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Scientific Frontline
SFL Educational News Service
Thursday, May 26, 2022
A helping hand for robotic manipulator design
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MIT researchers have created an integrated design pipeline that enables a user with no specialized knowledge to quickly craft a customized 3...
An alarming prevalence of smell, taste loss during COVID’s delta surge
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Kai Zhao The loss of smell and taste with a COVID-19 infection during the delta surge was a prevalent symptom and wasn’t prevented by vaccin...
Sea turtle conservation gets boost from new DNA detection method
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DNA “fingerprints” left behind by sea turtles offer scientists a simple, powerful way of tracking the health and whereabouts of these endang...
Drugs used to treat blood cancer could activate “sleeping” cancer-causing gene
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Hypomethylating agents (HMA) are currently used as a first-line treatment for patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) - a group of diso...
Tsunami threats are greatly underestimated in current models
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USC researchers found that large earthquake-generated tsunamis emerge after horizontal oceanic water movement is transferred to uplift in th...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Newly discovered ancient Amazonian cities reveal how urban landscapes were built without harming nature
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Lidar image of the large settlement site Cotoca with cross sections A–B and C–D. m.a.s.l., meters above sea level. Credit: University of Exe...
Bat Brains Organized for Echolocation and Flight
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Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Neuroscience mapped the brain regions controlling movements in Egyptian fruit bats. Large regions of ...
Secrets of tree hyraxes uncovered with new research techniques
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Tree hyraxes of Taita mountain forests are vociferous nocturnal mammals. Credit: Hanna Rosti Tree hyraxes are medium-sized mammals living in...
Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot
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Northwestern University engineers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, ado...
Common drug offers fertility hope for women with obesity
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Researchers may have found a solution to improving fertility in women with obesity, following a successful trial in mice using diabetes medi...
Stars are heavier than we thought
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The Andromeda galaxy, our Milky Way's closest neighbor, is the most distant object in the sky that you can see with your unaided eye. Cr...
Taking dinosaurs’ temperature with a new biomarker
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Allosaurus bone extracellular matrix: microscopic view of bone soft tissues of one of the dinosaur specimens (Allosaurus) that were investig...
Lunar cycle triggers Hawaiian box jellyfish to spawn on Oʻahu shores
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Lead author Angel Yanagihara with Hawaiian Box Jellyfish. Photo credit: Keoki Stender A key number of hours of darkness during the lunar cyc...
Silk layer improves function of surgical masks
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UC researchers studied the effectiveness of surgical masks in combination with a silk face mask. Biology student Adam Parlin, now with SUNY-...
Does herpes simplex virus change during transmission?
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A new study offers clues as to how herpes simplex virus (HSV) genetic diversity is shared between transmission partners. The authors used vi...
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