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Jan. 21, 2021 — Scientists have just shown that the influence of Saturn's satellites can explain the tilt of the rotation axis of the gas giant. Their work also predicts that the tilt will ...
Jan. 21, 2021 — The fluttery flight of butterflies has so far been somewhat of a mystery to researchers, given their unusually large and broad wings relative to their body size. Now ...
Jan. 21, 2021 — Scientists show evidence that nitrogen acquired during Earth's formation came from both the inner and outer regions of the protoplanetary disk. The study has implications for ...
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New Variety of Paintbrush Lily Developed by a Novel Plant Tissue Culture Technique
Jan. 22, 2021 — Scientists have developed simultaneous triploid and hexaploid varieties of Haemanthus albiflos by the application of endosperm culture, thus ...
Magnetic Waves Explain Mystery of Sun's Outer Layer
Jan. 22, 2021 — Researchers combined observations from a telescope in New Mexico, the United States, with satellites located near Earth to identify a link between magnetic waves in the chromosphere and areas of ...
A Large Number of Gray Whales Are Starving and Dying in the Eastern North Pacific
Jan. 22, 2021 — It is now the third year that gray whales have been found in very poor condition or dead in large numbers along the west coast of Mexico, USA and ...
Forecasting Coastal Water Quality
Jan. 22, 2021 — Using water samples and environmental data gathered over 48 hours or less, engineers have developed a new predictive technique for forecasting coastal water quality, a critical step in protecting ...
MRI Helps Unravel the Mysteries of Sleep
Jan. 22, 2021 — Scientists are investigating brain activity during sleep with the help of MRI scans. It turns out our brains are much more active than we ...
Research Suggests Development of Antiviral Therapies to Treat Multiple Sclerosis
Jan. 15, 2021 — Scientists have uncovered new clues implicating a type of herpes virus as the cause of a central nervous system disease in monkeys that's similar to ...
Record-Breaking Laser Link Could Help Us Test Whether Einstein Was Right
Jan. 22, 2021 — Scientists have set a world record for the most stable transmission of a laser signal through the atmosphere. The team combined 'phase stabilization' technology with advanced self-guiding optical ...
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Gastrointestinal Surgery Can Be a 'Cure' for Type 2 Diabetes Finds New Long-Term Study
Jan. 21, 2021 — The results of a randomized clinical trial with the longest follow up to date show that metabolic surgery is more effective than medications and ...
Better Post-Surgery Care Would Dramatically Improve Cancer Survival
Jan. 21, 2021 — Patients' chances of survival after cancer surgery is strongly linked with the standard of post-operation hospital care, a major international study ...
Friends Are Most Valued in Cultures Where They May Be Needed Most
Jan. 21, 2021 — Researchers reveal cultural and health benefits of close human relationships in a new ...
Crystal Structures in Super Slow Motion
Jan. 22, 2021 — Laser beams are used to change the properties of materials in an extremely precise way. However, the underlying processes generally take place at such unimaginably fast speeds and at such a small ...
NSAIDs Might Exacerbate or Suppress COVID-19 Depending on Timing, Mouse Study Suggests
Jan. 22, 2021 — New research shows that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) reduced both antibody and inflammatory responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in ...
Do Promotions Make Consumers More Generous?
Jan. 22, 2021 — Price promotions can have a positive effect on consumers' donation behavior because the monetary savings from price promotions increase consumers' perceived ...
Combined River Flows Could Send Up to 3 Billion Microplastics a Day Into the Bay of Bengal
Jan. 22, 2021 — New research shows the Ganges River - with the combined flows of the Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers - could be responsible for up to 3 billion microplastic particles entering the Bay of Bengal every ...
Cargo Delivery by Polymers
Jan. 22, 2021 — Degradable, bio-based polymers offer options for chemical recycling, and they can be a tool to store and release useful molecules. Scientists have developed a class of sugar-based polymers that are ...
Rhesus Macaques Develop Promising Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2
Jan. 22, 2021 — In a promising result for the success of vaccines against COVID-19, rhesus macaque monkeys infected with the human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 developed protective immune responses that might be ...
COVID Lockdown Loneliness Linked to More Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults
Jan. 22, 2021 — Loneliness in adults aged 50 and over during the COVID-19 lockdown was linked to worsening depressive and other mental health symptoms, according to a large-scale online ...
Jan. 22, 2021 — Astronomers have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its observable ...
PTSD Link to Pandemic Fears
Jan. 22, 2021 — A new study of 1040 online participants from five western countries explores people's response to the stresses of the escalating pandemic, finding more than 13 percent of the sample had ...
Defects May Help Scientists Understand the Exotic Physics of Topology
Jan. 22, 2021 — Real-world materials are usually messier than the idealized scenarios found in textbooks. Imperfections can add complications and even limit a material's usefulness. To get around this, ...
Scientists Solve a 100-Year-Old Mystery About Cancer
Jan. 21, 2021 — A long-standing mystery is why fast-growing cells, like cancer cells and immune cells, rely on a seemingly inefficient form of metabolizing glucose to power their activities. In a new study, ...
Developmental Origins of Eczema and Psoriasis Discovered
Jan. 21, 2021 — Scientists have created a highly detailed map of skin, which reveals that cellular processes from development are re-activated in cells from patients with eczema and psoriasis inflammatory skin ...
Bringing Atoms to a Standstill: Miniaturizing Laser Cooling
Jan. 21, 2021 — Scientists have miniaturized the optical components required to cool atoms down to a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero, the first step in employing them on microchips to drive a new ...
Giant Sand Worm Discovery Proves Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Jan. 21, 2021 — Researchers have found evidence that large ambush-predatory worms -- some as long as two meters -- roamed the ocean floor near Taiwan over 20 million years ...
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New Insights Into the Link Between Sunlight Exposure and Kidney Damage
Jan. 21, 2021 — A new collaborative study reveals unexpected insights into how skin exposure to ultraviolet light can worsen clinical symptoms in autoimmune diseases such as ...
Creating a Safe CAR T-Cell Therapy to Fight Solid Tumors in Children
Jan. 21, 2021 — Scientists modify CAR T-Cell therapy, making it more effective and less toxic, for possible use in solid tumors such as ...
Abnormal Hyperactivation in the Brain May Be an Early Sign of Alzheimer's
Jan. 21, 2021 — A psychology and neuroscience professor has just targeted an early biomarker of the ...
Mitochondrial Mutation Increases the Risk of Diabetes in Japanese Men
Jan. 21, 2021 — A new study of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Japanese populations has uncovered a previously uncharacterized genetic variant that puts male carriers at greater risk for the disease, as well as the ...
Solar System Formation in Two Steps
Jan. 21, 2021 — Researchers have discovered that a two-step formation process of the early Solar System can explain the chronology and split in volatile and isotope content of the inner and outer Solar ...
Squeezing a Rock-Star Material Could Make It Stable Enough for Solar Cells
Jan. 21, 2021 — A promising lead halide perovskite is great at converting sunlight to electricity, but it breaks down at room temperature. Now scientists have discovered how to stabilize it with pressure from a ...
- Crystal Structures in Super Slow Motion
- NSAIDs Might Exacerbate or Suppress COVID-19 Depending on Timing, Mouse Study Suggests
- Do Promotions Make Consumers More Generous?
- Combined River Flows Could Send Up to 3 Billion Microplastics a Day Into the Bay of Bengal
- Cargo Delivery by Polymers
- Rhesus Macaques Develop Promising Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2
- COVID Lockdown Loneliness Linked to More Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults
- Astronomers Discover First Cloudless, Jupiter-Like Planet
- PTSD Link to Pandemic Fears
- Defects May Help Scientists Understand the Exotic Physics of Topology
Thursday, January 21, 2021
- Scientists Solve a 100-Year-Old Mystery About Cancer
- Developmental Origins of Eczema and Psoriasis Discovered
- Bringing Atoms to a Standstill: Miniaturizing Laser Cooling
- Giant Sand Worm Discovery Proves Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
- New Insights Into the Link Between Sunlight Exposure and Kidney Damage
- Creating a Safe CAR T-Cell Therapy to Fight Solid Tumors in Children
- Abnormal Hyperactivation in the Brain May Be an Early Sign of Alzheimer's
- Mitochondrial Mutation Increases the Risk of Diabetes in Japanese Men
- Solar System Formation in Two Steps
- Squeezing a Rock-Star Material Could Make It Stable Enough for Solar Cells
- Designing Customized 'brains' For Robots
- Spitting Cobra Venom Reveals How Evolution Often Finds the Same Answer to a Common Problem
- A Closer Look at T Cells Reveals Big Differences in Mild Vs. Severe COVID-19 Cases
- Combining Best of Both Worlds for Cancer Modeling
- Study Finds Genetic Clues to Pneumonia Risk and COVID-19 Disparities
- When a Story Is Breaking, AI Can Help Consumers Identify Fake News
- Why Older Adults Must Go to the Front of the Vaccine Line
- How to Get More Electric Cars on the Road
- Researchers Prove Fish-Friendly Detection Method More Sensitive Than Electrofishing
- 'Aging Well' Greatly Affected by Hopes and Fears for Later Life
- COVID-19 Infection in Immunodeficient Patient Cured by Infusing Convalescent Plasma, Doctors Report
- New Graphene Nanochannel Water Filters
- Vegan Diet Significantly Remodels Metabolism in Young Children
- Detailed Tumour Profiling
- Survey: Frequent Reports of Missed Medical Care in US Adults During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic
- New, Simplified Genetic Test Effectively Screens for Hereditary Cancers
- Randomized Trials Could Help to Return Children Safely to Schools, Study Finds
- When It Comes to Eyewitness Accounts of Earthquake Shaking, Representation Matters
- Study Defines Small-Cell Lung Cancer Subtypes and Distinct Therapeutic Vulnerabilities for Each Type
- Scientists Make Pivotal Discovery on Mechanism of Epstein-Barr Virus Latent Infection
- Vaccine Produces Long-Lasting Anti-Tumor Response in Patients With Melanoma
- Study Compares Low-Fat, Plant-Based Diet to Low-Carb, Animal-Based Diet
- Fish Sex Organs Boosted Under High-CO2
- Atomic Resolution Video of Salt Crystals Forming in Real Time
- Immunology: Functionality of Immune Cells in Early Life
- Chemists Harness Synergy Effect of Gallium
- Natural Hazard Events and National Risk Reduction Measures Unconnected
- Antarctica: The Ocean Cools at the Surface but Warms Up at Depth
- Memory Fail Controlled by Dopamine Circuit
- Feral Colonies Provide Clues for Enhancing Honey Bee Tolerance to Pathogens
- COVID-19 Is Dangerous for Middle-Aged Adults, Not Just the Elderly
- Does Aspirin Lower Colorectal Cancer Risk in Older Adults? It Depends on When They Start
- Producing Green Hydrogen Through the Exposure of Nanomaterials to Sunlight
- Electrons Caught in the Act
- How the Brain Learns That Earmuffs Are Not Valuable at the Beach
- Alpha Particles Lurk at the Surface of Neutron-Rich Nuclei
- Scientists Discover How the Potentially Oldest Coral Reefs in the Mediterranean Developed
- Tough Childhood Damages Life Prospects
- Size of Connections Between Nerve Cells Determines Their Signaling Strength
- Diamonds Need Voltage
- A Display That Completely Blocks Off Counterfeits
- Burial Practices Point to an Interconnected Early Medieval Europe
- Estrogen Receptors in Mom's Placenta Critical During Viral Infection
- Electron Transfer Discovery Is a Step Toward Viable Grid-Scale Batteries
- Climate Change Puts Hundreds of Coastal Airports at Risk of Flooding
- Study Suggests That Gut Fungi Are Not Associated With Parkinson's Disease
- Turbulence Model Could Help Design Aircraft Capable of Handling Extreme Scenarios
- Strange Colon Discovery Explains Racial Disparities in Colorectal Cancer
- Pioneering New Technique Could Revolutionize Super-Resolution Imaging Systems
- Seeds Transfer Their Microbes to the Next Generation
- Modified Pain Management Strategy Reduces Opioid Exposure to Trauma Patients
- 'Attitude of Gratitude' Keeps Older People in Japan Feeling Hopeful as They Age
- Search for Axions from Nearby Star Betelgeuse Comes Up Empty
- Could Lab-Grown Plant Tissue Ease the Environmental Toll of Logging and Agriculture?
- Gold Nanoparticles More Stable by Putting Rings on Them
- How Cells 'eat' Their Own Fluid Components
- New Eco-Friendly Way to Make Ammonia Could Be Boon for Agriculture, Hydrogen Economy
- Patients in Cancer Remission at High Risk for Severe COVID-19 Illness
- Antibiotic Resistance May Spread Even More Easily Than Expected
- Common Pesticides Stop Bees and Flies from Getting a Good Night's Sleep
- People More Likely to Follow COVID Rules When Friends and Family Do, Research Finds
- New Method to Assist Fast-Tracking of Vaccines for Pre-Clinical Tests
- Irish Soil Can Offer More Hope in Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, Researchers Show
- Scientists Discover Link Between Nicotine and Breast Cancer Metastasis
- Mathematical Framework Enables Accurate Characterization of Shapes
- Early Humans Used Chopping Tools to Break Animal Bones and Consume the Bone Marrow
- Using VR Training to Boost Our Sense of Agency and Improve Motor Control
- Cartilage Matrix as Natural Biomaterial for Cartilage Regeneration
- Hope for a Vaccination Against Staphylococcus Areus Infections?
- Balancing Brain Cell Activity
- On the Trail of Active Ingredients from Marine Yeasts
- Age Provides a Buffer to Pandemic's Mental Health Impact, Researchers Say
- Researchers ID Potential Target for Anti-Viral Drugs to Battle COVID
- 'Smiling Eyes' May Not Signify True Happiness After All
- European Eels One Gene Pool Fits All
- Spontaneous Cell Fusions Amplify Genetic Diversity Within Tumors
- Researchers Improve Data Readout by Using 'quantum Entanglement'
- Reviving Exhausted Immune Cells to Fight Cancer
- Beetles Reveal How to Hide the Body
- What Happens to Your Body During Tailgating
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