Molecular & Computational biology
The Achilles heel of the coronavirus
Viruses require the resources of an infected cell to replicate and then infect further cells, and transfer to other individuals. One essential step in the viral life cycle is the production of new viral proteins based on ...
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Economics & Business
Market report: Rising stock wealth does boost spending, employment
The stock market is a staple of business news, but it is unclear how meaningful stock prices are to the larger economy. Do changes in stock prices directly affect shorter-term consumption, or are they just leading indicators ...
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Victoria's watch catchments may not recover from drought, study finds
Australian-first research by Monash University discredits the theory that rivers and underground water supplies eventually replenish following droughts or floods. Following the Australian Millennium Drought, one-third of ...
Earth Sciences
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New snailfish genome reveals how they adapted to the pressures of deep-sea life
A new whole genome sequence for the Yap hadal snailfish provides insights into how the unusual fish survives in some of the deepest parts of the ocean. Xinhua Chen of the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University and Qiong ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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A new approach to identify genetic boundaries of species could also impact policy
A new approach to genomic species delineation could impact policy and lend clarity to legislation for designating a species as endangered or at risk.
Molecular & Computational biology
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Newly discovered Wi-Fi vulnerabilities called FragAttacks place all mobile devices at risk
Fragmentation and aggregation attacks—or frag attacks—refer to a series of design flaws and programming security vulnerabilities affecting Wi-Fi devices. Recent studies have shown that any attacker within radio range ...
Study of 70,000 individuals links dementia to smoking and cardiovascular disease
In the largest study of the associations between smoking and cardiovascular disease on cognitive function, researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, found both impair ...
Health
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To prevent next pandemic, scientists say we must regulate air like food and water
Humans in the 21st century spend most of their time indoors, but the air we breathe inside buildings is not regulated to the same degree as the food we eat and the water we drink. A group of 39 researchers from 14 countries, ...
Medical research
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Brain mechanism of curiosity unraveled
Curiosity is the motivational drive for exploring and investigating the unknown and making new discoveries. It is as essential and intrinsic for survival as hunger. Until recently, the brain mechanisms underlying curiosity ...
Neuroscience
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A sibling-guided strategy to capture the 3D shape of the human face
A new strategy for capturing the 3D shape of the human face draws on data from sibling pairs and leads to identification of novel links between facial shape traits and specific locations within the human genome. Hanne Hoskens ...
Genetics
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Medical Xpress
Johnson 'anxious' over rise of Indian virus variant in UK
New coronavirus lingers in penis and could cause impotence
Brain mechanism of curiosity unraveled
Researchers identify a missing piece of the Lyme disease puzzle
Pregnant Aussie mums denied nausea and vomiting medications
Doctors fear COVID-19 vaccines are messing with mammograms
Count your blessings: Short gratitude intervention can increase academic motivation
Contact-tracing apps prove that they save lives
B.1.1.7 variant arrived in U.S. in December, spread rapidly, study finds
Measuring brain blood flow and activity with light
Food dyes may cause disease when the immune system is dysregulated, researchers report
Cancer has ripple effect on distant tissues
Adolescents and older adults lack attention in social situations
COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are immunogenic in pregnant and lactating women
Long COVID affecting more than half of patients six months on
Tech Xplore
Making AI algorithms show their work
Congestion pricing could shrink car size
New design for isolated power supply chip
Beautiful or handsome? Neural language models try their hand at word substitution
A new visual library to achieve successful Plus Energy Building design
Fatigue test trial for drowsy drivers
Definitive valuation guide for pumped storage hydropower
Turbine cooling turns night into day
Australia installs record-breaking number of rooftop solar panels
Video: Reverse osmosis: How engineers save lives
Amazon, Apple and Google unite to certify smart home devices
Making AI algorithms show their work
Artificial intelligence (AI) learning machines can be trained to solve problems and puzzles on their own instead of using rules that we made for them. But often, researchers do not know what rules the machines make for themselves. ...
Computer Sciences
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Researchers identify a missing piece of the Lyme disease puzzle
Epidemic. Pandemic. These terms have become second nature to us, popping up in everyday conversation, and for good reason—COVID-19 is the latest pandemic to pose a threat to humanity.
Medical research
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A universal method to easily design tough and stretchable hydrogels
In a new report in NPG Asia materials, Chisa Norioka and a team of scientists in Chemistry and Materials Engineering in Japan, detailed a universal method to easily prepare tough and stretchable hydrogels without special ...
New evidence for electron's dual nature found in a quantum spin liquid
A new discovery led by Princeton University could upend our understanding of how electrons behave under extreme conditions in quantum materials. The finding provides experimental evidence that this familiar building block ...
General Physics
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Trace gases from ocean are source of particles accelerating Antarctic climate change
Scientists exploring the drivers of Antarctic climate change have discovered a new and more efficient pathway for the creation of natural aerosols and clouds which contribute significantly to temperature increases.
Earth Sciences
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Urban traffic noise causes song learning deficits in birds
Traffic noise leads to inaccuracies and delays in the development of song learning in young birds. They also suffer from a suppressed immune system, which is an indicator of chronic stress. A new study by researchers of the ...
Plants & Animals
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Kelp, maggots and mycoprotein among future foods that must be mass-farmed to combat malnutrition
Radical changes to the food system are needed to safeguard our food supply and combat malnutrition in the face of climate change, environmental degradation and epidemics, says new report.
Environment
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Fossilized tracks show earliest known evidence of mammals at the seashore
Today, the rocks of the Hanna Formation in south-central Wyoming are hundreds of miles away from the nearest ocean. But around 58 million years ago, Wyoming was oceanfront property, with large hippo-like mammals traipsing ...
Paleontology & Fossils
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Quantum machine learning hits a limit
A new theorem from the field of quantum machine learning has poked a major hole in the accepted understanding about information scrambling.
Quantum Physics
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Natural climate change solutions highly effective in the long term
Nature-based solutions (NbS) can contribute to the fight against climate change up to the end of our century, according to new Oxford research in the leading scientific journal Nature. The analysis suggests that, to limit ...
Environment
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Understanding how people make sense of the news they consume
How people consume news and take actions based on what they read, hear or see, is different than how human brains process other types of information on a daily basis, according to researchers at the University of Missouri ...
Research reveals negative effects of hotel app adoption on customer spending
Companies have often considered app adoption among their customers to have a positive impact on customer spending. According to new research from marketing professor P.K. Kannan at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith ...
70% of California is officially in a drought. Here are some household tips for saving water
In California, 41 out of 58 counties are now officially under drought conditions.
Call for 'paradigm shift' to fight airborne spread of COVID-19 indoors
QUT air-quality expert Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska is leading an international call for a "paradigm shift" in combating airborne pathogens such as COVID-19, demanding universal recognition that infections can be ...
Two regions in the canine genome explain one third of the risk of rare blood cancer
Mutations in two genetic regions in dogs explain over one third of the risk of developing an aggressive form of hematological cancer, according to a study led by Jacquelyn Evans and Elaine Ostrander at the National Human ...
EPA revokes Trump-era policy that loosened clean-air rules
The Environmental Protection Agency is revoking a Trump-era rule that overhauled how the agency evaluates air pollutants, a move the Biden administration says will make it easier to enact limits on dangerous and climate-changing ...
Japanese tycoon planning space station visit, then moon trip
The Japanese fashion tycoon who's booked a SpaceX ride to the moon is going to try out the International Space Station first.
Helping endangered sea turtles, one emergency surgery at a time
"Help! I'm fishing and just caught a huge sea turtle. She's completely swallowed my hook." We are two veterinarians, Debra Moore, who specializes in sea turtles, and John Thomason, who specializes in internal medicine. This ...
Fire officials aim to squelch blazes fast, avoid megafires
U.S. officials said Thursday that they will try to stamp out wildfires as quickly as possible this year as severe drought tightens its grip across the West and sets the stage for another destructive summer of blazes.
How sex work has been affected by the pandemic
In the months before the pandemic, I was involved in an extensive piece of research into the sex work industry in the UK. Focusing on the main online market for sex work in the UK, AdultWork, we analyzed the profiles of more ...
Outcry over Brazil bill relaxing environmental rules
Environmentalists accused Brazilian lawmakers Thursday of further threatening the country's disappearing rainforests after the lower house passed a bill relaxing environmental regulations for the agriculture and energy sectors.
SpaceX signs deal with Google Cloud for satellite broadband
Elon Musk's SpaceX announced Thursday that Google would team up with its Starlink satellite internet service to deliver cloud computing services to business customers.
Russia to send film crew, Japanese billionaire to space
Russia said Thursday it would send an actress and a director into space to make the first feature film in the cosmos and also deliver an eccentric Japanese billionaire to the International Space Station.
Crashing Chinese rocket highlights growing dangers of space debris
This weekend, a Chinese rocket booster, weighing nearly 23 tons, came rushing back to Earth after spending more than a week in space—the result of what some critics, including NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, have attributed ...
Tutoring may mitigate pandemic learning losses, study finds
The latest federal stimulus package included funding for K-12 school districts across the country to use specifically for combatting learning losses resulting from the pandemic.
How snake fangs evolved to perfectly fit their food
Few structures in nature inspire more fear and fascination than the fangs of venomous snakes.
Long-lost letter from Einstein discusses link between physics and biology—70 years before evidence emerges
Since the dawn of the electronic age, it has never been easier for researchers to engage with the general public—gaining access to precious resources otherwise unavailable.
Man's best friend in life and death: Pet dog brain banking supports aging research
Two recent papers from Hungarian researchers highlight the so far underrated relevance of pet dog biobanking in molecular research and introduce their initiative to make pioneering steps in this field. The Hungarian Canine ...
Complete genome of the raccoon dog
A study, in which the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country participated, has for the first time assembled and annotated the complete genome of the raccoon dog, a species originating in East Asia but introduced into Europe, ...
Freeform imaging systems: Fermat's principle unlocks 'first time right' design
Researchers at Brussels Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, have developed a 'first time right' design method that eliminates the "step-and-repeat" and "trial-and-error" approach in optical system design. They demonstrated ...
