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Study Reveals Alarming Teen Distracted Driving Trends

Prevent Injuries While Biking: Expert Tips from Dr. Sanj Kakar

Covid Disruption Spurs Rise in Non-Covid Illnesses

Study Reveals Serum Calcitonin Predicts Lymph Node Metastasis

Forensic Pathologists' Vital Role in Public Health

Child Tax Credit Boost Reduces Child Poverty, Reversal Looms

Medical Community Turns to Bacteriophages for Superbug Fight

Protein Linked to Alzheimer's Aids Lung Cancer Brain Metastasis

Study Reveals High Granzyme Levels in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis

Gender's Influence on Alcohol's Decision-Making Impact

Breakthrough: Mouse Models for Testing Childhood Neurological Disorder

Neuroscientists Struggle with Building Simple Models

Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy for Blood Pressure Monitoring

Antibodies and Soil Microbe Compound Fight Blood Cancer

Researchers Uncover Process Behind Barrett's Esophagus

Male Patients with Hidradenitis Suppurativa Report Improved Physician Communication

Bowel Preparation Costs Impact Colonoscopy Screening

Obesity Linked to Financial Hardship & Food Insecurity

Genetic Link Found Between Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia

Dyslexia Study: Motor Activities Boost Reading Speed

Study Reveals Health Care Disparities for Adults with Disabilities

UCLA Researchers Develop AI System for EHR Transformation

Effects of Overtraining on Human Body: Risks & Symptoms

Theater Intervention Boosts Parkinson's Patients' Well-Being

Researchers at Lund University Track Aneurysm Formation in Mice

Confusion Persists: When to Start Regular Mammograms

Study Reveals Link Between Expressing Love and Well-Being

WHO Declares Second Public Health Emergency for Mpox

New Funding Approach for ALS Clinical Trials Introduced

Secret Revealed: Cheek Wound Healing Discovery

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Cherry Tomato Farms Thrive in Morocco's Chtouka Amid Drought

Gigablue Sells 200,000 Carbon Credits for Climate Tech

Swiss Pine Forest: Testing Treetop Survival in Mist

University of East Anglia Report Raises Global Democracy Concerns

Promising Candidates for Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Green Transition Boosts Productivity in UK Economy, Reveals Climate Policy Study

Revealing Hidden Coral Life Processes with New Microscope

Vanilla Flavoring: Climate Threats to Wild Vanilla Crop

AI's Promise Falters for Marginalized Americans

Astronomers at University of Toronto Use AI to Determine Stellar Ages

Earth's Energy Balance: Satellite Measurements Since the 1960s

Innovative 3D-Printed Food from Drought-Tolerant Sorghum

Scientists Achieve Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Milestone

Know Your Money: Key to Retirement Readiness

Heat Wave Scorches Europe, Extends to Germany

Decline of Global Shellfish Beds: Countering the Trend

"Carbon Credits Impact: Credibility Concerns in Offset Projects"

New Study Reveals Potential Drug Families for Tuberculosis

Astronomers Monitor Object Approaching from Another Star

Study Reveals Group Work Boosts Math Confidence

NASA's Lucy Mission Analyzes Data from Encounter with Asteroid

Fascinating Ways Snakes Move: Undulating, Sidewinding, Crawling

Enzymatic Recycling: Greener Alternative to Plastic Processing

Mining the Moon and Asteroids: Fiction to Reality

Global Review: Half World Endures 30 Extra Hot Days

The Impact of Education on Mental Sharpness

Harvard Researchers Explore Biological Solution for Space Habitats

Study Suggests Early Childhood Education Favors Individual Efforts

Emojis Boost Relationship Satisfaction: Study

Great Barrier Reef Corals: Parental Distance Crucial for Protection

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Topology Optimization Revolutionizing Engineering Structures

Faster topology optimization: An emerging industrial design technique gets a speed boost

West Virginia University Engineers Develop Flexible Energy Grid

Tough fuel cell can stabilize power grid by making and storing energy in extreme industrial conditions

Robots could one day crawl across the moon, and undergrads are laying the groundwork

Future Moon Exploration: Robot Rolling at CU Boulder

Tesla reports lower car sales, extending slump

Tesla Reports Hefty Drop in Auto Sales Amid Electric Vehicle Competition

Impact of AI Integration in Wearable Devices

AI-powered assistive technologies are changing how we experience and imagine public space

Researchers develop first hull-attached sensor system for predicting underwater radiated noise

South Korea Unveils Hull-Attached Sensor System for Underwater Noise Prediction

"Stretchable Foam Sensor Developed for Wide Range Sensing"

Stretchable polymer foam sensor detects wide range of motion with high sensitivity

Centaur: AI that thinks like us—and could help explain how we think

Innovative ternary alloy films pave the way for ultra-low-power memory devices

Helmholtz Munich AI Model Centaur Mimics Human Behavior

Record-High Scandium Levels in (Al,Ga,Sc)N Thin Films

Decoding Implicit Messages in Written Communication

AI might now be as good as humans at detecting emotion, political leaning and sarcasm in online conversations

Study Suggests Diesel Car Exhaust Positioning Cuts UK Air Pollution

Shifting UK car exhausts to the right could dramatically cut roadside air pollution

UCLA Study: Biological Brains and AI Share Neural Patterns

Striking parallels between biological brains and AI during social interaction suggest fundamental principles

Cheaper energy bills: AI-created materials could cool cities and spacecraft

New Materials Developed with Machine Learning for Energy Efficiency

Accountants Utilize AI to Boost Efficiency

How AI is improving accounting efficiency—without replacing jobs

Distrust in AI is on the rise—but along with healthy skepticism comes the risk of harm

Video Game Cover Art Criticized for AI Generation

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Friday, 4 October 2019

New evolution-busting drug overcomes resistance in aggressive breast cancers

A new type of drug that blocks one of cancer's key evolutionary escape routes from chemotherapy could be used to treat aggressive breast cancers, a new study has shown.

Alabama medical center says hack exposed patient records

An Alabama medical center says the protected health information of more than 19,000 patients has been exposed through a computer hacking attack.

NASA sets 1st all-female spacewalk after spring suit flap

The first all-female spacewalk is back on, six months after a flap over spacesuits led to an embarrassing cancellation.

Yellow cedar trees denied for US threatened species listing

A federal agency has rejected an iconic Alaska tree for listing as a threatened species due to climate warming.

Study pinpoints Alzheimer's plaque emergence early and deep in the brain

Long before symptoms like memory loss even emerge, the underlying pathology of Alzheimer's disease, such as an accumulation of amyloid protein plaques, is well underway in the brain. A longtime goal of the field has been to understand where it starts so that future interventions could begin there. A new study by MIT neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory could help those efforts by pinpointing the regions with the earliest emergence of amyloid in the brain of a prominent mouse model of the disease. Notably, the study also shows that the degree of amyloid accumulation in one of those same regions of the human brain correlates strongly with the progression of the disease.

Scientists ID new targets to treat fibrosis—a feature of many chronic diseases

When it comes to repairing injured tissue, specialized cells in the body known as fibroblasts are called into action. Fibroblasts give rise to healing cells called myofibroblasts, which generally is good in the short term—but bad when myofibroblast activation gets out of hand. In new work, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) researchers show how fibroblast activation and myofibroblast formation occurs, providing clues as to how to target fibrosis—which impacts several chronic diseases. Kickstarting the process are stress-induced changes in mitochondrial calcium uptake.

Scientists create brain-mimicking environment to grow 3-D tissue models of brain tumors

A team of Tufts University-led researchers has developed three-dimensional (3-D) human tissue culture models of pediatric and adult brain cancers in a brain-mimicking microenvironment, a significant advancement for the study of brain tumor biology and pharmacological response. The study was published today in Nature Communications.

Were hot, humid summers the key to life's origins?

Uncovering how the first biological molecules (like proteins and DNA) arose is a major goal for researchers attempting to solve the origin of life. Today, chemists at Saint Louis University, in collaboration with scientists at the College of Charleston and the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, published a study in the journal Nature Communications that suggests deliquescent minerals—which dissolve in water they absorb from humid air—can assist the construction of proteins from simpler building blocks during cycles timed to mimic day and night on the early Earth.

Extinction Rebellion plans fortnight of worldwide climate action

Extinction Rebellion climate protesters are planning to bring disruption to 60 cities around the world from Monday in a fortnight of civil disobedience, warning of an environmental "apocalypse".

In northwest Spain, conservation efforts pay off as bears thrive

Daylight is only just breaking over Spain's Cantabrian Mountains and already a dozen enthusiasts are up and about in the hope of spotting a brown bear.

Scientists fight to save unique Guiana coral reef

Off the coast of Guiana, a French overseas department perched on the north coast of South America, scientists scour the choppy waters for signs of life.

Vietnamese roll out Transformers-inspired robot with green message

There is more than meets the eye to the towering robot resembling a character from the "Transformers" movie franchise—it speaks Vietnamese and is made from spare motorbike parts.

Netflix cooperating with Italy tax evasion probe

Netflix on Thursday said it was cooperating with a probe into whether it evaded taxes in Italy, even though it has no office or employees in that country.

'Incredibly rare' monkey born at Australian zoo

One of the world's rarest monkeys has been born at an Australian zoo.

Black year for European beekeepers

This year has been a black one for many European beekeepers, particularly in France and Italy, where unpredictable weather has produced what are being termed the worst honey harvests ever.

Officials push Facebook for way to peek at encrypted messages

Officials are calling on Facebook not to use encryption in its messaging services that does not provide authorities a way to see what is being sent.

Paralysed man walks again with brain-controlled exoskeleton

A French man paralysed in a night club accident can walk again thanks to a brain-controlled exoskeleton in what scientists said Wednesday was a breakthrough providing hope to tetraplegics seeking to regain movement.

Vaping-linked lung injury kills 18, sickens 1,080 in US outbreak

Eighteen people have died from illnesses associated with e-cigarette use since March, US health authorities said Thursday, while more than a thousand others have suffered probable lung injuries linked to vaping.

Climate change pushes Italy beekeepers to the brink

Unusual weather driven by climate change is wreaking havoc on bee populations, including in northern Italy where the pollinating insects crucial to food production are struggling to survive.

Identifying a gene for canine night blindness

Creating an effective gene therapy for inherited diseases requires three key steps. First, scientists must identify and characterize the disease. Second, they must find the gene responsible. And finally, they must find a way to correct the impairment.

Dealing a therapeutic counterblow to traumatic brain injury

A blow to the head or powerful shock wave on the battlefield can cause immediate, significant damage to a person's skull and the tissue beneath it. But the trauma does not stop there. The impact sets off a chemical reaction in the brain that ravages neurons and the networks that supply them with nutrients and oxygen.

How effective is body cooling in patients that experience cardiac arrest?

While body temperature cooling is not a new treatment tactic for patients who experience cardiac arrest, a new clinical trial hopes to better understand the optimal amount of time for targeted temperature management.

How much are you polluting your office air just by existing?

Just by breathing or wearing deodorant, you have more influence over your office space than you might think, a growing body of evidence shows. But could these basic acts of existence also be polluting the air in the office room where you work?

Pioneering study suggests that an exoskeleton for tetraplegia could be feasible

A four-limb robotic system controlled by brain signals helped a tetraplegic man to move his arms and walk using a ceiling-mounted harness for balance. While the early results are promising, the authors note that the system is a long way from clinical application and will require improvements before it becomes widely available.

Placenta pathology may clarify racial disparities in preemie health outcomes

African-American infants are twice as likely to die in the first year of life than white infants, for reasons that are complex and not well understood. Results from a recent study suggest that specific abnormalities in the placenta from African-American preterm births may hold clues to the physical mechanisms behind racial disparities in preemie health outcomes.

Some ICU admissions may be preventable, saving money and improving care

Many admissions to the intensive care unit may be preventable, potentially decreasing health care costs and improving care, according to new research published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Long-term mental health benefits of gender-affirming surgery for transgender individuals

For transgender individuals, gender-affirming surgery can lead to long-term mental health benefits, according to new research published online today in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The study found that among transgender individuals with gender incongruence, undergoing gender-affirming surgery was significantly associated with a decrease in mental health treatment over time.