Medical schools around the country are trying to recruit Black, Hispanic, and Native American students, all of whom remain disproportionately underrepresented in the field of medicine. Research has shown that patients of ...
Education
Jul 8, 2024
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Proteins have evolved to excel at everything from contracting muscles to digesting food to recognizing viruses. To engineer better proteins, including antibodies, scientists often iteratively mutate the amino acids—the ...
Biochemistry
Jul 5, 2024
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Why should a medical student develop an interest in conservation? According to a growing body of evidence, including a recent study co-authored by William & Mary biologist John Swaddle, the seemingly separate fields of health ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 4, 2024
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Understanding how gold forms is crucial for knowing where to find it and how to extract it sustainably. McGill researchers have answered a long-standing question in geology that could lead to new ore discoveries.
Earth Sciences
Jul 3, 2024
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Cicada's cries ring out in the hot air and their discarded exoskeletons decorate tree branches in the southeast and midwest United States at the height of summer. While their ability to emerge in huge numbers is astounding, ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 3, 2024
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique commonly used to explore the brains of sheep. Until now, it had only been performed under general anesthesia, to ensure the animal's immobility. Anesthesia, however, leads to ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 1, 2024
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The 2024 election has seen party leaders strain to present themselves as being in touch with the struggles ordinary people are facing in the cost of living crisis. And yet they don't appear to be convincing anyone.
Political science
Jul 1, 2024
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For hundreds of years, the clarity and magnification of microscopes were ultimately limited by the physical properties of their optical lenses. Microscope makers pushed those boundaries by making increasingly complicated ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 28, 2024
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High-power ultrafast laser with an operation wavelength extending to the 2.0 μm range has been attracting increasing research interest, mostly driven by its applications in various fields such as remote sensing, material ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 28, 2024
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When a particle beam hits a target in an isotope production facility, it generates heat that is removed by water channels. The transfer of heat between the target and the flowing water produces subcooled flow boiling. This ...
Other
Jun 28, 2024
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