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Scientific Frontline
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Monday, June 27, 2022
Study hopes to understand the impact of exposure to COVID-19 infection early in life on a child’s brain development
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More than 650,000 babies are born every year [i] in the UK, and during the pandemic some of them will have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the c...
Chemically modified plant substances work against the hepatitis E virus
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Chemically modified rocaglamides prevent certain viruses from multiplying. Credit: Department of Molecular and Medical Virology Rocaglamides...
Ancient microbes may help us find extraterrestrial life forms
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Rendering of the process by which ancient microbes captured light with rhodopsin proteins. Credit: Sohail Wasif/UCR Using light-capturing pr...
Friday, June 24, 2022
Environmental Factors Predict Risk of Death
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Photo by Amir Hosseini on Unsplash Along with high blood pressure, diabetes, and smoking, environmental factors such as air pollution are hi...
Small molecules transport iron in mice, and human cells to treat some forms of anemia
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University of Illinois chemistry professor Martin D. Burke and graduate student Stella Ekaputri were part of a team that found a small molec...
The laboratory comet
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The aim of several scientists is to trace the changes of a comet during its journey through the solar system by reproducing the thermal and ...
Proactive approaches needed to enable ecosystems to adapt to climate change
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Human activities and infrastructure, such as cities and roads, may reduce future options for species as they need to move to keep pace with ...
Developmental dyslexia essential to human adaptive success, study argues
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Photo by Allan Mas Cambridge researchers studying cognition, behavior and the brain have concluded that people with dyslexia are specialized...
New study solves long-standing mystery of what may have triggered ice age
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At the beginning of the last ice, local mountain glaciers grew and formed large ice sheets, like the one seen here in Greenland, that covere...
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Boron nitride nanotube fibers get real
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A tangle of unprocessed boron nitride nanotubes seen through a scanning electron microscope. Rice University scientists introduced a method ...
Climate change could lead to a dramatic temperature-linked decrease in essential omega-3 fatty acids
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MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Henry Holm pumping seawater for lipid samples from beneath sea ice on the Western Antarctic Peninsula, 2018. ...
Robots play with play dough
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The inner child in many of us feels an overwhelming sense of joy when stumbling across a pile of the fluorescent, rubbery mixture of water, ...
Giant Bacteria Found in Guadeloupe Mangroves Challenge Traditional Concepts
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Artistic rendering of Ca. Thiomargarita magnifica with dime. Credit: Mangrove photo by Pierre Yves Pascal; Illustration by Susan Brand/Berke...
Artificial photosynthesis can produce food without sunshine
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Plants are growing in complete darkness in an acetate medium that replaces biological photosynthesis. Credit: Marcus Harland-Dunaway/UCR Ful...
Researchers reveal new molecular mechanism for Parkinson’s disease risk
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In about a fifth of the cases of Parkinson’s disease, look to a small, malfunctioning protein in the lysosome as a risk factor, say Universi...
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