. Scientific Frontline
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Videos with Cold Symptoms Activate Brain Regions and Trigger Immune Response

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 Study on Brain Activity and Antibody Concentration Photo Credit:  Andrea Piacquadio People who watch videos of sneezing or sick people show...
Monday, February 3, 2025

Effects of Declining Diversity Documented in the World of Microbes

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Phytoplankton, seen here inside a flask in the Jackrel Lab, are proving to be a valuable system for studying host-associated microbiomes Pho...

AI unveils: Meteoroid impacts cause Mars to shake

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High-resolution CaSSIS image of one of the newly discovered impact craters in Cerberus Fossae. The so-called "blast zone", i.e. th...

Plant Power: A New Method to Model How Plants Move Water Globally

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Golden hour looking out on the UConn Forest. Photo Credit: Sean Flynn/UConn Photo Scientific Frontline: "At a Glance" Summary : A ...

Tiny copper ‘flowers’ bloom on artificial leaves for clean fuel production

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Solar fuel generator  Image Credit: Virgil Andrei Tiny copper ‘nano-flowers’ have been attached to an artificial leaf to produce clean fuels...

Improved treatment timing reduces honey bee losses to Varroa mites

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Varroa destructor mite. Photo Credit: Fera Science Honey bee mortality can be significantly reduced by ensuring that treatments for the para...

Temperature, rainfall and tides speed glacier flow on a daily basis

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The calving front of the Bowdoin Glacier/Kangerluarsuup Sermia. Photo Credit: Shin Sugiyama Even though ‘glacial’ is commonly used to descri...

DNA study targets drug making

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Image Credit: Courtesy of Flinders University DNA profiling technologies are rapidly advancing, creating the potential to identify individua...

Self-Assembling Cerebral Blood Vessels: A Breakthrough in Alzheimer’s Treatment

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Image Credit: Courtesy of Pohang University of Science and Technology A 3D model accurately mimicking the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) in a lab...

The metal that does not expand

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Metal usually expands when heated Photo Credit: Courtesy of Technische Universität Wien Breakthrough in materials research: an alloy of seve...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

New light-tuned chemical tools control processes in living cells

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Jun Zhang, Laura Herzog and Yaowen Wu have found a way to control proteins in living cells. Photo Credit: Shuang Li A research group at Umeå...

Mount Rainier White-Tailed Ptarmigan Finally Receives a ‘Threatened’ Species Designation

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An adult Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan in brown summer plumage. Its feathers change seasonally—white in the winter, white and brown i...

Life cycles of some insects adapt well to a changing climate. Others, not so much.

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A grasshopper, Melanoplus boulderensis, typical of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Photo Credit: ©Thomas Naef, 2022 As insect populations decr...

Better digital memories with the help of noble gases

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Adding the noble gas xenon when manufacturing digital memories enables a more even material coating even in small cavities. Photo Credit: Ol...

Carbon capture from constructed wetlands declines as they age

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Protecting wetland ecosystems is essential as they provide critical environmental benefits to our planet. Photo Credit:  Herbert Aust Constr...