. Scientific Frontline
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Aging, Frailty, and our Microbiomes

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Photo Credit:  Magda Ehlers We humans tend to think we live independently, capable of ensuring our own health and wellbeing. As researchers ...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Why late-night eating leads to weight gain, diabetes

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The science behind the study is underpinned by research done at Northwestern more than 20 years ago that found a relationship between the in...

A laser that could ‘reshape the landscape of integrated photonics’

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A team of researchers led by Qiang Lin, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rochester, has developed the first multi-color...

New cervical cancer screening test can predict cell changes well in advance

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The new test is part of a research program aimed at predicting the risk of developing four types of cancer from a single cell sample from th...

Disease Outbreaks Influence the Color of Wolves Across North America

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 Members of the Druid Peak Pack in Yellowstone National Park engage in a game of chase. The gray colored wolf on the left represents the hom...

Ural Scientists Created Nanoparticle Growth Technology

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The new material is suitable for solar cells, biosensors, and other systems working on quantum principles. Photo credit: Vladimir Petrov Phy...

Study Finds No Benefit to Taking Fluvoxamine for COVID-19 Symptoms

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A study led by the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) in partnership with Vanderbilt University found no symptomatic or clinical benefi...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

How a Small Protein Plays a Large Role in Mitochondrial Function

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Rebecca Voorhees Credit: Caltech Caltech researchers have discovered an unexpected role for a protein in human cells, solving a longstanding...

Wildfires drive L.A.’s mountain lions to take deadly risks

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  A National Park Service researcher displays the scorched paws of the adult male mountain lion known as P-64. While an NPS tracking collar ...

A 10,000-Year-Old Infant Burial Provides Insights Into the Use of Baby Carriers and Family Heirlooms in Prehistory

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 Team of researchers including Claudine Gravel-Miguel from Arizona State University, Jamie Hodgkins from the University of Colorado Denver w...

Reprogrammable materials selectively self-assemble

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With just a random disturbance that energizes the cubes, they selectively self-assemble into a larger block.  Credit: MIT CSAIL While automa...

Genes that influence dyslexia

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A large-scale gene study identifies series of DNA variants linked to dyslexia An international team of scientists, including researchers at ...

Alligators Exposed to PFAS Show Autoimmune Effects

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Photo Credit: Jack Kelly A recent study of alligators in the Cape Fear River found the animals had elevated levels of 14 different per- and ...

A pandemic ‘baby bump’ is happening in the U.S.

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The birth rate increase in 2021 was driven largely by women having their first births and women with a college education who may have been m...

Our brains use quantum computation

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Scientists from Trinity believe our brains could use quantum computation after adapting an idea developed to prove the existence of quantum ...