Stifling heat and sticky air often make summertime in the city uncomfortable. Due to the heat island effect, urban areas are significantly warmer than nearby rural areas, even at night. This, combined with more frequent extreme ...
Earth Sciences
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A protein located in the wrong part of a cell can contribute to several diseases, such as Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis, and cancer. But there are about 70,000 different proteins and protein variants in a single human cell, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 13, 2025
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A study published in ACS Nano presents a novel biosensor for the isothermal, highly sensitive detection of bladder cancer biomarkers—miRNAs, short non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression—using programmable pH-responsive ...
Bio & Medicine
May 13, 2025
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Artisanal lead mining in Nigeria is responsible for airborne lead exposures that are 10 times the U.S. Permissible Exposure Limit according to a study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene.
Environment
May 13, 2025
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The United States government recently announced a plan to leverage a 100% tariff on "foreign" films. President Donald Trump explained it was because he wanted to protect the U.S. film industry. He said other reasons include ...
Social Sciences
May 13, 2025
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in journalistic work for everything from transcribing interviews and translating articles to writing and publishing local weather, economic reports and water quality stories.
Social Sciences
May 13, 2025
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Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is trained on enormous bodies of text, video and images to identify patterns. It then creates new texts, videos and images on the basis of this pattern identification. Thanks to machine ...
Education
May 13, 2025
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Open a book of maps and look for the "Indo-Pacific" region—it likely won't be there.
Political science
May 13, 2025
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Sugars come in all shapes and sizes. We need them for energy and we enjoy them, but complex variants may also be used as medicine. Chemist Peter Moons from Radboud University has developed these types of sugars. He will defend ...
Biochemistry
May 13, 2025
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As summer approaches, millions of Americans begin planning or taking trips to state and national parks, seeking to explore the wide range of outdoor recreational opportunities across the nation. A lot of them will head toward ...
Ecology
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