbers for all-perovskite tandem solar cells
Tandem solar cells (TSCs), stacks of p-n junctions based on semiconductors with different bandgaps, are a highly promising energy solution that could help to reduce carbon emissions. Perovskites, earth-abundant materials ...
How the sounds we hear help us predict how things feel
Researchers at the University of East Anglia have made an important discovery about the way our brains process the sensations of sound and touch.
Neuroscience
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People with similar faces likely have similar DNA
A collection of photos of genetically unrelated look-alikes, along with DNA analysis, revealed that strong facial similarity is associated with shared genetic variants. The work appears August 23 in the journal Cell Reports.
Genetics
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Deep learning algorithm may streamline lung cancer radiotherapy treatment
Lung cancer, the most common cancer worldwide, is targeted with radiation therapy (RT) in nearly one-half of cases. RT planning is a manual, resource-intensive process that can take days to weeks to complete, and even highly ...
Oncology & Cancer
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Study finds wireless sock monitors reduce rate of patient falls in hospital setting
Research led by nurses at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center has found that a new wireless sock monitoring system reduced fall rates among "fall-risk" patients hospitalized at Ohio State's Brain and Spine Hospital. ...
Health
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Gene therapy for completely color blind children partly restores cone function
Gene therapy has partly restored the function of the retina's cone receptors in two children who were born completely color blind, reports a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers.
Neuroscience
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The Future is Interdisciplinary
Find out how ACS can accelerate your research to keep up with the discoveries that are pushing us into science’s next frontier
Medical Xpress
Chronic COVID infections source of variants of concern, study shows
Sleepless and selfish: Lack of sleep makes us less generous
How new motion-sensing technology may help standardize back-pain care
Optimization of human small intestinal organoids
COVID virus' incubation time gets shorter with each new variant
Long-term benefit of radiotherapy confirmed in advanced prostate cancer
Research finds blood-clotting imbalance persists in long COVID
RSV prevention finally in reach after 20 years of research
Advance care planning for adolescents with cancer
Study examines distorted time perception during pandemic
Meditation and exercise can alleviate teacher stress
Tech Xplore
New book co-written by philosopher claims AI will 'never' rule the world
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from NYC's buildings
Emotional AI and gen Z: The attitude towards new technology and its concerns
Rare earths processor buys rights to mine in Greenland
Finding the 'magic' that powers the brain using a giant supercomputer
A neural network–based strategy to enhance near-term quantum simulations
Brushing thin films onto electrodes preserves batteries
Reordering the layers in solar-cell modules can help improve efficiency
Super-fast electric car charging, with a tailor-made touch
Unearthing the secrets of plant health and carbon storage with rhizosphere-on-a-chip
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a miniaturized environment to study the ecosystem around poplar tree roots for insights into plant health and soil carbon sequestration.
Ecology
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Fighting climate change is wildly popular, but most Americans don't know that
Just after the U.S. Congress passed the nation's most substantial legislation aimed at battling climate change, a new study shows that the average American badly underestimates how much their fellow citizens support substantive ...
Environment
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Scientists evaluate Earth-cooling strategies with geoengineering simulations
A group of international scientists led by Cornell University is—more rigorously and systematically than ever before—evaluating if and how the stratosphere could be made just a little bit "brighter," reflecting more incoming ...
Earth Sciences
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Study reveals how hunting hawks home in on prey inside a chaotic swarm
A study published this week in Nature Communications shows how hunting hawks solve the problem of intercepting a single bat within a dense swarm. The findings increase our understanding of how predators select and track a ...
Plants & Animals
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Analysis of everyday tools challenges long-held ideas about what drove major changes in ancient Greek society
A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs about what caused radical change on the island of Crete, where the first European state flourished during the Bronze Age: the Minoan civilization.
Archaeology
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Scientists discover surprise anticancer properties of common lab molecule
Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have made the surprising discovery that a molecule called EdU, which is commonly used in laboratory experiments to label DNA, is in fact recognized by human cells as DNA damage, triggering ...
Medical research
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Chronic COVID infections source of variants of concern, study shows
The coronavirus variants of concern are emerging from chronic, long-term COVID infections in people who may be immune comprised and unable to clear the virus, a new study strongly suggests. Frontiers in Virology published ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Revealed missing step in lipid formation could enable detection of past climates
The missing step in the formation of a lipid molecule that allows certain single-celled organisms to survive the most extreme environments on Earth has now been deciphered. This new understanding, uncovered by a team of biochemists ...
Biochemistry
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Faster fish tracking through the cloud
The fastest way to track a fish is to use the cloud, figuratively speaking. A new acoustic receiver, developed by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and published in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, ...
Hardware
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Despite flexibility, gig work and insecure income prove harmful to US workers, says new study
Insecure income associated with nontraditional employment known as "gig work" has a negative impact on the overall health and well-being of U.S. workers, according to a new article by researchers from UTHealth Houston.
Health
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Why researchers are interested in keeping (some) lionfish healthy
Researchers in North Carolina recently published a study focused on improving the health and welfare of lionfish (Pterois volitans and Pterois miles). While lionfish are visually striking (and venomous), this raises the question: ...
Bird flu kills 700 black vultures, closes animal sanctuary
Bird flu has killed hundreds of wild black vultures at a Georgia sanctuary that houses more than 1,500 other animals.
State, feds investigate illness that's sickened, killed dogs
State and federal agencies are investigating an unknown illness that's sickened dogs in northern Michigan and killed at least 30 canines in one county after they exhibited signs of a parvo-like illness.
'The find of a lifetime': 8-year-old boy discovers giant shark tooth in South Carolina
An 8-year-old boy made a prehistoric discovery this month by finding a giant tooth believed to be from the long-extinct angustidens—a megatooth shark species.
NASA 'go for launch' for planned Artemis I moon mission
With a week to go before the Artemis I rocket has its first shot at the moon, NASA managers said the hardware is good to go.
The kids are all fight: How millennials and Gen Z are driving change on climate
Benji Backer is a young person with an old story.
Worms elevate phosphate levels in grass
Worms are the farmer's main little helpers. They improve soil structure and help the plant obtain nutrients and phosphate. But some worms do a better job than others. Hannah Vos obtained her Ph.D. on research on which worms ...
Mediterranean wineries are in a climate hotspot. Climatologists are helping them adapt
From the possible demise of Merlot grapes in Bordeaux to loss of olive trees in north Africa, the impacts of climate change will be felt by farmers across the Mediterranean region, say climatologists.
Scientists develop active and smart terahertz electro-optic modulator
Recently, a research group led by Prof. Sheng Zhigao from the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) investigated an active and smart terahertz electro-optic ...
Mandatory labeling on genetically engineered foods may reduce customer purchases
Labels alerting customers that products contain ingredients from genetically engineered plants may reduce sales, at least in the short term, according to a new study from a research team including an agricultural economist ...
NASA schedules PUNCH mission to launch in 2025; will study the sun
More than 60 engineers and scientists are gathering at Southwest Research Institute Aug. 23-24 to kick off the launch vehicle collaboration for NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission. PUNCH, ...
New routes for the construction of strong metal–support interactions
Supported metal nanoparticle catalysts play an important role in a series of industrially important reactions for fuel production, fine chemical synthesis, pollutant removal, and solar harvesting. However, the metal NPs tend ...
Scientists have calculated what can unbalance El Niño
Physicists and mathematicians of the Ural Federal University (UrFU) have calculated how external factors affect the behavior of the El Niño atmospheric and oceanic processes in the Pacific region. In the mathematical model, ...
Animals found to track scents using alternating strategies of sniffing ground and air
A new study helps explain a poorly characterized, yet common behavior among animals and shows that foraging mammals take advantage of the physics of how scents move in the air and along the ground.
Multi-scale research uncovers microbes that affect sorghum drought response
Drought is one of the greatest threats to agricultural systems, resulting in unpredictable crop yields, declines in farm revenue, and an increase in disease outbreaks. In the United States alone, drought has cost the nation ...
Regulation of fruit development and ripening by DNA methylation
Recently, scientists from Shanxi Datong University and Chongqing University revealed that SlCMT4, which encodes a DNA methyltransferase responsible for de novo and non-CG methylation, plays an important role in diverse developmental ...
Researchers complete first comprehensive threat assessment of all US trees
For the first time, researchers have completed threat assessments for all 881 native tree species in the contiguous United States, resulting in a comprehensive checklist and synthesis that will serve as a critical baseline ...
Researchers develop blood-brain-barrier-permeable nanoparticles for Alzheimer's disease treatment
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease that leads to insidious deterioration of brain functions. Current treatments for AD that focus on inhibition of amyloid beta (Aβ) aggregation failed to show ...
Beach trash accumulates in predictable patterns on Washington and Oregon shores
Citizen scientists recorded trash on Pacific Northwest beaches, from southern Oregon to Anacortes, Washington, to contribute to the growing study of marine trash. A study by the University of Washington analyzed 843 beach ...
New biological sensor detects hidden disease in potatoes
Despite advances in increased food production, half of all world's harvested food is lost due to rots caused by microorganisms. Plants emit various volatile organic compounds into their surrounding environment, which can ...
