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UrduHUNTINGTON, W.Va. – New research from a team at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine reveals the central role of fat cells in the systemic oxidant stress observed in renal failure-associated cardiomyopathy. The research, published June 25…
Month: June 2020
Ancient disease may increase resilience to bubonic plague
Genomic variants that cause common periodic fever have spread in Mediterranean populations over centuries, potentially protecting people from the plague
Examining association between low to moderate drinking, cognitive function in adults
What The Study Did: The association between low to moderate alcohol drinking and the rate of age-related decline in cognitive function from middle to older age was investigated in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults. Authors: Changwei Li, M.D.,…
Attitudes, psychological factors associated with behaviors among adolescents during COVID-19
What The Study Did: Psychological factors associated with adolescents’ behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic are examined in this survey study. Authors: Benjamin Oosterhoff, Ph.D., of Montana State University in Bozeman, is the corresponding author. To access the embargoed study: Visit…
German federal funding for research on the differentiation of style and topic in text data
German Ministry of Education and Research is funding Sophie Burkhardt to establish a Computer Science junior research group investigating how to independently control the content and style of texts generated using artificial intelligence
Researchers control elusive spin fluctuations in 2D magnets
ITHACA, N.Y. – Like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster, critical spin fluctuations in a magnetic system haven’t been captured on film. Unlike the fabled creatures, these fluctuations – which are highly correlated electron spin patterns – do actually exist,…
New eye drops may prevent a common cause of blindness
NEW YORK, NY (June 29, 2020) — Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have developed eye drops that could prevent vision loss after retinal vein occlusion, a major cause of blindness for millions of adults worldwide. A study, in…
Columbia Engineering researchers win $2M DOE award to develop power grid risk dashboard
Three Columbia Engineering professors are integrating their expertise in power grids, optimization, and financial engineering with data science techniques to build a risk dashboard to assess and predict risks to the power grid. A $2.06M Performance-based Energy Resource Feedback, Optimization,…
Deforestation and land-clearing are taking a toll on Brazil’s corn yield
How agriculture is altering the climate of the Cerrado
Sandia weapons program meets safety, design requirements
Review shows B61-12 Life Extension Program work can move forward confidently
Closer threats inspire a more primitive kind of fear
Different use of brain circuits may help explain the tenacity of post-traumatic stress
105th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America to convene on a fully virtual platform
ESA 2020 will offer an all-virtual meeting experience August 3-6, 2020: Harnessing the ecological data revolution
Osmotic stress identified as stimulator of cellular waste disposal
Cellular waste disposal, where autophagy and lysosomes interact, performs elementary functions, such as degrading damaged protein molecules, which impair cellular function, and reintroducing the resulting building blocks such as amino acids into the metabolic system. This recycling process is known…
Protein derived from tick saliva proves effective in the treatment of equine skin cancer
Experiments were conducted by scientists affiliated with the Center of Excellence in New Target Discovery, a research center supported by FAPESP, involving five animals with spontaneous skin tumors.
Newly designed ligands for a catalytic reaction to synthesize drugs and useful compounds
Scientists spur advances in the field of drug development by designing a novel strategy to generate useful compounds
Multifunctional nanofiber protects against explosions
Material could protect soldiers, firefighters, astronauts and more
Hackensack Meridian CDI scientists uncover signposts in DNA for cancer, disease risk
Inclusion of cancer samples in detailed surveys, down to the level of single alleles, provides information about risks of cancer and some common diseases
Asteroid impact, not volcanoes, made the Earth uninhabitable for dinosaurs
Modelling of the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago shows it created a world largely unsuitable for dinosaurs to live in. The asteroid, which struck the Earth off the coast of Mexico at the end of the Cretaceous era…
Nanotechnology applied to medicine: The first liquid retina prosthesis
Liquid, biocompatible and micro-injectable, the new retinal prosthesis is an aqueous suspension of photoactive nanoparticles that functionally replace the photoreceptors of the retina damaged by degenerative diseases and aging
NIH study finds out why some words may be more memorable than others
Results suggest our brains use internet search engine strategies to remember words and memories of past experiences.
NASA-NOAA satellite animation shows the end of Tropical Cyclone Boris
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite imagery provided a look at the end of the second named tropical cyclone of the Eastern Pacific Ocean’s 2020 Hurricane Season. Tropical Cyclone Boris formed in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, June 24 and by…
Over one million barriers: New research calls for urgent action to reconnect Europe’s rivers
The EU Horizon 2020 AMBER (Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers) project created the first pan-European atlas on river barriers. Politecnico di Milano researchers involved with the AMBER project estimated that there were more than one million barriers, making…
Springer Healthcare Independent Medical Education (IME) launches new website
Healthcare professionals (HCPs) worldwide are able to maximize their learning and make measurable changes to their own practice through new website
Researchers discover unknown consumer base for unsustainable bear product use
New and expectant mothers found to use bear bile remedies for pregnancy-related ailments
Plasticity may make neurons vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease
Neurons that regularly remodel are more prone to the dysfunctions linked to the disease’s onset, a new experimental and computational study finds
Lifting weights makes your nervous system stronger, too
The first few weeks of weightlifting strengthen the reticulospinal tract, not muscles
A new antibiotic binding site was found in the ribosome
A group of scientists from Russia, Germany and the United States, led by Skoltech scientists Ilya Osterman, Petr Sergiev, Olga Dontsova and Daniel Wilson from Hamburg University, studied the mechanism by which tetracenomycin X works, blocking the process of protein…
SwRI scientists demonstrate speed, precision of in situ planetary dating device
CODEX designed to determine age of rocks on Mars, the Moon without having to return samples
Stanford-led team shows how to store data using 2D materials instead of silicon chips
Researchers have invented a way to slide atomically-thin layers of 2D materials over one another to store more data, in less space and using less energy
Stanford researchers reveal air pollution’s connection to infant mortality
Dust sweeping across the Southeast U.S. in recent days warns of a growing risk to infants and children in many parts of the world. A Stanford-led study focuses on this dust, which travels thousands of miles from the Sahara Desert,…
New study shows how tests of hearing can reveal HIV’s effects on the brain
Even with effective anti-retroviral therapy, patients infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) sustain central nervous system damage. Whether these problems can be mainly attributed to the disease, its treatments, or the body’s immune responses is still being debated, but…
No keys to the kingdom: New single sign-on algorithm provides superior privacy
Researchers develop cryptographic scheme that completely hides your personal information from third parties when using single sign-on systems.
Beavers gnawing away at the permafrost
The large rodents are massively changing landscapes in the Arctic
Optoelectronic parametric oscillator
Parametric oscillators are a driven harmonic oscillator that based on nonlinear process in a resonant cavity, which are widely used in various areas of physics. In the past, parametric oscillators have been designed in pure optical and pure electrical domain,…
Northwestern launches a national resource to unlock role of metals in human health
Partners include Argonne National Laboratory and leading research universities
Australian Space Agency backs locally-designed space suit development
Australian researchers will lead development of the next generation of space suits in a major international collaboration with NASA, the European Space Agency and leading universities.
Rice lab’s bright idea is pure gold
Physicists see surprisingly strong light, high heat from nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes
Laser-welded sugar: Sweet way to 3D-print blood vessels
Intricate sugar networks dissolve to create pathways for blood in lab-grown tissues
Cause of end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction
A study suggests that an asteroid impact, not volcanic activity, was the main cause of dinosaur extinction. Nonavian dinosaurs went extinct during the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, 66 million years ago, which coincided with both the Chicxulub asteroid impact and heightened…
Ethnolinguistic diversity and urbanization
Analysis of a fine-grained dataset on language use in 1975 and geographic distribution of populations in 2015 for 3,540 provinces in 170 countries revealed links between ethnic fractionalization–the degree to which a given population was segmented into different groups at…
Formation of transpolar auroral arcs
Researchers report that observations of bright multiple transpolar auroral arcs across Earth’s polar upper atmosphere and 3D global simulations together suggest that the auroral arcs are produced by plasma flow shears and electrical currents along Earth’s magnetic field, arising from…
Inflammation and autism spectrum disorder
Researchers report that the cytokine IL-38 inhibits release of proinflammatory molecules from human brain microglia and that IL-38 gene expression was decreased in the amygdala of eight deceased children, ages 3-14 years, with autism spectrum disorder, suggesting that low IL-38…
Oral cancer diagnosis using saliva
Researchers report an accurate, high-throughput, low-cost, and noninvasive method for diagnosing oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) that uses a combination of conductive polymer spray ionization mass spectrometry and machine learning to detect changes in a wide range of OSCC-associated metabolites…
Ocean mixing and ice melting under Ross Ice Shelf
A study examines mixing and heat transport processes under the world’s largest ice shelf. Ocean water in the cavities beneath ice shelves contributes to ice shelf melting. Craig Stevens and colleagues measured water column properties, including temperature, salinity, and oxygen…
Poison-induced mortality of red kites
By correlating field data pertaining to 1,075 poisoned red kites, which are threatened birds of prey, with changes in red kite abundance and occupancy across 274 sites in mainland Spain between 1994 and 2014, researchers found that red kite poisoning…
Sex differences in neutrophils and immunity
RNA sequencing of circulating neutrophils from 21 healthy adult women and 18 healthy adult men revealed that the females had activated, mature neutrophils characterized by enhanced proinflammatory genes and responses to inflammatory stimuli, whereas neutrophils from males were less mature…
Swine influenza virus with pandemic potential
Researchers report a swine influenza virus prevalent in China with the potential for pandemic spread in humans. Pigs are a key intermediate host, or “mixing vessel,” in the development of pandemic influenza viruses, and surveillance of swine influenza viruses (SIVs)…
Weather and spring migration in birds
Some long-distance migratory birds have flexibly adapted to weather changes in recent decades by adjusting their timing of spring migration, a study finds. Populations of long-distance migratory birds are declining worldwide–a phenomenon thought to be driven by climate change, specifically…
Understanding of relaxor ferroelectric properties could lead to many advances
A new fundamental understanding of polymeric relaxor ferroelectric behavior could lead to advances in flexible electronics, actuators and transducers, energy storage, piezoelectric sensors and electrocaloric cooling, according to a team of researchers at Penn State and North Carolina State. Researchers…
Princeton’s Nieng Yan tackles long-standing mysteries about membrane protein structure
Making moves with cryo-EM