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'4/2/2025 2:13:08 PM'

Southern Ocean warming will mean a wetter West Coast, US

As global temperatures warm, the Southern Ocean -- between Antarctica and other continents -- will eventually release heat absorbed from the atmosphere, leading to projected long-term increases in precipitation over East Asia and the Western U.S.,...

'4/2/2025 12:06:57 PM'

Novel point-of-care technology delivers accurate HIV results in minutes

The technology described uses a nanomechanical platform and tiny cantilevers to detect multiple HIV antigens at high sensitivity in a matter of minutes. These silicon cantilevers are cheap and easy to mass produce and can be readily equipped with ...

'4/2/2025 12:06:51 PM'

Study finds nearly five-fold increase in hospitalizations for common cause of stroke

Cervical artery dissection is a tear in an artery in the neck that provides blood flow to the brain. Such a tear can result in blood clots that cause stroke. A new study has found almost a five-fold increase in the number of U.S. hospitalizations ...

'4/2/2025 10:24:30 AM'

Study reveals how alcohol abuse damages cognition

For the first time researchers demonstrate in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making.

'4/2/2025 10:23:55 AM'

Scientists unveil starfish-inspired wearable tech for heart monitoring

When we move, it's harder for existing wearable devices to accurately track our heart activity. But researchers found that a starfish's five-arm shape helps solve this problem. Inspired by how a starfish flips itself over -- shrinking one of its a...

'4/2/2025 9:57:32 AM'

First guideline on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis calls for changes in practice to improve outcomes

The United States Cystic Fibrosis Foundation released the first guideline on newborn screening for cystic fibrosis (CF), in order to improve timely detection of CF in infants from all racial and ethnic backgrounds. The new guideline reflects rigor...

'4/2/2025 8:30:41 AM'

Retinal therapy may restore lost vision

Researchers have successfully developed a novel drug to restore vision. The treatment method restores vision through retinal nerve regeneration.

'4/2/2025 8:28:55 AM'

Galaxies die earlier than expected

For a long time, scientists thought that only actively star-forming galaxies should be observed in the very early Universe. The James Webb space telescope now reveals that galaxies stopped forming stars earlier than expected. A recent discovery de...

'4/2/2025 8:28:51 AM'

Multi-resistance in bacteria predicted by AI model

An AI model trained on large amounts of genetic data can predict whether bacteria will become antibiotic-resistant. The new study shows that antibiotic resistance is more easily transmitted between genetically similar bacteria and mainly occurs in...

'4/2/2025 8:28:48 AM'

Gold battles cancer

Precious metals are not merely ornaments; they are also important components of pharmaceuticals, like the antitumor drug cisplatin. Recently, the search for alternatives with improved activity has begun to focus on gold. A research team has now pu...

'4/2/2025 8:28:46 AM'

Transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks

Applied physicists have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum computers.

'4/2/2025 8:28:44 AM'

Nurses and AI collaborate to save lives, reduce hospital stays

An AI tool that analyzes nurses' data and notes detected when patients in the hospital were deteriorating nearly two days earlier than traditional methods and reduced the risk of death by over 35%.

'4/2/2025 8:28:41 AM'

Study tracks chromium chemistry in irradiated molten salts

Chemists report that radiation-induced chemical reactions may help mitigate the corrosion of metals in a new type of nuclear reactor cooled by molten salts.

'4/2/2025 8:28:39 AM'

Seeing humanity's transition from hunting to farming as a cultural shift

Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal demographics and the significant impact of human...

'4/2/2025 8:28:36 AM'

Metamaterials: Highly twisted rods store large amounts of energy

An international research team has developed mechanical metamaterials with a high elastic energy density. Highly twisted rods that deform helically provide these metamaterials with a high stiffness and enable them to absorb and release large amoun...

'4/2/2025 8:27:28 AM'

Being physically active, even just a couple of days a week, may be key to better health

A 'weekend warrior' approach to physical activity -- getting 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity over one to two days instead of throughout the week -- improved health and lowered the risk of death, finds a new stud.

'4/2/2025 8:26:19 AM'

Asteroid impact threat estimates improved for the Earth and the Moon

An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 percent.

'4/2/2025 8:26:17 AM'

Blood test may rule out future dementia risk

Researchers have demonstrated how specific biomarkers in the blood can predict the development of dementia up to ten years before diagnosis, among older adults living independently in the community.

'4/2/2025 8:26:11 AM'

A new wave in ultrafast magnetic control

Researchers have developed an innovative method to study ultrafast magnetism in materials. They have shown the generation and application of magnetic field steps, in which a magnetic field is turned on in a matter of picoseconds.

'4/2/2025 8:26:09 AM'

'Is that my career over?': Reflections of elite athletes during pregnancy

Elite athletes have shared their worries about their sports career after pregnancy.

'4/2/2025 8:26:06 AM'

Plant doctor: An AI system that watches over urban trees without touching a leaf

Monitoring urban plant health traditionally requires extensive manual labor and botanical expertise, creating challenges for cities facing expanding green spaces, higher population densities, and increasing threats to plants. Now, researchers have...

'4/2/2025 8:26:03 AM'

New antibiotic for multidrug resistant superbug

Researchers discover a new class of antibiotic that selectively targets Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhoea. These substances trigger a self-destruction program, which also operates in multi-resistant variants of the pathog...

'4/2/2025 8:24:53 AM'

Smartwatch technology could help with future alcohol interventions

New research suggests that smartwatches could provide a more accurate picture of people's daily drinking habits than current methods. The technology could be a key element for future alcohol interventions.

'4/2/2025 8:24:51 AM'

Migrating flies vital for people and nature

Buzzing insects may be seen as pests -- but globally, hundreds of fly species migrate over long distances, with major benefits for people and nature, new research shows.

'4/2/2025 8:24:46 AM'

How the brain evaluates rewards

Researchers have gained a new understanding of how the brain processes reward and risk information. Neuroscientists show how nerve cells in the so-called amygdala not only encode the probability and magnitude of rewards, but also dynamically proce...

'4/2/2025 8:24:43 AM'

When it comes to obesity-related cancers, where you shop for food matters

Obesity is at epidemic proportions in the United States where more than 40% of adults are obese and more than 70% are overweight. One common policy intervention to tackle this urgent issue is to try to improve diet quality by increasing local groc...

'4/2/2025 8:23:41 AM'

Biodegradable fake fingernails make manicures more sustainable

A new kind of press-on nails come in all shapes and colors -- and when you're done with them, you can melt them down and reuse the materials to make your next look.

'4/2/2025 8:23:36 AM'

Researchers use 'smart' bomb therapy to destroy breast cancer

Scientists are working to create a new light-activated 'smart' bomb to treat aggressive breast cancer. The new light-sensitive chemicals called cyanine-carborane salts are used in photodynamic therapy, or PDT, to destroy metastatic breast cancer t...

'4/2/2025 8:23:33 AM'

Insight from one of Milky Way's most extreme environments

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

'4/2/2025 8:23:31 AM'

Reducing risk of embankment slope failures along roads

Based on their findings, the researchers noted there are practical solutions that could have prevented collapse of the embankment slope investigated in this study. Their recommendations include using stabilizing agents, like cement, to reduce the ...

'4/2/2025 8:21:57 AM'

Miso made in space tastes nuttier

Miso is a traditional Japanese condiment made by fermenting cooked soybeans and salt. Researchers successfully made miso on the International Space Station (ISS). They found that the miso smelled and tasted similar to miso fermented on Earth -- ju...

'4/2/2025 8:21:55 AM'

World's smallest pacemaker is activated by light

Smaller than a grain of rice, new pacemaker is particularly suited to the small, fragile hearts of newborn babies with congenital heart defects. Tiny pacemaker is paired with a small, soft, flexible wearable patch that sits on the patient's chest....

'4/2/2025 8:21:49 AM'

Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk

A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnoses by 20% -- more than any other known intervention.

'4/2/2025 8:21:46 AM'

First ancient genomes from the Green Sahara deciphered

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment. By analyzing the DNA of two 7,000-year-old natur...

'4/2/2025 8:20:36 AM'

Rates of breast and colorectal cancer screening nearly four-fold higher than lung cancer screening among those eligible

Lung cancer screening has the potential to catch lung cancer early and save lives -- but only if people get screened. Although lung cancer screening is recommended in the U.S. for certain individuals with a history of smoking, only 18% of eligible...

'4/2/2025 8:20:31 AM'

Researchers explore using soil for heat storage

When spring arrives and the heating season comes to an end, keeping warm becomes less of an issue. However, scientists remind us that it is not just a seasonal necessity -- heat is also a valuable energy resource that can be stored and used when n...

'4/2/2025 8:20:28 AM'

Electrochemical process separates valuable industrial chemicals from animal waste

A collaboration between chemical engineers and animal scientists has created a system for recovering valuable industrial chemicals from animal waste, representing a major step towards circularity and environmental sustainability.

'4/2/2025 8:20:20 AM'

Researchers concerned about rise in nitrous oxide misuse, deaths in US

Despite a recent Food and Drug Administration warning against inhaling nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, deaths due to misusing the substance are rising in the United States.

'4/2/2025 8:20:18 AM'

In pancreatic cancer, a race against time

Scientists have found a way to 'intercept' pancreatic cancer. By inhibiting the cancer gene FGFR2, they were able to slow tumor formation. By targeting the FGFR2 and EGFR proteins, they were able to prevent pancreatic cancer from forming in the fi...

'4/1/2025 7:34:54 PM'

Mammals were adapting from life in the trees to living on the ground before dinosaur-killing asteroid

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

'4/1/2025 1:49:07 PM'

Rocky Mountain snow is contaminated, study shows

Mountain snowpacks accumulate snow throughout the winter, building up stores of water that will supply communities across the American West throughout the long dry season. Now, a new study shows that as storms carry snow to the Rocky Mountains, th...

'4/1/2025 1:49:00 PM'

New insight into factors associated with a common disease among dogs and humans

For dogs housed at Texas kennels, age and fecal score are important factors for screening for subclinical Giardia infections.

'4/1/2025 11:16:41 AM'

A borrowed bacterial gene allowed some marine diatoms to live on a seaweed diet

A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus, gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from their environment, thanks to a bacterial gene picked up by an ancestor, according to a new study.

'4/1/2025 11:16:39 AM'

Balance between two competing nerve proteins deters symptoms of autism in mice

In mice, autism symptoms arise when a certain pair of competing nerve proteins falls out of equilibrium, according to a new study.

'4/1/2025 11:16:36 AM'

Use of antifungals in agriculture may increase resistance in an infectious yeast, study suggests

Genomic changes in the infectious yeast Candida tropicalis may play a role in its resistance to antifungals, according to a new study. These genomic changes can be brought on by a common antifungal, TBZ. The study demonstrates that the use of TBZ ...

'4/1/2025 11:16:33 AM'

Metasurfaces: Bilayer device can control many forms of polarized light

Researchers have created a bilayer metasurface made of two stacked layers of titanium dioxide nanostructures, opening new possibilities for structuring light.

'4/1/2025 9:15:45 AM'

Combination immunotherapy shrank a variety of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers

A new form of tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy, a form of personalized cancer immunotherapy, dramatically improved the treatment's effectiveness in patients with metastatic gastrointestinal cancers, according to results of a clinical tr...

'4/1/2025 9:15:32 AM'

Surprising number of environmental pollutants in hedgehogs

Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate the environmental pollutants found in urban envi...

'4/1/2025 9:15:30 AM'

New 3D technology paves way for next-generation eye-tracking

By integrating powerful 3D imaging technology with advanced computation, researchers can capture gaze direction information from tens of thousands of surface points on the eye instead of about a dozen used by conventional eye-tracking methods. The...

'4/1/2025 9:15:27 AM'

Diagnosing a dud may lead to a better battery

A team of chemists found a way to see into battery interfaces -- tight, tricky spots buried deep inside the cell have long frustrated battery designers.

'4/1/2025 9:15:25 AM'

We know nanoplastics are a threat -- this new tool can help us figure out just how bad they are

While the threat that microplastics pose to human and ecological health has been richly documented and is well known, nanoplastics, which are smaller than one micrometer (1/50th the thickness of an average human hair), are far more reactive, far m...

'4/1/2025 9:15:23 AM'

Mpox could become a serious global threat, scientists warn

Mpox has the potential to become a significant global health threat if taken too lightly, according to scientists.

'4/1/2025 9:13:19 AM'

Exposure to air pollution in childhood is associated with reduced brain connectivity

A new study has found that children exposed to higher levels of air pollution in early and mid childhood have weaker connections between key brain regions. The findings highlight the potential impact of early exposure to air pollution on brain dev...

'4/1/2025 9:13:16 AM'

Researchers develop test using machine learning to help predict immunotherapy response in lymphoma patients

A new article outlines a new tool that measures blood inflammation as a marker for poor CAR T therapy outcomes.

'4/1/2025 9:13:09 AM'

Researchers develop new way to match young cancer patients with the right drugs

A team has developed a new way to quickly find personalized treatments for young cancer patients, by growing their tumors in chicken eggs and analyzing their proteins. The team has combined these two techniques to identify and test a drug for a yo...

'4/1/2025 9:13:04 AM'

An efficient self-assembly process for advanced self-healing materials

Self-healing coatings are advanced materials that can repair damage, such as scratches and cracks on their own. Researchers have developed an efficient method for preparing self-healing films consisting of alternating layers of highly cross-linked...

'4/1/2025 9:12:57 AM'

Omega-6 fatty acid promotes the growth of an aggressive type of breast cancer, study finds

Linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid found in seed oils such as soybean and safflower oil, and animal products including pork and eggs, specifically enhances the growth of the hard-to-treat 'triple negative' breast cancer subtype, according to a p...

'4/1/2025 9:10:53 AM'

Awareness grows of cancer risk from alcohol consumption

Public awareness of the link between drinking alcohol and an elevated risk of cancer has grown since last fall, with 55% of U.S. adults saying that regularly consuming alcohol increases your chances of later developing cancer, according to a new s...

'4/1/2025 9:10:27 AM'

A step toward plant-based gelatin

Researchers present gum tragacanth as a plant-based alternative to gelatin for creating edible films. The team developed films containing different concentrations of gelatin and gum tragacanth and monitored their survivability in water and saline ...

'4/1/2025 9:10:25 AM'

The food and fuel that farms itself

Scientists have released new and more accurate genome sequences for five species of duckweed. Their research reveals the specific genes responsible for some of the plant's most useful traits, allowing for new commercial agriculture applications.