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Global Study Finds Vast Under-Treatment of Diabetes

Only 1 in 10 people with diabetes in low- and middle-income countries is getting evidence-based, low-cost comprehensive care. Nearly half a billion people on the planet have diabetes, but most of them aren’t getting the...

Boosting Energy Production at US Wind Plants With Wake Steering

U.S. wind plants achieve a predicted annual production gain of 0.8% by using wake steering. Wake steering is a strategy employed at wind power plants involving misaligning upstream turbines with the wind direction to deflect...

New and Effective Treatment Discovered for Vitamin D Deficiency

Will aid patients with fat malabsorption issues including gastric bypass surgery, obese adults. There are several million people worldwide with various fat malabsorption syndromes including those who have undergone gastric bypass surgery and those with...

Invasive Alien Species Cost Africa’s Agricultural Sector a Staggering $3.6 Trillion a Year

Fall armyworm costs USD$9.4 bn a year in yield losses to African agriculture. Credit: CABI CABI scientists have conducted the first comprehensive study on the economic impact of a range of Invasive Alien Species (IAS)...

Almost 1 Million Extra Deaths Related to COVID-19 Pandemic in 29 High Income Countries in 2020

Including 94,400 more deaths than expected in the UK alone. Almost 1 million extra deaths relating to the covid-19 pandemic occurred in 29 high income countries in 2020, finds a study published by The BMJ today. Except for...

AI Uses Timing and Weather Data to Accurately Predict Cardiac Arrest Risk

Machine learning model combines timing and weather data. A branch of artificial intelligence (AI), called machine learning, can accurately predict the risk of an out of hospital cardiac arrest — when the heart suddenly stops...

Harvesting Light Like Nature Does: Synthesizing a New Class of Bio-Inspired, Light-Capturing Nanomaterials

POSS-peptoid molecules self-assemble into rhomboid-shaped nanocrystals. Credit: Illustration by Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Inspired by nature, researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), along with collaborators from Washington State University, created a...

Temperature-Dependent Sex Reversals in Bearded Dragon Embryos

Native to the arid landscapes of Australia, the central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) is a fascinating species. It has genetic sex determination, but when incubated at high temperatures, genetic males sex reverse and develop...

Warp Drives and Negative Energy: Physicists Give Chances of Faster-Than-Light Space Travel a Boost

Faster than light travel is the only way humans could ever get to other stars in a reasonable amount of time. Credit: NASA The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri. It is about 4.25...

Ancient Zircons Date Onset of Plate Tectonics to 3.6 Billion Years Ago – Event Crucial to Making Earth Hospitable to Life

Zircons studied by the research team, photographed using cathodoluminescence, a technique that allowed the team to visualize the interiors of the crystals using a specialized scanning electron microscope. Dark circles on the zircons are...

Exploring Earth From Space: Qeshm Island, Iran [Video]

Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Qeshm Island – the largest island in Iran. Qeshm Island lies in the Strait of...

Surprise Twist Suggests Stars Grow Competitively – Unprecedented High-Resolution Map of the Orion Nebula Cluster

Unprecedented high-resolution map of the Orion Nebula Cluster showing newborn stars (orange squares), gravitationally collapsing gas cores (red circles), and non-collapsing gas cores (blue crosses). Credit: Takemura et al. A survey of star formation activity...

Scientists Rewrite the Genesis of Mosquito-Borne Viruses – Discovery Enables Better Designed Vaccines

Cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction of Binjari virus. The projecting spikes are a typical feature of immature flaviviruses such as dengue virus but reveal an unexpected organization. Credit:Associate Professor Fasseli Coulibaly Better designed vaccines for insect-spread viruses...

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope to Probe the Outer Realm of Exoplanetary Systems, Hunt for New Worlds

Left: This is an image of the star HR 8799 taken by Hubble’s Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) in 1998. A mask within the camera (coronagraph) blocks most of the light from...

Africa’s Oldest Human Burial Site Uncovered – Child Buried 78,000 Years Ago

General view of the cave site of Panga ya Saidi. Note trench excavation where burial was unearthed. Credit: Mohammad Javad Shoaee The discovery of the earliest human burial site yet found in Africa, by an...

Simple Surgery Prevents Strokes in Heart Patients – Safe, Inexpensive

Richard Whitlock, professor of surgery at McMaster University, performing heart surgery. Credit: Hamilton Health Sciences Removing left atrial appendage cuts the risk of strokes by more than one-third in patients with atrial fibrillation. A simple surgery...

First Images of the Cosmic Web Reveal Unsuspected Presence of Billions of Dwarf Galaxies

Figure 1: cosmological simulation of the distant Universe. The image shows the light emitted by hydrogen atoms in the cosmic web in a region roughly 15 million light years across. In addition to the...

Scientists Have Figured Out What Triggers Large-Scale Volcanic Eruptions

A lava flow from Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano enters the ocean near Isaac Hale Beach Park on August 5, 2018. The volcano’s 2018 eruption was its largest in over 200 years. Credit: USGS Caldera Collapse...

Alien Species Predicted to Increase by 36% Worldwide by 2050

Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) originally from Africa and now established in Central and Western Europe. Credit: Professor Tim Blackburn, UCL The number of alien (non-native) species, particularly insects, arthropods and birds, is expected to...

Carb-Eating Bacteria Under Viral Threat: Scientists Discover New Group of Viruses That Attack Bacteria in Our Guts

Scientists characterize previously unknown gut reactions. Strictly speaking, humans cannot digest complex carbohydrates — that’s the job of bacteria in our large intestines. UC Riverside scientists have just discovered a new group of viruses that...

No Joke: Pigs and Rodents Can Breathe Through Their Butts

Rodents and pigs share with certain aquatic organisms the ability to use their intestines for respiration, finds a study publishing May 14th in the journal Med. The researchers demonstrated that the delivery of oxygen...

X-ray Experiments and Machine Learning Innovation Could Trim Years off Battery R&D

Staff engineer Bruis van Vlijmen is seen working inside the Battery Informatics Lab 1070 in the Arrillaga Science Center, Bldg. 57. Credit: Jacqueline Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory An X-ray instrument at Berkeley Lab contributed to...

Deep Space Listening: 6000 Days of Research to Hear Continuous Gravitational Waves

Rapidly rotating neutron stars may be “humming” continuous gravitational waves. Credit: K. Wette Remember the days before working from home? It’s Monday morning, you’re running late to beat the traffic, and you can’t find your...

The Surprising “Secret” Lens Making Method Used by the “Father of Microbiology” Discovered After 300 Years

A Van Leeuwenhoek microscope. Credit: Utrecht University/Rijksmuseum Boerhaave/TU Delft A microscope used by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to conduct pioneering research contains a surprisingly ordinary lens, as new research by Rijksmuseum Boerhaave Leiden and TU Delft...

Quantum Leap for Quantum Computing: Ion Beams Create Chains of Closely Coupled Qubits

Ion beams can create chains of closely coupled quantum bits (qubits) based on nitrogen-vacancy “color centers” in diamond for use in quantum computing hardware. The honeycomb pattern in the photo shows the difference between...
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