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UrduAmerica’s overheating economy and unrest overseas have inflation soaring to heights not seen since the early 1980s. While the Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates again, Tulane economist Felix Rioja doesn’t see much relief on the horizon for…
Year: 2022
Home sweet home: Pet cats rarely stray far
The domestic cat is one of our most popular pets. In Norway alone, 5.4 million people own approximately 770,000 cats.
Decoding the Lifecycle of Photogenerated Charges
New materials will enable novel technologies to turn sunlight into electricity and fuels. Combinations of molecules and tiny nanoparticles make these materials a reality. Scientists have found a way to track electrons along their round trip from the molecules to the nanoparticles and back, helping to find where electrons can travel and where they get stuck, information that is crucial to finding better combinations for innovative materials.
MSU research could lead to new Alzheimer’s treatments
Working with tiny bacteria, Michigan State University researchers led by Lee Kroos have made a discovery that could have big implications for biology.
The researchers revealed a new way that nature can inhibit or switch off important proteins known as intramembrane proteases — pronounced “pro tea aces” — which the team reported April 26th in the journal eLife.
St. Louis Comes Together to Announce the Taylor Geospatial Institute
Leaders from St. Louis’ business, civic, academic, and governmental communities came together to celebrate the launch of the Taylor Geospatial Institute, a first-of-its-kind institution that brings together eight leading research institutions to collaborate on research into geospatial technology
NIH awards Joseph Mikels $2.6 million to research motivation and health
Tapping into positive emotions and social connections may be key to motivating older adults to exercise. DePaul University psychology professor Joseph Mikels has been awarded a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue his work on emotion, aging and decision-making throughout the life span.
Researchers develop a paper-thin loudspeaker
MIT engineers have developed a paper-thin loudspeaker that can turn any surface into an active audio source.
Social Capital is a Key Driver of Small Business: New Study
Why do small businesses exploit business opportunities better in some areas than others? Maryland Smith researchers show that local social capital (trust, cooperation level among residents) strongly predicts loan uptake after controlling for close-by bank branches, income and education.
Could the blueprint for life have been generated in asteroids?
Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in samples from meteorites.
Six in ten people with COVID-19 still have a least one symptom a year later, long Covid study reveals
Six in ten people with COVID-19 still have at least one symptom a year later, a new study being presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (23-26 April) has found.
Ocean explorer Robert Ballard will deliver University of Rhode Island commencement address, May 22
Ocean explorer and professor of oceanography Robert Ballard will deliver the keynote address for the University of Rhode Island’s 136th Undergraduate Commencement. WaterFire founder and executive artistic director Barnaby M. Evans will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
UNC Landmark Study Paves the Way for Universal Obstetric Ultrasound
Establishing accurate gestational age with ultrasound early is essential to delivering high-quality care. Yet, the high cost for equipment and the need for trained sonographers limits its use in low-resource settings. A new study introduces a novel opportunity to democratize obstetric ultrasound.
Seven Ways to Keep Your Heart Healthy This Spring
With the icy patches of winter behind us, it’s time to welcome the bright sun, mild temps and feeling of renewal that is the spring season. What better time than spring to assess and improve on some of our heart-healthy…
Talk therapy may alleviate depression and improve quality of life for people with dementia
Feelings of anxiety and depression are common in people living with dementia and mild cognitive impairment, but the best way to treat these symptoms is currently unknown, as medicines often used to treat these symptoms may not be effective for people with dementia and may cause side effects.
Serious violence peaked after COVID-19 restrictions eased – report
Serious violence increased by nearly a quarter following the easing of COVID-19 lockdown in England and Wales, according to a new report by Cardiff University.
Classifying exoplanet atmospheres opens new field of study
An international team of researchers examined data for 25 exoplanets and found some links among the properties of the atmospheres, including the thermal profiles and chemical abundances in them.
2 out of 3 women with depression or anxiety say they’ve reached their “breaking point,” yet more than half wait a year before seeking treatment
Two out of three women diagnosed with depression or anxiety say they have reached or are approaching their breaking point regarding their mental health, according to the GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor, a new nationwide survey from Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN).
Rates of handgun carriage rise among US adolescents, particularly White, rural, and higher income teens, new study finds
Handgun carrying increased significantly among rural, White and higher-income adolescents from 2002 to 2019, ominously escalating the risk of firearm-related death or injury for both these youths and others in their social sphere, researchers from Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development report in the latest edition of the journal Pediatrics.
Researchers use muonic x-rays to find elemental makeup of samples without damaging them
By combining technologies originally designed for high-energy particle accelerators and astronomy observations, researchers can now for the first time analyze the elemental makeup of samples without damaging them, which could be useful for researchers working in other fields such as archaeology, reports a new study in Scientific Reports.
FSU expert available to comment on antisemitic violence
By: Bill Wellock | Published: April 26, 2022 | 12:39 pm | SHARE: Reported antisemitic incidents in the United States reached their highest level ever in 2021, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported.ADL noted 2,717 incidents last year, a 34% increase from 2020. It is the highest number since the organization began tracking incidents in 1979.
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Nurses to Share Knowledge and Best Practices during 47th Annual Oncology Nursing Society Congress
Oncology Nurses from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey together with RWJBarnabas Health will be presenting at the Oncology Nursing Society’s (ONS) 47th Annual Congress being held April 27 to May 1 in Anaheim, California.
Finding Terra Incognita
A combination of atmospheric measurements and fine-scale simulations has improved understanding of the modeling anomalies that arise when the model resolution approximates the length scale of turbulence features — an atmospheric simulation problem known as Terra Incognita.
American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology Announces 2022 Fellows Candidates
The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) recently announced that it has selected 51 distinguished leaders in the profession of nurse anesthesiology as candidates to be inducted into the 2022 Class of Fellows. The inductees will be recognized for their significant contributions to the profession at the AANA’s Annual Congress, taking place on Aug. 12-16 in Chicago.
Louisiana Gov. Edwards welcomes participants to Gulf of Mexico Conference (GOMCON)
More than 800 coastal scientists, managers, and professionals from federal and state agencies, academia, non-profits and industry have come together this week in Baton Rouge to network, collaborate and discuss coastal research and management in the Gulf of Mexico as part of the first-ever in-person Gulf of Mexico Conference (#GOMCON).
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards welcomed guests to the state Tuesday, during the opening plenary.
New Collaboration Between RCSB Protein Data Bank and Amazon Web Services Provides Expanded Data Storage and Access to Researchers Worldwide
The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB), headquartered at the Rutgers Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, announces the expansion of its data storage capacity through the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Data Sponsorship Program. The AWS program is providing the RCSB PDB with more than 100 terabytes of storage for no-cost delivery of Protein Data Bank information to millions of scientists, educators, and students around the world working in fundamental biology, biomedicine, bioenergy, and bioengineering/biotechnology.
New survey reveals most Americans say sun protection is more important now than five years ago, yet many misunderstand how to protect themselves
In a recent survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults, the American Academy of Dermatology found that while respondents gave themselves high ratings for sun protection and most reported that sun protection is more important to them now than it was five years ago, there’s still a lot they don’t know about how to protect themselves from the sun and the risks of sun exposure, including skin cancer —the most common cancer in the U.S.
Protecting species for the good of global climate
When the global community is expected to meet for the second part of the UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, in autumn, it must also adopt the next generation of UN biodiversity targets.
Expert Alert: Mayo Clinic expert shares tips for good outcomes after hip, knee replacement surgery
Patients can make lifestyle changes before surgery to improve their chances of successful outcomes, according to Matthew Abdel, M.D., a Mayo Clinic orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hip and knee replacement. However, patients also should be aware that other practices before surgery won’t help outcomes or are still inconclusive.
Rare, endangered insects and spiders illegally for sale online
Endangered and threatened insects and spiders, as well as common species that provide valuable ecological services, can be easily purchased – without adequate oversight – through basic internet searches, according to a new Cornell University study.
AI May Detect Earliest Signs of Pancreatic Cancer
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by Cedars-Sinai investigators accurately predicted who would develop pancreatic cancer based on what their CT scan images looked like years prior to being diagnosed with the disease. The findings, which may help prevent death through early detection of one of the most challenging cancers to treat, are published in the journal Cancer Biomarkers.
The significance of all life can be left in traceable way: Freshwater pearl mussels
Freshwater pearl mussels are found in rivers in Japan.
Complex Networks Help Explain Extreme Rainfall Events
In Chaos, researchers propose using a complex-network-based clustering workflow to search for synchronized structures of extreme rainfall events within the context of atmospheric chaos. By doing this, they were able to reconstruct a functional climate network to encode the underlying interaction of the climate system. Clusters on the network revealed regions of similar climatological behaviors. This means extreme rainfalls within different locations are not independent of each other but have a certain degree of similarity.
COVID-19 Lockdown Measures Affect Air Pollution from Cities Differently
In Chaos, researchers in China created a network model drawn from the traffic index and air quality index of 21 cities across six regions in their country to quantify how traffic emissions from one city affect another. They leveraged data from COVID-19 lockdown procedures to better explain the relationship between traffic and air pollution and turned to a weighted climate network framework to model each city as a node using data from 2019 and 2020. They added a two-layer network that incorporated different regions, lockdown stages, and outbreak levels.
Mount Sinai Researchers Discover How Early-Stage Breast Cancer Can Become a Silent Killer in Some Patients
Mount Sinai researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism in which not-yet-malignant cells from early breast cancer tumors travel to other organs and, eventually, “turn on” and become metastatic breast cancer.
Inteligência artificial reduz a taxa de falha na identificação de pólipos pré-cancerosos no exame de triagem de câncer colorretal
A inteligência artificial reduziu em duas vezes a taxa de pólipos pré-cancerosos não identificados no exame de triagem de câncer colorretal, relatou uma equipe internacional de pesquisadores liderados pela Mayo Clinic. O estudo foi publicado na revista científica Gastroenterology.
Inteligencia artificial reduce tasa de pólipos precancerosos que se pasan por alto en detección del cáncer colorrectal
La inteligencia artificial redujo a la mitad la tasa de pólipos precancerosos que se pasan por alto en la detección del cáncer colorrectal, informó un equipo compuesto por investigadores internacionales y dirigido por Mayo Clinic. El estudio se publicó en Gastroenterology.
Johns Hopkins Medicine Researchers Awarded Nearly $8 Million from Break Through Cancer Foundation
The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Departments of Gynecology/Obstetrics, Neurosurgery and Pathology have been awarded more than $7.8 million for novel, multicenter projects designed to intercept and find cures for several deadly cancers, including pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, and the brain cancer known as glioblastoma.
Thyroid hormone replacement undertreatment linked to worse hospital outcomes
Undertreatment with thyroid hormone replacement can put patients with hypothyroidism at risk for worse hospital outcomes, including longer length of stay and higher rates of readmission, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
When it Comes to Preventing Alzheimer’s, Women and Men are Not Created Equal
A study is the first to examine if sex significantly affects cognitive outcomes in people who follow individually-tailored, multi-domain clinical interventions. The study also determined whether change in risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), along with blood markers of AD risk, also were affected by sex. Results showed that while care in an Alzheimer’s Prevention Clinic setting is equally effective at improving cognitive function in both women and men, the personally-tailored interventions used by the researchers led to greater improvements in women compared to men across AD and CVD disease risk scales, as well blood biomarkers of risk such as blood sugar, LDL cholesterol, and the diabetes test HbA1C. Findings are important because women are disproportionately affected by AD and population-attributable risk models suggest that managing risk factors can prevent up to one-third of dementia cases.
Modeling Study Projects 21st Century Droughts Will Increase Human Migration
Drought and the potential increase in the number of droughts worldwide due to climate change remains a concern for scientists. A recent study led by Stony Brook University researchers suggests that human migration due to droughts will increase by at least 200 percent as we move through the 21st Century.
Study suggests early self-awareness of autism leads to better quality of life
People who learn they are autistic when they are younger may have a heightened quality of life and sense of well-being in adulthood.
Study looks at Impact of Native American Land Use on Forests
In a new article published in the Journal of Biogeography, SUNY Geneseo geographer Associate Professor Stephen Tulowiecki and four undergraduate researchers examined the influence of Native American land use on the composition of historic forests in the Northeastern United States. The team found that Native American settlements and land use had a lesser effect on the distribution of tree species across the region when compared to climate and soil conditions.
Ecotourism is having a negative effect on primate’s behaviour
New research shows that the increase in primate ecotourism is having a negative effect on monkey’s behaviour. The study, led by the University of Portsmouth, found that this fast-growing tourism sector where tourists can conveniently reach primates via motor boats is causing stress-related behaviours in monkeys.
Stress during Pregnancy May Lead to Heart Disease, Accelerated Aging in Next Generation
Prenatal stress can cause damage in the aorta in offspring, which may contribute to the development of atherosclerosis and accelerate aging, according to a new study in mice. The article is published ahead of print in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.
Just over half of Michigan pharmacies offer overdose-fighting naloxone without prescription
Despite the ability of any Michigan pharmacy to dispense medication to combat opioid overdose without writing prescriptions, slightly more than half of pharmacies in the state offer the drug in such a way.
Where the mind is without fear: Scientists discover mechanism behind the chemically induced suppression of fearful memories
Tragic events like wars, famines, earthquakes, and accidents create fearful memories in our brain. These memories continue to haunt us even after the actual event has passed.
Extremely rapid up-and-down motions of island arc crust during arc-continent collision
Mountain building and the rock cycle often involve large vertical crustal motions, but theirrates and timescales in unmetamorphosed rocks remain poorly understood.We utilize high-resolution magneto-biostratigraphy and backstripping analysis of marine deposits in an activearc-continent suture zone of eastern Taiwan to…
Asthma drug can block crucial SARS-CoV-2 protein
A drug used to treat asthma and allergies can bind to and block a crucial protein produced by the virus SARS-CoV-2, and reduce viral replication in human immune cells, according to a new study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
Think fast! Clever monkeys plan their food trips to avoid stronger rivals
Vervet monkeys are quick and clever planners of the best route to follow on foraging trips, shows a new study.
Bean cultivation in diverse agricultural landscapes promotes bees and increases yields
Pollination by insects is essential for the production of many food crops.