Plants & Animals
Newly identified tsetse fly pheromone may help in curbing disease spread
Yale scientists have for the first time identified a volatile pheromone emitted by the tsetse fly, a blood-sucking insect that spreads diseases in both humans and animals across much of sub-Saharan Africa. The discovery offers ...
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Nanomaterials
'Flash Joule' technique efficiently turns would-be pollution into valuable nanomaterials
Putting that soda bottle or takeout container into the recycling bin is far from a guarantee it will be turned into something new. Scientists at Rice University are trying to address this problem by making the process profitable.
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Antarctica sea ice melts to a record low
The Antarctic Ocean area covered by ice has shrunk to a record low, exposing the thicker ice shelves buttressing Antarctica's ground ice sheet to waves and warmer temperatures, scientists reported Thursday.
Environment
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Grooming handclasp in chimpanzees found to be culturally transmitted
A pair of animal behaviorists, one from Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, the other from the University of London, has found that grooming handclasps in chimpanzees is a behavior transmitted between generations culturally.
A broad-spectrum synthetic antibiotic that does not evoke bacterial resistance
In a potential game changer for the treatment of superbugs, researchers have developed a new class of antibiotics that cured mice infected with bacteria deemed nearly "untreatable" in humans—and resistance to the drug was ...
Medical research
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Receptor location matters for psychedelic drug effects
Location, location, location is the key for psychedelic drugs that could treat mental illness by rapidly rebuilding connections between nerve cells. In a paper published in Science, researchers at the University of California, ...
Medications
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Physicists solve durability issue in next-generation solar cells
Physicists in the U.S. jumped a major hurdle standing in the way of the commercialization of solar cells created with halide perovskites as a lower-cost, higher-efficiency replacement for silicon when generating electricity ...
Energy & Green Tech
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Chemically 'poisoned' protein acts as a molecular switch to spur cancer formation
Scientists at Scripps Research, with collaborators in Japan, have discovered how a "poisoned" form of a protein could set off a cascade of events that encourage the growth of some cancers. The research, published in Nature ...
Medications
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Scientists discover mirror neurons in mice and find they're tuned to aggression
In nature, when two animals fight, they are seldom without an audience. Pull back the camera on a pair of clashing lions and you'll see their peers looking on.
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What drives children to choose compassion?
University of Queensland researchers have found children will help people in distress unless there is a personal cost.
Psychology & Psychiatry
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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
New national autism guideline will finally give families a roadmap for therapy decisions
Epigenetic age and lung cancer risk in a prospective cohort study
Switch to plant-based diet could boost prostate cancer survival
Swapping meat for 'mycoprotein' may protect against bowel cancer
What kinds of people 'catfish'? Study finds they have higher psychopathy, sadism and narcissism
To prepare for future pandemics, we can learn from the OECD's top two performers: New Zealand and Iceland
What drives children to choose compassion?
Moms' and babies' medical data predicts prematurity complications, study shows
What factors influence children's learning of fear?
AI could improve mental health care by helping doctors analyze patients' answers
New mechanism of radioresistance formation shown in lung adenocarcinoma
AI model differentiates scalp psoriasis from seborrheic dermatitis
Using stool samples as an indicator of early form of Parkinson's
Research identifies potential long COVID racial disparities
Tech Xplore
Physicists solve durability issue in next-generation solar cells
The power of footfall: Harvesting energy from human traffic
Faster-than-reflexes robo-boots boost balance
A new approach to waste incineration removes CO2 from the atmosphere
How to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater
A large language model that answers philosophical questions
Keeping drivers safe with a road that can melt snow, ice on its own
US launches artificial intelligence military use initiative
Countries urge action for rules on AI use in war
Super Bowl car ads sell Americans the idea that new tech will protect them
Majority of Texans back shift to solar energy
Users say Microsoft's Bing chatbot gets defensive and testy
Eco-friendly mud houses make comeback in Hungary
Small molecule drug reverses ADAR1-induced cancer stem cell cloning capacity
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Sanford Stem Cell Institute and Moores Cancer Center report that a late-stage, pre-clinical small molecule inhibitor, called rebecsinib, reverses malignant ...
Medications
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New aurorae detected on Jupiter's four largest moons
Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi have discovered that aurorae at visible wavelengths appear on all 4 major moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
Astronomy
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A large language model that answers philosophical questions
In recent years, computer scientists have been trying to create increasingly advanced dialogue and information systems. The release of ChatGPT and other highly performing language models are demonstrating just how far artificial ...
Moms' and babies' medical data predicts prematurity complications, study shows
By sifting through electronic health records of moms and babies using a machine-learning algorithm, scientists can predict how at-risk newborns will fare in their first two months of life. The new method allows physicians ...
Obstetrics & gynaecology
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Tsunami in a water glass: Observing the actions of the hydrated electron
Hydrated electrons play a major role in many physical, chemical and biological processes. They are not bound to an atom or molecule and are free in the solution. Since they are only ever created as an intermediate product, ...
Analytical Chemistry
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Neanderthal genes may have helped early humans adapt to differences in Eurasian daylight hours
A team of epidemiologists and geneticists from Vanderbilt University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California has found evidence that suggests modern humans mating with Neanderthals may have gained ...
Nanoparticles perform ultralong distance communication, have 'no counterpart or analogue in nature'
Northwestern University chemists have designed a new photonic lattice with properties never before seen in nature. In solid materials, atoms must be equally spaced apart and close enough together to interact effectively. ...
Nanophysics
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Study shows that COVID-19 virus can be detected in tears sampled by ocular swab
Research led by scientists at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil has found that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can be detected in tears collected by swabbing. A swab is an absorbent cotton pad on a flexible ...
Medical research
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US housing market overvalued by $200 billion due to unpriced climate risks, says study
A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change examines the potential cost of unrealized flood risk in the American real estate market, finding that flood zone property prices are overvalued by $121–$237 billion.
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A star is born: Images of nearby galaxies provide clues about star formation
It is a popular notion that aside from large celestial objects like planets, stars and asteroids, outer space is empty. In fact, galaxies are filled with something called the interstellar medium (ISM)—that is, the gas and ...
Astronomy
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Do elementary school students do better when taught by teachers of the same race or ethnicity?
U.S. elementary school students do not particularly benefit from being taught by teachers of the same race or ethnicity. That's the major finding from our new study, published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly. We analyzed ...
Researchers develop a novel 2D material that uses a virus to kill cancer cells
Electro-thermal therapy, which involves applying electrical signals to nanomaterials, provides high cancer cell targeting accuracy and is highly bio-compatible. In this research, scientists from the Singapore University of ...
Climate lessons from the last global warming
The Earth experienced one of the largest and most rapid climate warming events in its history 56 million years ago: the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which has similarities to current and future warming. This episode ...
Cyclic RNA switches that regulate gene expression in a cell type-specific manner
The Hirohide Saito Laboratory has developed cyclic RNA switches that can control gene expression in a cell type-specific manner using miRNAs and RNA-binding proteins and has successfully constructed an artificial gene circuit ...
What is a UFO? The US shot down three mysterious objects as interest and concern increase over unidentified craft
On the heels of the Feb. 4, 2023, shooting down of a Chinese balloon suspected of spying on the U.S., American fighter jets have shot down three additional objects in or near U.S. airspace.
Newly discovered virus can kill resistant bacteria
The Danish creeks, Odense Å and Lindved Å, have surprised researchers and students at SDU by containing previously unknown virus species.
Children can now report rights violations directly to the UN, but Aotearoa New Zealand still needs to do more
The latest report into the rights of children in Aotearoa New Zealand has painted a mixed picture of how the country treats young people.
Buildings tumbling, survivors living in tents: Medieval descriptions of an earthquake in present-day Turkey and Syria
The catastrophic earthquakes of February 6, 2023 in Turkey and Syria are so far known to have claimed the lives of over 41,000 people. This number will likely grow as rescue and recovery efforts continue.
Vaccine to protect pigs from Japanese encephalitis virus
Scientists at The University of Queensland have developed a novel vaccine for Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) in pigs, to help stop the spread of the disease in Australia.
An extremely lightweight fission rocket could reach the solar gravitational lens in 15 years
Novel propulsion ideas for moving around space seem like they're a dime a dozen recently. Besides the typical argument between solar sails and chemical propulsion lies a potential third way—a nuclear rocket engine. While ...
Astronomers spot a rogue supermassive black hole hurtling through space leaving star formation in its wake
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) lurk in the center of large galaxies like ours. From their commanding position in the galaxy's heart, they feed on gas, dust, stars, and anything else that strays too close, growing more massive ...
Trilingual study shows how non-native languages interact with each other when multilinguals talk
People who speak more than two languages are more likely to mistakenly use words from the language they're least proficient in, new research has shown.
COVID-19 restrictions unexpectedly reduced Islamic State violence—political science experts explain why
World leaders and policy experts at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic feared that the health crisis might make the world more dangerous. They worried specifically that terrorist organizations like the Islamic State group ...
US unprepared for dangers posed by zoonotic diseases, new analysis concludes
The United States, the largest importer of wildlife in the world, is not prepared for future spread of animal-borne, or zoonotic, diseases due to gaps among governmental agencies designed to combat these threats, concludes ...
Financial strain and material deprivation linked to increased child behavioral difficulties
Exposure to financial strain and material deprivation rather than reduced household income are linked to the development of child behavioral difficulties, according to a new study conducted by researchers in the Department ...
Frustrated ferromagnetic transition in AB-stacked honeycomb bilayer
In two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnets, anisotropy is essential for the magnetic ordering as dictated by the Mermin-Wagner theorem. The recently discovered van der Waals ferromagnets are largely considered to have uniaxial ...
From transient to eternal: Probing equilibrium correlations by ramping dynamics
Prof. Jiazhong Hu at Tsinghua University and Prof. Xuzong Chen at Peking University, utilizing a new theory named non-adiabatic linear response proposed by Prof. Hui Zhai at Tsinghua University, experimentally demonstrate ...
Trees can be weeds as well: Here's why that's a problem
When we think of weeds, often what comes to mind are small, quick-growing plants such as the dandelions or couch grass we might find in our gardens. You may not think of trees as being weedy.
Almost a year on, Russia's war against Ukraine could go in three different directions
The frontline may be frozen but the battle rages on in Ukraine. In Bakhmut, a town which Moscow views as key to gain control of the entire Eastern Donbas area, the past weeks have seen military stock shrink fast, and hundreds ...
Seattle airport's legacy of PFAS chemicals: 'Foam showers,' sick firefighters and contaminated water
In the 1980s, rookie firefighters at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport endured a hazing ritual known as the "foam shower."