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Agricultural trade across US states can mitigate economic impacts of climate change
Credit: University of Illinois.
URBANA, Ill. – Agricultural producers deal firsthand with changing weather conditions, and extreme events such as drought or flooding can impact their productivity and profit. Climate change!-->!-->…
$3M awarded to orthopedics researcher to study role of gut microbiome on osteoarthritis
Michael Zuscik, Ph.D., says the research could lead to the first disease-modifying treatment for patients with osteoarthritis
Credit: Michael Zuscik, PhD
Osteoarthritis affects the joints, but according to researcher Michael Zuscik,!-->!-->…
From smoky skies to a green horizon: Scientists convert fire-risk wood waste into biofuel
A simplified new process transforms wood waste from agriculture and forest management into ethanol
Credit: Berkeley Lab
Reliance on petroleum fuels and raging wildfires: Two separate, large-scale challenges that could be addressed!-->!-->…
AI pinpoints local pollution hotspots using satellite images
Technique could help find sources of heavy air pollution and allow researchers to better study its effects on human health and make more socially just policy decisions
Credit: Tongshu Zheng, Duke University
DURHAM, N.C. –!-->!-->…
Medically savvy smartphone imaging systems
Development of smartphone-based imaging systems for medicine and healthcare can be optimized by newly published guidelines for holistic assessment
Credit: Hunt et al., doi 10.1117/1.JBO.26.4.040902
Smartphones get smarter every day.!-->!-->…
Thirdhand smoke exposure linked to fabric type, heat, and humidity
UC Riverside-led team developed simple, rapid method to assess contaminants in household fabrics
Credit: University Communications, UC Riverside.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A study led by scientists at the University of California,!-->!-->…
Measuring neutron star squeezability
NICER collaboration, NASA astronaut reveal size of most massive neutron star, highlight Space Station science
Credit: NASA / Walt Feimer
A team of scientists used a telescope on the International Space Station to measure the size of!-->!-->…
Southeast Regional Sun Grant Center announces grant recipients
Supporting innovation in sustainable, bio-derived products
Credit: Image courtesy UTIA.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Southeast Regional Sun Grant Center at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture is pleased to announce!-->!-->…
Understanding the growth of disease-causing protein fibres
UK researchers from the University of Bath and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source have developed a method to directly measure the growth rate of ‘amyloid’ fibrils linked to Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and other…
New NASA visualization probes the light-bending dance of binary black holes
Credit: Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman and Brian P. Powell
A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic pas de deux in a new NASA visualization. The!-->!-->…
Study: New approach may boost prostate cancer immunotherapies
Strategy focuses on reprogramming tissues surrounding the tumor to help the body’s immune system attack the cancer
Credit: Cedars-Sinai
LOS ANGELES (April 15, 2021) — Researchers have discovered a new way to transform!-->!-->…
Long-term survival rates for immunotherapies could be misinterpreted
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed cancer care to the point where the popular Cox proportional-hazards model provides misleading estimates of the treatment effect, according!-->!-->…
Plastics could see a second life as biodegradable surfactants
Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory
Scientists at the Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP), an Energy Frontier Research Center led by Ames Laboratory, have discovered a chemical process that!-->!-->…
Peering through the clouds of Earth’s ‘Evil Twin’ surprises NRL sky watchers
Credit: Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher
WASHINGTON – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientists were recently left scratching their heads over a familiar!-->!-->…
COVID-19 reduces access to opioid dependency treatment for new patients
Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University
COVID-19 has been associated with increases in opioid overdose deaths, which may be in part because the pandemic limited access to buprenorphine, a treatment used for opioid dependency,!-->!-->…
Lung cancer screening predicts risk of death from heart disease
Credit: Radiological Society of North America
OAK BROOK, Ill. – A deep learning algorithm accurately predicts the risk of death from cardiovascular disease using information from low-dose CT exams performed for lung cancer…
New benefits from anti-diabetic drug metformin
Metformin inhibits disease progression in non-diabetic chronic kidney disease (ND-CKD)
Credit: Professor Hirofumi Kai
Researchers from Kumamoto University (Japan) have found that the anti-diabetic drug metformin significantly!-->!-->…
Norovirus clusters are resistant to environmental stresses and UV disinfection, new study finds
Findings suggest need to reconsider current disinfection, sanitation and hygiene practices
Credit: NIH
WASHINGTON (April 15, 2021) — Clusters of a virus known to cause stomach flu are resistant to detergent and ultraviolet!-->!-->…
More than $700,000 from CIHR to study the bacteria that causes meningitis
Understanding the mechanism of pathogenesis of nasopharyngeal bacteria could lead to innovative treatment options
Credit: Christian Fleury (INRS)
Professor Frédéric Veyrier of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique!-->!-->…
How can we conserve Seychelles giant trevallies?
Revealing where and why giant trevally roam as they grow helps us understand how to better protect them
Credit: Photo © Ryan Daly
Geneva, 15th April 2021 – When it was shown launching out of the sea to snatch birds from the!-->!-->…