Bio & Medicine
New nanowire sensors are the next step in the Internet of Things
A new miniscule nitrogen dioxide sensor could help protect the environment from vehicle pollutants that cause lung disease and acid rain.
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Archaeology
Modern tools reveal the brutality of death by multiple sword blows 700 years ago
A team of researchers from the University of Insubria and the University of Siena, both in Italy, has used modern tools to reconstruct the events that led to the death of a young man approximately 700 hundred years ago, in ...
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Decoding mega magnetic explosions outside the solar system
Neutron stars and black holes may be stellar corpses, but they are among the most active celestial objects. They produce some of the highest-energy radiation ever observed, and scientists have long puzzled over the physics ...
Plasma Physics
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Immediate uptick in investment needed to reach net zero
Both the European Union and Switzerland have set themselves the goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050 and of reducing their greenhouse gas emissions to net zero. To achieve this target, major investments in power generation ...
Environment
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Amazon rainforest deforestation is influencing weather in Tibet
An international team of climate scientists has found evidence suggesting that deforestation in the Amazon rainforest is influencing weather in Tibet, more than 15,000 kilometers away. In their paper published in the journal ...
Investigating the intestinal transport of mercury ions with a gut-on-a-chip device
The transport of mercury ions across intestinal epithelial cells can be studied for toxicology assessments by using animal models and static cell cultures. However, the concepts do not reliably replicate conditions of the ...
Foams used in car seats and mattresses are hard to recycle—a new plant-based version avoids polyurethane's health risks
A new plant-based substitute for polyurethane foam eliminates the health risk of the material, commonly found in insulation, car seats and other types of cushioning, and it's more environmentally sustainable, our new research ...
Materials Science
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Study suggests one solution to America's opioid epidemic: Tell doctors their patients fatally overdosed
There are no simple solutions to America's deadly overdose epidemic, which costs 100,000 lives each year and is erasing gains in life expectancy. But a team of USC researchers have found one low-cost intervention can make ...
Medications
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Vaccine and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection confer long-lasting protection against omicron BA.5
A new study led by Luís Graça, group leader at the Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM, Lisbon) and full professor at the Medical School of the University of Lisbon, and Manuel Carmo Gomes, associate ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
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Controlled, localized delivery of blood thinner may improve blood clot treatment
Heparin has long been used as a blood thinner, or anticoagulant, for patients with blood clotting disorders or after surgery to prevent complications. But the medication remains difficult to dose correctly, potentially leading ...
Medications
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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
Risk for psychiatric disorders up for spouses of patients with cancer
Patients, doctors await FDA decision on experimental Alzheimer's drug
CVS, walgreens say they will offer abortion pills in some states
Medical, surgical abortions are very safe: review
Mpox cases reported in cisgender women
How unhealthy are cigars?
Increasing staff vaccination at nursing homes cuts COVID-19 infections
Changes in lifestyle habits linked to colorectal cancer risk
Vaccine and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection confer long-lasting protection against omicron BA.5
Scars mended using transplanted hair follicles in new study
MIS-C seems more common, severe than previously thought
Small exposures to body positive content can improve body image
Study examines dementia caregiver's experiences and preparedness
Why can't I lose weight?
Tech Xplore
High-profile flops fill gallery at CES gadget fest
AI tech exaggerates biases in facial age perception more than humans
CES 2023: Ram electric pickup joins crowded field next year
Study shows how waste can be used to insulate homes in hot regions
SolarEV cities: Pathways to decarbonize developing cities equitably, affordably
Best of CES 2023: Canine communication and a calming pillow
From tracking moods to putting on a show, it's AI-everything at CES
BMW unveils car that can change color
Best of CES 2023: Wireless TV, delivery robots and in-car VR
A statistical model for ensuring children's safe and sound mobility
Cleaning contaminated water with flax shives
CES gadget gala looks to shake off economic gloom
Team stabilizes nickel-rich cathodes for use in long-life lithium-ion batteries
A win-win for cell communities: Cells that cooperate live longer
When cells exchange metabolic products with other cells, they live longer. This new finding comes from a research team at Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, which made the discovery in a study using yeast cells. The ...
Cell & Microbiology
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High-efficiency gene-editing tool used on fungi significantly improves pace of new drug discovery
As anyone who has ever attended a cocktail party can tell you, shedding inhibitions makes you more talkative and possibly more prone to divulging secrets. Fungi, it turns out, are no different from humans in this respect.
Biotechnology
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Shopping mall microbiome mirrors its shoppers
People flock to shopping malls for all sorts of reasons. But money isn't the only thing they leave behind—and shopping bags aren't the only things they take home.
Cell & Microbiology
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Nitrous oxide emissions higher from soils lacking organic matter
Emissions from soil of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide can be drastically reduced just by adding carbon-rich manure, new research from Rothamsted Research and the University of Bristol shows.
Environment
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Pioneering machine learning technique on the hypothalamus gives insight into nature of aggression
Have you ever been cut off while driving and found yourself swearing and laying on the horn? Or come home from a long day at work and lashed out at whoever left the dishes unwashed? From petty anger to the devastating violence ...
Neuroscience
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Deep learning algorithm can hear alcohol in voice
La Trobe University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that could work alongside expensive and potentially biased breath testing devices in pubs and clubs.
Addiction
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Monkeypox viruses remain sensitive to the available drugs
The mpox virus is closely related to the smallpox virus (variola virus), which caused large, deadly outbreaks before it was eradicated by vaccination at the end of the 1970s. While the smallpox virus led to very severe disease ...
Medications
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China's Young Thousand Talents program found to be largely successful
A trio of researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tsinghua University and the University of Hong Kong has found that a program launched by the Chinese government in 2010 to recruit and nurture Chinese scientists has ...
Scientists develop method to turn plastic waste into potentially valuable soil additive
University of California, Riverside, scientists have moved a step closer to finding a use for the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste produced every year that often winds up clogging streams and rivers and polluting ...
Energy & Green Tech
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AI tech exaggerates biases in facial age perception more than humans
Artificial intelligence is the future. In fact, it's already here. One of the latest advancements is using it for automatically estimating age based on a person's face, a technology used for determining who can enter a bar ...
Machine learning & AI
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Researchers reveal mechanism of fatigue damage by high thermal loads in tungsten composites
The relationship between microstructure evolution and property degradation of two representative second-phase dispersion strengthened tungsten materials after electron beam thermal loading was investigated recently by a collaborated ...
Brand new toolbox for better gender balance in academia
Vivian Anette Lagesen, a professor at NTNU's Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, has been asked many times what works to achieve gender balance in academia. Her answer is always, "It depends."
Ultrathin vanadium oxychloride demonstrates strong optical anisotropic properties
The optical, electrical and mechanical properties of some materials change depending on the direction or orientation of the material. Depending on how wood is cut, for example, the orientation of the wood grain can result ...
Quiet, please: Human noise is interfering with the sex lives of grasshoppers
Grasshoppers have a bad reputation. They're not popular with gardeners And locusts, a type of swarming grasshopper, can do huge damage to vegetation and crops when they're in a feeding frenzy.
Green jobs are booming, but too few employees have sustainability skills to fill them. Four ways to close the gap
To meet today's global sustainability challenges, the corporate world needs more than a few chief sustainability officers—it needs an army of employees, in all areas of business, thinking about sustainability in their decisions ...
Tale of fight to save New England's native rabbit
What is New England without the New England cottontail?
Nanomedicines for various diseases are in development, but research facilities produce vastly inconsistent results
Nanomedicines took the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers are using these very small and intricate materials to develop diagnostic tests and treatments. Nanomedicine is already used for various diseases, ...
Expert discusses La Niña and El Niño cycles effects on Australia
Climate models indicate La Niña is on the way out, with El Niño conditions expected later this year. CSIRO Climate Scientist Dr. Wenju Cai explains what this means for Australia's weather and how changing conditions will ...
Diversity of US workplaces is growing in terms of race, ethnicity and age, forcing more employers to be flexible
Increased immigration, longer life expectancy and a decline in birth rates are transforming the U.S. workforce in two important ways. The people powering this nation's economy include far more people of color and workers ...
France suffered record heat, rain shortfall in 2022: weather office
France experienced its hottest average temperature and lowest levels of rainfall on record in 2022, the national weather office said on Friday.
Study reveals online fake reviewers suffer from pangs of conscience
The authors of online fake reviews suffer from pangs of conscience, according to a new study which looked at the process behind their creation.
Turning plants into biological factories
Genetic manipulation has come a long way.
Negative online reviews from Black people perceived as less credible, according to new study
Consumers are less likely to perceive a negative review from someone of a Black background as credible, according to a first-of-a-kind study which explored the impact of showing race in online profile pictures and avatars.
Video: How climate change is intensifying the winter storms slamming California
As another atmospheric river impacts California on January 4 and 5—with more rain forecast after that—Michael Wehner, a senior scientist in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ...
Students who study abroad are more civically engaged
After a few months in a different country, you may pick up a new phrase or favorite dish, but can studying abroad change how you participate in society? A recent study published in the Journal of Moral Education found that ...
Nickel nanowires enhance microwave absorption, study finds
In a study published in Advanced Materials Interfaces, a research team led by Prof. Wang Hui and associate Prof. Sheng Zhigao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported ...
The amazing system plants use to shape their roots and why it could help protect crops from climate change
Plants have colonised the vast majority of the Earth's surface. So what is the key to their success?
New protections for endangered whales along the California coast adopted
The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations agency that governs safety and environmental standards for shipping worldwide, has adopted a U.S. proposal to increase protections for endangered blue, fin ...
Bayesian inference massively cuts time of X-ray fluorescence analysis
How can the component elements of an unknown material, such as a meteorite, be determined? X-ray fluorescence analysis can be used to identify an abundance of elements, by irradiating samples with X-rays and analyzing the ...
What exactly is 'neurodiversity?' Using accurate language about disability matters in schools
The connection between language and meaning has been well established. The language we use is directly related to the way we view and treat others. Inclusive language is imperative to achieve equitable change, grounded in ...
