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Sophia Antipolis, 19 May 2021: Cities harbour a dangerous cocktail of environmental stressors which politicians must tackle to save lives and preserve health. That's the conclusion of a paper published today in European Heart Journal, a…

ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University is partnering in a $36 million grant from the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) for its Accelerated Materials Design and Discovery (AMDD) collaborative university research program, which seeks to use…

A new study is taking the air out of a hypothesis linking early Earth's oxygenation to larger, more complex organisms. Georgia Tech researchers report a more complex effectCredit: NASA Scientists have long thought that there was a…

Keeping it cool despite climate changeCredit: Chromatograph @ unsplash Due to climate change, the average global temperature will rise in the coming decades. This should also significantly increase the number of so-called cooling…

Credit: DESI collaboration A five-year quest to map the Universe and unravel the mysteries of 'dark energy' began officially on May 17 at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. To complete its quest, the Dark Energy…

Advancing PDT as a rapid response to pandemicsCredit: Vladislav Yakovlev/Texas A&M University WASHINGTON, May 18, 2021 -- The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the pressing need to mitigate a fast-developing virus as well as…

Twice as many eligible patients got screened for hepatitis C when it was already ordered for them compared to those who had to request it, according to a new study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of…

Support interventions such as group meetings and family sessions that promoted healthy behaviors resulted in a 29% increased probability of survival over timeCredit: BYU Photo New research from BYU published in PLOS Medicine found that…

Credit: SMU (Southern Methodist University) DALLAS (SMU) - Krista Lynne Smith, an assistant professor of physics at SMU, has received a grant from NASA to study one of the most extreme objects in the universe - Active Galactic Nuclei.…

Superfast, portable COVID-19 testing method detects the virus much faster than currently available methodsCredit: Minghan Xian, Hao Luo, Xinyi Xia, Chaker Fares, Patrick H. Carey IV, Chan-Wen Chiu, Fan Ren, Siang-Sin Shan, Yu-Te Liao,…

Researchers analyzed current conservation strategies and recommended changes to how and where declining milkweed (an essential food source for butterfly larvae) can be restoredCredit: Rodrigo Solis-Sosa Simon Fraser University…

What The Study Did: Telemedicine use grew rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic but there was geographic variation in its use so researchers in this study examined the association of county-level telemedicine use with community factors…

Issues were identified in Black communities and in areas with food insecurity in West VirginiaCredit: WVU Photo In studying COVID-19 testing and positivity rates in West Virginia between March and September 2020, West Virginia…

Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) seeks to empower more people to participate in, and benefit from, AI A new cross-disciplinary research initiative at MIT aims to promote the understanding and use of AI across all…

By targeting the bonds between bacteria and yeast that can form a sticky dental plaque, a new therapeutic strategy could help wash away the build-up while sparing oral tissues, according to a new study by a team from the University of…

A new study may have uncovered why wall lizards have become the most successful reptile in the Mediterranean region. The results reveal how drastic changes in sea levels and climate 6 million years ago affected species formation in the…

Structural racism is a direct predictor of state-level racial disparities in COVID deaths More than a year into the pandemic, the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 among racial and ethnic minorities in the US has been well…

Rapid removal of gases during battery fires is critical to explosion preventionCredit: (Photo by Allan Tuan | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) RICHLAND, Wash.--A deceptively simple sensor system developed at the U.S. Department…

Researchers have described a new approach to analysing the forces at play behind diseased heart vessels, which could help cardiologists predict heart attacks in patients Analysing the forces at work behind the obstructions that cause heart…

May 18, 2021 - Offering interventions to young people in the general community can prevent the emergence of certain mental health disorders, according to the first comprehensive systematic review to address this question. The results…