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August 3, 2024
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Aug. 1, 2024 — Humans and baker's yeast have more in common than meets the eye, including an important mechanism that helps ensure DNA is copied correctly, reports a pair of studies. The findings visualize for the ...
July 25, 2024 — We all know what it's like when the penny suddenly drops. Animals too experience such moments of insight. They could prove useful for research of ...
July 22, 2024 — Researchers have found a new way to identify genetic targets useful for control of mosquito populations, potentially offering an alternative to insecticides. Their study focused on the genetic basis of species incompatibility. They crossed Ae. ...
July 25, 2024 — Findings from a small, proof-of-concept clinical trial have suggested that fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) can boost the effectiveness of immunotherapy in a range of gastrointestinal cancers. In ...
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Aug. 1, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new model to explain the formation of giant planets such as Jupiter, which furnishes deeper insights into the processes of planet formation and could expand our ...
July 25, 2024 — 3D-printed blood vessels, which closely mimic the properties of human veins, could transform the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Strong, flexible, gel-like tubes -- created using a novel 3D ...
July 23, 2024 — A new study shows that over half of the medicines stocked in space -- staples such as pain relievers, antibiotics, allergy medicines, and sleep aids -- would expire before astronauts could return to ...
July 23, 2024 — Psychologists have used the hit TV series Game of Thrones to understand how the brain enables us to recognize faces. Their findings provide new insights into prosopagnosia or face blindness, a ...
July 22, 2024 — Dogs experience emotional contagion from the smell of human stress, leading them to make more 'pessimistic' choices, new research finds. Researchers ...
July 16, 2024 — A new study on common food aromas may help explain why astronauts report that meals taste bland in space and struggle to eat their normal nutritional intake. This research has broader implications ...
July 17, 2024 — A new collaboration explores the neural substrates of blushing in a MRI ...
July 17, 2024 — Researchers report that psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, destabilizes a critical network of brain areas involved in introspective thinking. The findings provide a neurobiological ...
July 17, 2024 — Pet cats may be excellent animal models for the study of obesity origins and treatment in humans, a new study of feline gut microbes suggests -- and both species would likely get healthier in the ...
July 17, 2024 — Snot might not be the first place you'd expect nanobots to be swimming around. But this slimy secretion exists in more places than just your nose and piles of dirty tissues -- it also lines and helps ...
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July 19, 2024 — A new essay explores which conditions must be met for consciousness to exist. At least one of them can't be found in a ...
July 17, 2024 — During an event, details like what you saw, smelled, and felt aren't stored as a single memory. Rather, they are encoded and stored in your brain separately. To retrieve that memory, those ...
July 16, 2024 — For the first time, scientists have found that sleep can be detected by patterns of neuronal activity just milliseconds long, 1000 times shorter than a second, revealing a new way to study and ...
July 15, 2024 — New results could ultimately help lead to interventions that spark creative thought or aid people who have mental illnesses that disrupt these regions of the ...
July 11, 2024 — Using genomes from 2,000 living humans as well as three Neanderthals and one Denisovan, an international team mapped the gene flow between the hominin groups over the past quarter-million ...
July 11, 2024 — The flow of water within a muscle fiber may dictate how quickly muscle can contract, according to a new ...
July 10, 2024 — Researchers discovered that feedback plus cash incentives designed with insights from behavioral science reduces phone use while ...
July 9, 2024 — Investigators sought to help figure out how to send materials like probiotics into space and to better treat a variety of gastrointestinal (GI) and metabolic diseases. The team's formulations ...
July 4, 2024 — In a new paper, researchers and citizen mycologists describe the two new species as Psilocybe ingeli and Psilocybe maluti. The paper also contains information on the traditional use of P. maluti by ...
July 2, 2024 — Everyday clothing may soon be able to capture and record body movements according to new ...
July 2, 2024 — A colder nose and warmer cheeks may be a telltale sign of rising blood pressure. Researchers discovered that temperatures in different face regions are associated with various chronic illnesses, such ...
July 1, 2024 — Computer scientists have invented a camera mechanism that improves how robots see and react to the world around them. Inspired by how the human eye works, their innovative camera system mimics the ...
June 28, 2024 — A new study has produced supranormal hearing in mice, while also supporting a hypothesis on the cause of hidden hearing loss in ...
June 26, 2024 — Engineers have developed a pill that releases microscopic robots, or microrobots, into the colon to treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The experimental treatment, given orally, has shown success ...
June 26, 2024 — A new study has found evidence linking the intake of whole-sized small fish with a reduced risk of all-cause and cancer mortality in Japanese ...
June 25, 2024 — Scientists are helping to develop standards and safety protocols that would allow pharmacies to print drugs onsite at a dosage best for ...
June 25, 2024 — Computers have come so far in terms of their power and potential, rivaling and even eclipsing human brains in their ability to store and crunch data, make predictions and communicate. But there is ...
June 25, 2024 — Researchers have succeeded in directing floating objects around an aquatic obstacle course using only soundwaves. Their novel, optics-inspired method holds great promise for biomedical applications ...
June 24, 2024 — Meet CARMEN, short for Cognitively Assistive Robot for Motivation and Neurorehabilitation -- a small, tabletop robot designed to help people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) learn skills to ...
June 20, 2024 — Scientists have developed a new, more energy-efficient way for AI algorithms to process data. His model may become the basis for a new generation of AI that learns like we do. Notably, these findings ...
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- 'A History of Contact': Geneticists Are Rewriting the Narrative of Neanderthals and Other Ancient Humans
- Muscle Machine: How Water Controls the Speed of Muscle Contraction
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- Clever Clothes! Seams in Clothing Capture Body Movement
- Doctors Could Soon Use Facial Temperature for Early Diagnosis of Metabolic Diseases
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- Microrobot-Packed Pill Shows Promise for Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Mice
- Eating Small Fish Whole Can Prolong Life Expectancy, a Japanese Study Finds
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
- Your Future Medications Could Be Personalized for You on a 3D Printer
- Next Platform for Brain-Inspired Computing
- Moving Objects Precisely With Sound
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- Swimming Microrobots Deliver Cancer-Fighting Drugs to Metastatic Lung Tumors in Mice
- Ingestible Microbiome Sampling Pill Technology Advances
- To Heal Skin, Scientists Invent Living Bioelectronics
- Towards a New Era in Flexible Piezoelectric Sensors for Both Humans and Robots
- AI-Powered Simulation Training Improves Human Performance in Robotic Exoskeletons
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
- Research on the Visual Rabbit Illusion Takes a Leap Forward
- Would Astronauts' Kidneys Survive a Roundtrip to Mars?
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- Scientists Invent 'living Bioelectronics' That Can Sense and Heal Skin
- Picture This: Snapping Photos of Our Food Could Be Good for Us
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- Chicken Feathers to Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs and Repair Enzymes
- Public Have No Difficulty Getting to Grips With an Extra Thumb, Study Finds
Friday, May 24, 2024
- Imperceptible Sensors Made from 'electronic Spider Silk' Can Be Printed Directly on Human Skin
- AI Headphones Let Wearer Listen to a Single Person in a Crowd, by Looking at Them Just Once
Thursday, May 23, 2024
- Psychedelic Drug-Induced Hyperconnectivity in the Brain Helps Clarify Altered Subjective Experiences
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- Eurasian Jays Can Use 'mental Time Travel' Like Humans, Study Finds
- Robots' And Prosthetic Hands' Sense of Touch Could Be as Fast as Humans
- Some Mice May Owe Their Monogamy to a Newly Evolved Type of Cell
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- Study Uses Artificial Intelligence to Show How Personality Influences the Expression of Our Genes
- Universal Brain-Computer Interface Lets People Play Games With Just Their Thoughts
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- Scientists Extract Genetic Secrets from 4,000-Year-Old Teeth to Illuminate the Impact of Changing Human Diets Over the Centuries
- Did You Know That Physical Activity Can Protect You from Chronic Pain?
- Secrets of the Naked Mole-Rat: New Study Reveals How Their Unique Metabolism Protects Them from Heart Attacks
- A Decade of Aphantasia Research: What We've Learned About People Who Can't Visualize
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- Researchers Show That Introduced Tardigrade Proteins Can Slow Metabolism in Human Cells
- Beethoven's Genes Reveal Low Predisposition for Beat Synchronization
Monday, March 25, 2024
- New Archive of Ancient Human Brains Challenges Misconceptions of Soft Tissue Preservation
- Artificial Nanofluidic Synapses Can Store Computational Memory
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- Researchers Develop Artificial Building Blocks of Life
- CSI in Space: Analyzing Bloodstain Patterns in Microgravity
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
- Space Tourism? Cosmic Radiation Exposure
- Sprinting 'like a Jet' Will Produce Premier League Strikers of Tomorrow, Study Shows
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- AI Outperforms Humans in Standardized Tests of Creative Potential
- Study Identifies Multi-Organ Response to Seven Days Without Food
Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Scientists ID Burned Bodies Using Technique Used for Extracting DNA from Woolly Mammoths, Neanderthals
- Radio Waves Can Tune Up Bacteria to Become Life-Saving Medicines
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- Smart Earrings Can Monitor a Person's Temperature
- How Teachers Make Ethical Judgments When Using AI in the Classroom