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Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Serpent in the sky captured with ESO telescope

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The Sh2-54 nebula in the infrared with VISTA This image of the spectacular Sh2-54 nebula was taken in infrared light using ESO’s VISTA teles...

Common Fatty Acid Contributes to Temperature and Pain Sensitivity in Psoriasis Plaques

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Photo Credit:  Eszter Miller A common fatty acid found in the Western diet breaks down into compounds that contribute to increased temperatu...

Zebrafish testing identifies a gene potentially at the root of domestication

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Zebrafish Photo Credit:  Petr Kuznetsov The research, published in iScience , looked at genetically modified zebrafish that fail to make the...

Was That Explosion Chemical or Nuclear?

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From left to right: Tim Johnson, Hunter Knox, and Harry Miley bring together different perspectives to better detect underground nuclear exp...

Self-powered, printable smart sensors created from emerging semiconductors could mean cheaper, greener Internet of Things

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Simon Fraser University professor Vincenzo Pecunia Photo Credit: Courtesy of Simon Fraser University Creating smart sensors to embed in our ...

Movement throttles insulin production

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The figure shows the relationships between movement and regulation of the insulin-producing cells in the fruit fly. Illustration Credit: San...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Chip Circuit for Light Could Be Applied to Quantum Computations

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Future versions of the new photonic circuits will feature low-loss waveguides—the channels through which the single photons travel--some 3 m...

Researchers Demonstrate New Strain Sensors in Health Monitoring, Machine Interface Tech

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Image Credit: Shuang Wu. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a stretchable strain sensor that has an unprecedented...

Good hydration linked to healthy aging

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NIH findings may provide early clues about increased risks for advanced biological aging and premature death. Photo Credit:  engin akyurt Ad...

Females perform better than males on a ‘theory of mind’ test across 57 countries

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Over the decades, many independent research studies have found that females on average score higher than males on theory of mind tests Photo...

Fewer moths, more flies

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Insects such as the bumblebee hoverfly Volucella bombylans appear much less frequently than before. Photo Credit:  Carolien van Oijen The co...
Monday, January 2, 2023

Self-assembling proteins can store cellular “memories”

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MIT engineers have devised a way to induce cells to inscribe the history of cellular events in a long protein structure that can be imaged u...
Sunday, January 1, 2023

Good and bad feelings for brain stem serotonin

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An illustration of the facial expression changes in mice following stimulation and inhibition of the median raphe nucleus Image Credit: Yu O...

A glimpse of a cell’s sense of touch

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Confocal image of the presomitic mesoderm of a zebrafish embryo. N-cadherin adhesion molecules are shown (they appear black because the imag...

Russian Scientists Learned to Create Analogues of Space Ice

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Astronomers from Ural Federal University have grown ice in a vacuum installation. Photo Credit: Aldebaran S Employees of the Ural Federal Un...