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Nursing resources affect hospital patient experience ratings
Waltham — April 10, 2024 — The nursing work environment, nurse education, and staffing levels are independent factors affecting hospital scores on a key...
FAU Engineering selected by NASA for University Nanosatellite Program
Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science is among eight university teams in the United States selected to...
Tracking a protein’s fleeting shape changes
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed a powerful, new technique to generate “movies” of changing protein structures and speeds...
Study finds iron-rich enamel protects, but doesn’t color, rodents’ orange-brown incisors
Chattering squirrels, charming coypus, and tail-slapping beavers — along with some other rodents — have orange-brown front teeth. Researchers have...
E-tongue can detect white wine spoilage before humans can
PULLMAN, Wash. – While the electronic tongue bears little physical resemblance to its namesake, the strand-like sensory probes of the...
AI speeds up drug design for Parkinson’s by ten-fold
Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments. Researchers have used artificial intelligence...
Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human – defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates
Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins – and produced a “bizarre” evolutionary...
Toronto researchers uncover human DNA repair by nuclear metamorphosis
Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered a DNA repair mechanism that advances understanding of how human cells stay...
How soil microbes survive in harsh desert environments
Prolonged droughts followed by sudden bursts of rainfall – how do desert soil bacteria manage to survive such harsh conditions?...
From defects to order: Spontaneously emerging crystal arrangements in perovskite halides
Perovskites are among the most extensively studied materials in modern materials science. Their often unique and exotic properties, which stem...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Warm seawater speeding up melting of ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ scientists warn
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Probiotics during pregnancy shown to help moms and babies