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2021 BMC Ecology and Evolution Image Competition: See the Spectacular Winning Photographs
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2021 BMC Ecology and Evolution Image Competition: See the Spectacular Winning Photographs

Overall Winner and Best Image for ‘Conservation Biology.’ A school of jack fish in a spiral formation at Heron Island in the Great Barrier Reef. A visual metaphor for the…

12 September 2021 · 5 min read

New Theory Proposed To Explain the Transparency of Metallic Oxides
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New Theory Proposed To Explain the Transparency of Metallic Oxides

A collection of strontium and vanadium oxide (SrVO3) metallic films of increasing thickness. Credit: ICMAB-CSIC The electrons of some metal oxides, due to their large effective mass when coupled with…

12 September 2021 · 5 min read

Public Health Experts: Global Eradication of COVID-19 Is Probably Feasible
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Public Health Experts: Global Eradication of COVID-19 Is Probably Feasible

Global eradication of COVID-19 probably feasible, and more so than for polio, say public health experts. Main challenges lie in securing high vaccine uptake and response to emergence of variants.…

12 September 2021 · 4 min read

Astronomers Spot Unusual, Enormous Rings Around a Black Hole
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Astronomers Spot Unusual, Enormous Rings Around a Black Hole

V404 Cygni Rings (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Wisc-Madison/S. Heinz et al.; Optical/IR: Pan-STARRS) Astronomers spotted an unusual set of rings in X-rays around a black hole with a companion star. These rings…

12 September 2021 · 6 min read

Enhancing Drug Delivery With Ultrasound – Boosts Treatment of Gastrointestinal Tract Disorders
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Enhancing Drug Delivery With Ultrasound – Boosts Treatment of Gastrointestinal Tract Disorders

Suono Bio, co-founded by MIT alumnus Carl Schoellhammer and two MIT professors, uses ultrasound waves to deliver drugs to the gastrointestinal tract, leveraging research made in MIT labs over more…

12 September 2021 · 7 min read

New Research Finds Children With Autism Have a Distinctive Gut Microbiome
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New Research Finds Children With Autism Have a Distinctive Gut Microbiome

Significantly fewer gut bugs linked to neurotransmitter activity. Children with autism seem to have a distinctive and underdeveloped range and volume of gut bacteria (microbiome) that isn’t related to their…

12 September 2021 · 4 min read

Spectacular Ice Age Landscapes Beneath the North Sea Revealed by 3D Seismic “MRI” Scans
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Spectacular Ice Age Landscapes Beneath the North Sea Revealed by 3D Seismic “MRI” Scans

Close up image of an esker (a sedimentary cast of a meltwater channel formed beneath an ice sheet), discovered within a tunnel valley using the new 3D seismic reflection data.…

11 September 2021 · 4 min read

Increasing the Efficiency of Chemical Reactions To Help Decarbonize Fuels and Chemicals
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Increasing the Efficiency of Chemical Reactions To Help Decarbonize Fuels and Chemicals

This diagram illustrates the new process for enhancing reaction rates in an electrocatalytic process. The catalyst layer, made of gold or platinum, is shown as gray spheres at the bottom,…

10 September 2021 · 6 min read

Investigation Into the Origin of Elements in the Universe Yields New Insights
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Investigation Into the Origin of Elements in the Universe Yields New Insights

A key reaction in the slow neutron-capture process that forms elements occurs less frequently than previously thought. The Science The slow neutron-capture process (the s-process) is one of the nucleosynthesis…

3 September 2021 · 3 min read