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Jan. 15, 2021 — Earth's global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis ...
Jan. 11, 2021 — Scientists believe that planets like Earth bob in a sea of gravitational waves that spread throughout the universe. Now, an international team has gotten closer than ever ...
Jan. 7, 2021 — New research explains how a 'stop-start' pattern of evolution, governed by environmental change, could explain why crocodiles have changed so little since the age of ...
Jan. 6, 2021 — Australia's beaver-like, duck-billed platypus exhibits an array of bizarre characteristics: it lays eggs instead of giving birth to live babies, sweats milk, has venomous ...
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Scientists Reveal Mechanism That Causes Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Jan. 17, 2021 — Researchers have identified the biological mechanism that explains why some people experience abdominal pain when they eat certain foods. The finding paves the way for more efficient treatment of ...
One Small Alcoholic Drink a Day Is Linked to an Increased Risk of Atrial Fibrillation
Jan. 17, 2021 — A study of nearly 108,000 people has found that people who regularly drink a modest amount of alcohol are at increased risk of atrial fibrillation, a ...
New Clues to Prostate Cancer
Jan. 5, 2021 — New research has identified a new mechanism in which prostate cancer cells can 'switch' character and become resistant to therapy. These findings are an important development in unraveling how an ...
Hard to Crack Research Reveals How Crop Roots Penetrate Hard Soils
Jan. 14, 2021 — Scientists have discovered a signal that causes roots to stop growing in hard soils which can be 'switched off' to allow them to punch through compacted soil -- a discovery that could help plants to ...
Model Analyzes How Viruses Escape the Immune System
Jan. 14, 2021 — MIT researchers have devised a way to computationally model viral escape, using models that were originally developed to model language. The model can predict which sections of viral surface ...
Not as Simple as Thought: How Bacteria Form Membrane Vesicles
Jan. 14, 2021 — Researchers have identified a novel mechanism by which bacteria form membrane vesicles, which bacteria employ to communicate with each other or to defend themselves against antibiotics. By studying ...
Overactive Food Quality Control System Triggers Food Allergies, Scientists Say
Jan. 14, 2021 — In a new paper, immunobiologists propose an expanded explanation for the rise of food allergies -- the exaggerated activation of our food quality ...
How Insects Activate Muscles to Adapt to Limbs Removed
Jan. 14, 2021 — Adaptability explains why insects spread so widely and why they are the most abundant animal group on earth. Insects exhibit resilient and flexible locomotion, even with drastic changes in their body ...
Glass Frogs Living Near Roaring Waterfalls Wave Hello to Attract Mates
Jan. 15, 2021 — A conservationist has discovered that the glass frog Sachatamia orejuela can be added to the list of species that make use of visual cues in response to their acoustic environments. This is the first ...
Conductive Nature in Crystal Structures Revealed at Magnification of 10 Million Times
Jan. 15, 2021 — In groundbreaking materials research, a team has made a discovery that blends the best of two sought-after qualities for touchscreens and smart ...
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Scientists Offer Road Map to Improve Environmental Observations in the Indian Ocean
Jan. 15, 2021 — A group of more than 60 scientists have provided recommendations to improve the Indian Ocean Observing System (IndOOS), a basin-wide monitoring system to better understand the impacts of human-caused ...
Tool to Distribute Limited Vaccines Equitably
Jan. 15, 2021 — Researchers have developed a tool that incorporates a person's age and socioeconomic status to prioritize vaccine distribution among people who otherwise share similar risks due to their ...
Scientists Identify Nutrient That Helps Prevent Bacterial Infection
Jan. 15, 2021 — Scientists studying the body's natural defenses against bacterial infection have identified a nutrient -- taurine -- that helps the gut recall prior infections and kill invading bacteria, such ...
Controlling Chemical Catalysts With Sculpted Light
Jan. 15, 2021 — Using state-of-the-art fabrication and imaging, researchers watched the consequences of adding sculpted light to a catalyst during a chemical transformation. This work could inform more efficient -- ...
RNA's Mysterious Folding Process
Jan. 15, 2021 — Using data from RNA-folding experiments, the researchers generated the first-ever data-driven movies of how RNA folds as it is made by cellular machinery. By watching their videos of this folding ...
Target Discovered That Halts Osteoarthritis-Type Knee Cartilage Degeneration
Jan. 15, 2021 — In a mouse study, researchers used nanotechnology and previous knowledge of a protein pathway to significantly reduce knee cartilage degeneration and ...
Researchers Trace Geologic Origins of Gulf of Mexico 'Super Basin' Success
Jan. 15, 2021 — The Gulf of Mexico holds huge untapped offshore oil deposits that could help power the U.S. for decades. According to researchers, the basin's vast oil and gas reserves are the result of a ...
Breathing Easier With a Better Tracheal Stent
Jan. 15, 2021 — New research is poised to drastically improve the use of tracheal stents for children with airway obstruction. Researchers demonstrate for the first time the successful use of a completely ...
New Delivery Method Promises Relief from Antipsychotic Medication's Adverse Side Effects
Jan. 15, 2021 — A team of neuroscientists and engineers has created a nasal spray to deliver antipsychotic medication directly to the brain instead of having it pass through the ...
X-Rays Surrounding 'Magnificent 7' May Be Traces of Sought-After Particle
Jan. 15, 2021 — Theoretical physicists suggest that never-before-observed particles called axions may be the source of unexplained, high-energy X-ray emissions surrounding a group of neutron ...
Scientists Identify Contents of Ancient Maya Drug Containers
Jan. 15, 2021 — Scientists have identified the presence of a non-tobacco plant in ancient Maya drug containers for the first time. The researchers detected Mexican marigold (Tagetes lucida) in residues taken from 14 ...
Helium Nuclei at the Surface of Heavy Nuclei Discovered
Jan. 15, 2021 — Scientists are able to selectively knockout nucleons and preformed nuclear clusters from atomic nuclei using high-energy proton beams. In an experiment the existence of preformed helium nuclei at the ...
Stuck in a Rut: Ocean Acidification Locks Algal Communities in a Simplified State
Jan. 15, 2021 — Researchers have found that ocean acidification limits algal communities to a state of low diversity and complexity. Communities grown in waters rich in carbon dioxide (CO2) were dominated by turf ...
Spreading the Sound
Jan. 15, 2021 — Scientists are studying the motion of sound waves in glassy materials using a new theoretical model and find that they can diffuse like fluids, which may lead to the design of more resilient ...
Divergences Between Scientific and Indigenous and Local Knowledge Can Be Helpful
Jan. 15, 2021 — Divergences between scientific and Indigenous and Local Knowledge can provide a better understanding of why local pastoralists may be willing, or not, to participate in conservation initiatives for ...
Filling a Crucial Gap in Aquafarming: Ion Beam Breeding to the Rescue
Jan. 15, 2021 — Researchers successfully created a larger strain of zooplankton by creating mutations with a heavy ion beam, which contributes to improving the survival rate and growth of juvenile fish in ...
Could Altering Mealtimes Prevent Development of Type 2 Diabetes?
Jan. 15, 2021 — An innovative new study is set to examine if changing our mealtimes to earlier or later in the day could reduce the risk of developing Type 2 ...
Genital Shape Key to Male Flies' Sexual Success
Jan. 15, 2021 — Having genitals of a certain shape and size gives male flies a major reproductive advantage, new research ...
Basis for the Essential Cellular Powerhouses
Jan. 15, 2021 — Researchers have solved the operating mode of the barrel pore protein assembly in the mitochondrial outer ...
Increased Risk of Parkinson's Disease in Patients With Schizophrenia
Jan. 15, 2021 — A new study shows that patients with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder have an increased risk of Parkinson's disease later in life. The increased risk may be due to alterations in the ...
Accounting for the Gaps in Ancient Food Webs
Jan. 14, 2021 — Studying ancient food webs can help scientists reconstruct communities of species, many long extinct, and even use those insights to figure out how modern-day communities might change in the future. ...
Posidonia Marine Seagrass Can Catch and Remove Plastics from the Sea
Jan. 14, 2021 — Posidonia oceanica seagrass can take and remove plastic materials that have been left at the sea, according to a new ...
Feces and Algorithms: Artificial Intelligence to Map Our Intestinal Bacteria
Jan. 14, 2021 — The intestines and their bacteria are sometimes called our 'second brain', but studying these bacteria in their natural environment is difficult. Now researchers have developed a method ...
Teeth Pendants Speak of the Elk's Prominent Status in the Stone Age
Jan. 14, 2021 — The elk was the most important animal to the people inhabiting the northern coniferous belt, with its incisors being perhaps the most coveted part of the body. Incisors were turned into pendants, ...
Galaxies Hit Single, Doubles, and Triple (Growing Black Holes)
Jan. 14, 2021 — When three galaxies collide, what happens to the huge black holes at the centers of each? A new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other telescopes reveals new information ...
Biochemical Pathway That Protects Cells from Ferroptosis Discovered
Jan. 14, 2021 — In an article published in <i>Cell Metabolism</i>, Moffitt Cancer Center researchers report on a newly discovered biochemical pathway that protects cells from a type of cell death called ...
Physical Frailty Syndrome: A Cacophony of Multisystem Dysfunction
Jan. 14, 2021 — Aging experts synthesize converging evidence that the aging-related pathophysiology underpinning the clinical presentation of phenotypic frailty is a state of lower functioning due to severe ...
Mapping Our Sun's Backyard
Jan. 14, 2021 — Astronomers have curated the most complete list of nearby brown dwarfs to date thanks to discoveries made by thousands of volunteers participating in the Backyard Worlds citizen science project. The ...
The Richer You Are, the More Likely You'll Social Distance, Study Finds
Jan. 14, 2021 — The higher a person's income, the more likely they were to protect themselves at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, economists ...
Physical Virology Shows the Dynamics of Virus Reproduction
Jan. 14, 2021 — The reproductive cycle of viruses requires self-assembly, maturation of virus particles and, after infection, the release of genetic material into a host cell. New physics-based technologies allow ...
New Classification Marks Paradigm Shift in How Conservationists Tackle Climate Change
Jan. 14, 2021 — A new study introduces a classification called Resistance-Resilience-Transformation (RRT) that enables the assessment of whether and to what extent a management shift toward transformative action is ...
Deep Learning Outperforms Standard Machine Learning in Biomedical Research Applications
Jan. 14, 2021 — Compared to standard machine learning models, deep learning models are largely superior at discerning patterns and discriminative features in brain imaging, despite being more complex in their ...
New Way to Control Electrical Charge in 2D Materials: Put a Flake on It
Jan. 14, 2021 — Gaining control of the flow of electrical current through atomically thin materials is important to potential future applications in photovoltaics or computing. Physicists have discovered one way to ...
Study Demonstrates Efficacy of New Treatment for Neurofibromatosis Type 1-Related Tumors
Jan. 14, 2021 — Based on preclinical studies of an investigational drug to treat peripheral nerve tumors, researchers have shown that the drug, cabozantinib, reduces tumor volume and pain in patients with the ...
Cancer Research Reveals How Mutations in a Specific Gene Cause Different Types of Disease
Jan. 14, 2021 — Leading cancer expert solve long-standing question of how various types of mutations in just one gene cause different types of ...
New Method Makes Better Predictions of Material Properties Using Low Quality Data
Jan. 14, 2021 — By combining large amounts of low-fidelity data with smaller quantities of high-fidelity data, nanoengineers have developed a new machine learning method to predict the properties of materials with ...
Spectacular Fossil Discovery: 150 Million-Year-Old Shark Was One of the Largest of Its Time
Jan. 14, 2021 — A team led by Sebastian Stumpf from the University of Vienna describes an well-preserved skeleton of the ancient shark Asteracanthus. This rare fossil find comes from the famous Solnhofen limestones ...
Micro-Climate Molds and Reshapes Northern Insect Communities, Herbivory and Predation
Jan. 14, 2021 — Climate and changes in it have direct impacts on species of plant and animals - but climate may also shape more complex biological systems like food webs. Now a research group has investigated how ...
Scientists Artificially Infect Mosquitoes With Human Malaria to Advance Treatment
Jan. 14, 2021 — Scientists have identified novel antiplasmodial lead compounds for mass drug administration and vector control to eliminate ...
New Insight Into Why Breastfed Babies Have Improved Immune Systems
Jan. 14, 2021 — Research has revealed new insight into the biological mechanisms of the long-term positive health effects of ...
How Aerosols Are Formed
Jan. 14, 2021 — Researchers conducted an experiment to investigate the initial steps in the formation of aerosols. Their findings are now aiding efforts to better understand and model that process - for example, the ...
A Highly Sensitive Technique for Measuring the State of a Cytoskeleton
Jan. 14, 2021 — Researchers have developed a highly sensitive technique to quantitatively evaluate the extent of cytoskeleton bundling from microscopic images. Until now, analysis of cytoskeleton organization was ...
Giving the Hydrogen Economy an Acid Test
Jan. 14, 2021 — Scientists show that the effectiveness of hydrogen-producing metal catalysts protected by graphene depends on the ability of protons to penetrate into the inner metallic surface. This work may lead ...
A Rift in the Retina May Help Repair the Optic Nerve
Jan. 14, 2021 — In experiments in mouse tissues and human cells, researchers say they have found that removing a membrane that lines the back of the eye may improve the success rate for regrowing nerve cells damaged ...
Climate Change Is Hurting Children's Diets, Global Study Finds
Jan. 14, 2021 — An international study of 107,000 children finds that higher temperatures are an equal or even greater contributor to child malnutrition than the traditional culprits of poverty, inadequate ...
Acting Quickly After Heart Attack Symptoms Start Can Be a Heart Saver
Jan. 14, 2021 — The degree of heart muscle damage from a heart attack is associated with how long it takes from when heart attack symptoms start to when patients receive an artery-clearing procedure called ...
SolarEV City Concept: Building the Next Urban Power and Mobility Systems
Jan. 14, 2021 — Cities are responsible for 60-70% of energy-related CO2 emissions. As the world is increasingly urbanized, it is crucial to identify cost-effective pathways to decarbonize. Here, we propose a ...
A Climate in Crisis Calls for Investment in Direct Air Capture, New Research Finds
Jan. 14, 2021 — There is a growing consensus among scientists as well as national and local governments representing hundreds of millions of people, that humanity faces a climate crisis that demands a crisis ...
Human-Induced Climate Change Caused the Northwestern Pacific Warming Record in August 2020
Jan. 14, 2021 — A new study revealed that the record-warm sea surface temperature over the northwestern Pacific in August 2020 could not be expected to occur without human-induced climate changes. Such extremely ...
How the Brain Paralyzes You While You Sleep
Jan. 14, 2021 — Researchers have discovered a group of neurons in the mouse brainstem that suppress unwanted movement during rapid eye movement ...
Scientists Discover the Secret of Galápagos' Rich Ecosystem
Jan. 14, 2021 — New research has unlocked the mystery of how the Galápagos Islands, a rocky, volcanic outcrop, with only modest rainfall and vegetation, is able to sustain its unique wildlife ...
Concept for a Hybrid-Electric Plane May Reduce Aviation's Air Pollution Problem
Jan. 14, 2021 — A proposed hybrid-electric plane could 'eliminate aviation's air pollution problem,' say engineers. The new design could reduce global nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions by 95 percent, ...
Bees Respond to Wildfire Aftermath by Producing More Female Offspring
Jan. 14, 2021 — Researchers have found that the blue orchard bee, an important native pollinator, produces female offspring at higher rates in the aftermath of wildfire in ...
Early Warning Sign for Heart Disease
Jan. 13, 2021 — The build-up of calcium in a major artery outside of the heart could predict future heart attack or stroke, a new study has ...
Scientists Reveal Mechanism That Causes Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Jan. 17, 2021 — Researchers have identified the biological mechanism that explains why some people experience abdominal pain when they eat certain foods. The finding paves the way for more efficient treatment of ...
600-Year-Old Marine Sponge Holds Centuries-Old Climate Records
Jan. 14, 2021 — Scientists used a 600-year-old marine sponge to reconstruct a record of ocean temperature in the North Atlantic revealing past volcanic activity as well as the current global warming trend from the ...
Strategies to Improve Water Quality
Jan. 14, 2021 — Illinois residents value efforts to reduce watershed pollution, and they are willing to pay for environmental improvements, according to a new study from agricultural ...
Scientists Reduce Uncertainty in Forest Carbon Storage Calculations
Jan. 14, 2021 — Investors who bet on tropical forest conservation and reforestation to solve global warming by storing carbon in wood face huge uncertainties because the science behind predicting carbon stocks is ...
Giant Map of the Sky Sets Stage for Ambitious DESI Survey
Jan. 14, 2021 — Astronomers using images from Kitt Peak National Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have created the largest ever map of the sky, comprising over a billion galaxies. The ninth ...
Penned Release of Green Geckos Has Potential to Help Preserve Threatened Native Species
Jan. 14, 2021 — Researchers outlined how they translocated 19 barking geckos to Mana Island, using the method of penned release - enclosing them in a 100m² pen for three months so they get used to the site and ...
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