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Sunday, February 6, 2022

Widely-used hormone drug associated with increased risk of benign brain tumor at high doses

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A generic image of a CT scan showing a meningioma, brain tumor. High doses of a widely-used drug used in the hormonal treatment of condition...

Researchers capture first snapshot of dissolved chemicals from coral reefs

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Reefscapes of the Moorea backreef. Photo credit: Shayle Matsuda/ UH SOEST Coral reefs are hotspots of biodiversity and are amazingly product...

Gone forever – two-thirds of Australia has lost its unique birdlife

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Vulnerable Goshawk. Credit: James Watson Researchers have revealed that threatened birds have disappeared from almost 70 per cent of Austral...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Mission to find lunar ice

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Artistic concept of CoRaLS mission. Photo credit: A. Romero-Wolf, JPL A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa project to detect ice deposits below ...

Global elimination of meat production could save the planet

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Photo by Kat Smith from Pexels A new study of the climate impacts of raising animals for food concludes that phasing out all animal agricult...

Novel Nanoparticle SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Combines Immune Focusing and Self-assembling Nanoparticles to Elicit More Potent Protection

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Dr. Dan Kulp, associate professor in Wistar's Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center Credit: The Wistar Institute The first generation of CO...

How Omicron escapes from antibodies

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Image: CDC; Christine Daniloff, MIT A new study from MIT suggests that the dozens of mutations in the spike protein of the Omicron variant h...

World-record lightning “megaflashes” detected using space-based technology

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Satellite image of the record lightning flash over Uruguay and Argentina on June 18, 2020, which lasted 17.102 seconds. A researcher at Los ...

Scientists discover link between high blood pressure and diabetes

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The long-standing enigma of why so many patients suffering with high blood pressure (known as hypertension) also have diabetes (high blood s...

Hepatitis E virus defies alcoholic hand disinfectants

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The hepatitis E virus (HEV) can cause serious inflammation of the liver and is the most common cause of acute virus-mediated hepatitis world...