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May 13, 2024
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May 2, 2024 — A wild orangutan was observed applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild ...
May 1, 2024 — With recent studies having established the presence of nano and microplastic particles in the respiratory systems of both human and bird populations, new research has modeled what happens when people ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — It has long been thought that meat played an important role in the diet of hunter-gatherers before the Neolithic transition. However, due to the scarcity of well-preserved human remains from Paleolithic sites, little information exists about the ...
Apr. 29, 2024 — Dinosaurs were likely as smart as reptiles but not as intelligent as ...
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May 13, 2024 — The Giant Hummingbird of western South America is not one species but two, according to an international group of researchers. The northern population stays in the high Andes year-round while the ...
May 13, 2024 — A research team has unveiled a breakthrough in understanding how specific genetic sequences, known as pseudogenes, ...
May 13, 2024 — Today's rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found ...
May 13, 2024 — The researchers found that birds were more evolutionarily similar on smaller, more isolated islands than on larger, less remote places. The team had expected to find that forested areas had more ...
May 13, 2024 — Scientists have established a system to generate clonal sex cells in tomato plants and used them to design the genomes of offspring. The fertilization of a clonal egg from one parent by a clonal ...
May 13, 2024 — Researchers have made a surprising new discovery in the structure of the centromere, a structure that is involved in ensuring that chromosomes are ...
May 10, 2024 — Researchers have taken a key step toward closing the silver nanoparticles knowledge gap with a study that indicates the particles' shape and surface ...
May 13, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that how soft or rigid proteins are in certain regions can dictate how fast or slow they enter the ...
May 13, 2024 — Coal phase-out is necessary to solve climate change, but can have negative impacts on workers and local communities dependent on coal for their livelihoods. Researchers have studied government plans ...
May 9, 2024 — New research reveals what countries think will be their most difficult to decarbonize sectors when they reach net zero, with agriculture expected to be responsible for the largest remaining ...
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May 13, 2024 — Would you trust a robot to look after your cat? New research suggests it takes more than a carefully designed robot to care for your cat, the environment in which they operate is also vital, as well ...
May 13, 2024 — Suddenly they appear and -- like the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus -- can trigger major epidemics: Viruses that nobody had on their radar. They are not really new, but they have changed genetically. In ...
May 13, 2024 — Nature gave ticks, mosquitoes and leaches a quick-acting way to keep blood from clotting while they extract their meal from a host. Now the key to that method has been harnessed by a team of ...
May 13, 2024 — An experimental treatment made from a plant virus is effective at protecting against a broad range of metastatic cancers in mice, shows a new study. The treatment, composed of nanoparticles fashioned ...
May 10, 2024 — Introns are perhaps one of our genome's biggest mysteries. They are DNA sequences that interrupt the sensible protein-coding information in your genes, and need to be 'spliced ...
May 10, 2024 — New research into molten rock 20km below the Earth's surface could help save lives by improving the prediction of volcanic ...
May 10, 2024 — As often as four days a week, Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft based at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island fly loops overhead as pilots practice touch-and-go landings. The noise is ...
May 10, 2024 — The tool will help researchers better understand major challenges that afflict undernourished children, such as changes in cognitive development and higher infection ...
May 10, 2024 — Mantis shrimp are small creatures known for their superlatives. Their eyes have 12 to 16 different color receptors, versus our own three, and can detect the polarization of light. Their punches are ...
May 10, 2024 — Astronomers have proposed a new theory to explain the origin of phosphorus, one of the elements important for life on Earth. The theory suggests a type of stellar explosion known as ONe novae as a ...
May 9, 2024 — A team has developed a vaccine approach that works like a GPS, guiding the immune system through the specific steps to make broadly neutralizing antibodies against ...
May 9, 2024 — A method has been discovered to treat water heavily contaminated with unhealthful forever chemicals, known by chemists as PFAS or poly- and per-fluoroalkyl substances. It involves treating heavily ...
May 9, 2024 — Despite its benefits and recognition as a keystone practice of ocean stewardship and conservation, adoption of ecosystem-based management has been slow to take hold. To support this change in ocean ...
May 9, 2024 — A new model for predicting the effects of climate change on malaria transmission in Africa could lead to more targeted interventions to control the disease according to a new study. Previous methods ...
May 9, 2024 — Researchers report a new method that reduces the amount of iridium needed to produce hydrogen from water by 95%, without altering the rate of hydrogen production. This breakthrough could ...
May 9, 2024 — An international collaboration says the world's largest marine protected areas aren't collectively delivering the biodiversity benefits they could be because of slow implementation of ...
May 9, 2024 — A study showed that about half of those surveyed in the mid-South could not accurately identify a tornado ...
May 9, 2024 — The Canadian wildfires of June 2023 exposed a large portion of the Northeastern United States to unprecedented levels of smoke. A new model that combines wildfire smoke forecasts and data from ...
May 9, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ocean. The newly-discovered ...
May 9, 2024 — A 'crazy idea' hatched during a walk in the woods and first tested by a high school student is now an innovative research tool used by scientists worldwide to predict neurotransmitters in ...
Monday, May 13, 2024
- Cats Purrfectly Demonstrate What It Takes to Trust Robots
- New Viruses That Could Cause Epidemics on the Horizon
- New Molecule Mimics the Anti-Clotting Action of Blood-Sucking Organisms
- Plant Virus Treatment Shows Promise in Fighting Metastatic Cancers in Mice
Friday, May 10, 2024
- Cellular Activity Hints That Recycling Is in Our DNA
- Clues from Deep Magma Reservoirs Could Improve Volcanic Eruption Forecasts
- US Navy Growler Jet Noise Over Whidbey Island Could Impact 74,000 People's Health
- New Tool to Boost Battle Against Childhood Undernutrition
- Rolling With the Punches: How Mantis Shrimp Defend Against High-Speed Strikes
- ONe Novae Stellar Explosion May Be Source of Our Phosphorus
Thursday, May 9, 2024
- GPS-Like System Shows Promise as HIV Vaccine Strategy to Elicit Critical Antibodies
- New 'forever Chemical' Cleanup Strategy Discovered
- Transformation of Ocean Management Is Underway
- How Climate Change Will Affect Malaria Transmission
- Manganese Sprinkled With Iridium: A Quantum Leap in Green Hydrogen Production
- Ocean Biodiversity Work Needs Improvement
- Take Cover! Survey Shows Tornado Warnings Widely Misunderstood
- Improved Wildfire Smoke Model Identifies Areas for Public Health Intervention
- New Rhizobia-Diatom Symbiosis Solves Long-Standing Marine Mystery
- High School Student Helps Transform 'crazy Idea' Into Innovative Research Tool
- New Sex-Determining Mechanism in African Butterfly Discovered
- Liberals and Conservatives Differ on Climate Change Beliefs -- But Are Relatively United in Taking Action
- Saturated Soils Could Impact Survival of Young Trees Planted to Address Climate Change
- Brain Mechanisms Underlying Sensory Hypersensitivity in a Mouse Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Fluidic Systems Resembling Blood Vascular Tissues: Artificial Blood Vessels and Biomedicine
- An Epigenome Editing Toolkit to Dissect the Mechanisms of Gene Regulation
- Rapid Oyster Reef Restoration Gives Hope for Repairing the Sea
- Getting Dirty to Clean Up the Chemical Industry's Environmental Impact
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
- Who Should Receive Preventive Treatment for TB? Individuals of All Ages With Positive Skin or Blood Test
- Heavy Snowfall and Rain May Contribute to Some Earthquakes
- Human Activity Is Making It Harder for Scientists to Interpret Oceans' Past
- Climate Resilience Strategies in Urban, Rural Areas
- Pore Pressure Diffusion Led to Microseismicity at Illinois Basin Carbon Sequestration Site
- Rock Steady: Study Reveals New Mechanism to Explain How Continents Stabilized
- Damaging Impact of Heat Waves on Vital Organs
- New Record Holder for Smallest Dispersers of Ingested Seeds: Woodlice
- An Adjuvant Made in Yeast Could Lower Vaccine Cost and Boost Availability
- Marine Bacteria Team Up to Produce a Vital Vitamin
- Scientists Find Ancient, Endangered Lamprey Fish in Queensland, 1400 Km North of Its Previous Known Range
- Acceptance of Animals in Urban Environments
- Limited Adaptability Makes Freshwater Bacteria Vulnerable to Climate Change
- Natural Compounds That Selectively Kill Parasites
- Swarms of Miniature Robots Clean Up Microplastics and Microbes, Simultaneously
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
- Why Is Breaking Down Plant Material for Biofuels So Slow?
- It Flickers, Then It Tips -- Study Identifies Early Warning Signals for the End of the African Humid Period
- Chimps Learn and Improve Tool-Using Skills Even as Adults, Study Finds
- Efficacy of Solar Panels Boosted
- US Geographic Region Results in Vastly Different Anal Cancer Risk for People With HIV
- Researchers Show That Slow-Moving Earthquakes Are Controlled by Rock Permeability
- Intermittent Fasting Protects Against Liver Inflammation and Liver Cancer
- Bee Body Mass, Pathogens and Local Climate Influence Heat Tolerance
- Progression of Herpesvirus Infection Remodels Mitochondrial Organization and Metabolism
- How a 'conductor' Makes Sense of Chaos in Early Mouse Embryos
- From Fossils to Fuel: Mozambique's Maniamba Basin's Energy Potential
- Scientists Cooked Pancakes, Brussels Sprouts, and Stir Fry to Detect an Oxidant Indoors
- Millions in Costs Due to Discharge of Scrubber Water Into the Baltic Sea
- Bio-Inspired Materials' Potential for Efficient Mass Transfer Boosted by a New Twist on a Century-Old Theory
- Free-Forming Organelles Help Plants Adapt to Climate Change
- First Effective Treatment Found for Spitting Cobra Snakebite
- Origin of Roman Lead
- Low-Energy Process for High-Performance Solar Cells
- Fruit Fly Model Identifies Key Regulators Behind Organ Development
- Engineers Develop Innovative Microbiome Analysis Software Tools
Monday, May 6, 2024
- Geologists, Biologists Unearth the Atomic Fingerprints of Cancer
- DDT Pollutants Found in Deep Sea Fish Off Los Angeles Coast
- Turbid Waters Keep the Coast Healthy
- The Clues for Cleaner Water
- Using Advanced Genetic Techniques, Scientists Create Mice With Traits of Tourette Disorder
- New Vaccine Effective Against Coronaviruses That Haven't Even Emerged Yet
- High-Pressure Spectroscopy: Why 3,000 Bars Are Needed to Take a Comprehensive Look at a Protein
- Improved Nutrition, Sanitation Linked to Beneficial Changes in Child Stress and Epigenetic Programming
- AI to Make Crop Production More Sustainable
Friday, May 3, 2024
- Sister Cities Can Help Communities Better Navigate the Climate Crisis
- Aligned Peptide 'noodles' Could Enable Lab-Grown Biological Tissues
- Quantifying U.S. Health Impacts from Gas Stoves
- Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Is Shifting the Ecological Balance of Caribbean Reefs
- Genomes of 'star Algae' Shed Light on Origin of Plants
- Birdwatching Can Help Students Improve Mental Health, Reduce Distress
- Did a Magnetic Field Collapse Trigger the Emergence of Animals?
- Ice Shelves Fracture Under Weight of Meltwater Lakes
- How E. Coli Get the Power to Cause Urinary Tract Infections
- Plants Utilize Drought Stress Hormone to Block Snacking Spider Mites
- Source of Pregnancy Complications from Infections Revealed by Placenta Map
- New Discovery of a Mechanism That Controls Cell Division
- 'Gap' In Carbon Removal: Countries' Plans to Remove CO2 Not Enough
- Novel Chemical Tool for Understanding Membrane Remodeling in the Cell
- Climate Change Amplifies Severity of Combined Wind-Rain Extremes Over the UK and Ireland
- In Medieval England, Leprosy Spread Between Red Squirrels and People, Genome Evidence Shows
Monday, May 6, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- New Nevada Experiments Will Improve Monitoring of Nuclear Explosions
- New Eco-Friendly Lubricant Additives Protect Turbine Equipment, Waterways
- For Microscopic Organisms, Ocean Currents Act as 'expressway' To Deeper Depths
- Oil Palm Plantations Are Driving Massive Downstream Impact to Watershed
- Scientists Track 'doubling' In Origin of Cancer Cells
- Human Activity Is Causing Toxic Thallium to Enter the Baltic Sea, According to New Study
- Path to Easier Recycling of Solar Modules
- Robots Invited to Help Make Wind Turbine Blades
- Wildfires in Wet African Forests Have Doubled in Recent Decades
- Sugar-Based Catalyst Upcycles Carbon Dioxide
- Deeper Understanding of Malaria Parasite Development Unlocks Opportunities to Block Disease Spread