Virginia Tech researchers awarded grant to increase understanding of industrial hemp
With the significant increase in industrial production of hemp, there is a demand for newly discovered uses of its products. ...
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Does form follow function? Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers advance understanding of why cell parts look the way they do
Scientists have long understood that parts of cells, called organelles, evolved to have certain shapes and sizes because their forms ...
Understanding of mechanisms behind post-exercise lack of appetite can open new paths to obesity treatment
The complex relationship between physical activity and energy balance – food intake versus energy expenditure – is still a challenge ...
Understanding how choice overload in ChatGPT recommendations impacts decision-making
Over the past few years, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed numerous breakthroughs. One such remarkable milestone was ...
New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening, understanding the changes could help predict future trends in extreme events
Woods Hole, Mass. (Sept 25, 2023) -- The Gulf Stream transport of water through the Florida Straits has slowed by ...
New research findings: Understanding the sex life of coral gives hope of clawing it back from the path to extinction
For the first time, scientists have mapped the reproductive strategies and life cycle of an endangered coral species, offering hope ...
New Mars gravity analysis improves understanding of possible ancient ocean
The first use of a novel method of analyzing Mars’ gravitational force supports the idea that the planet once had ...
New research brings greater understanding of Asian winter monsoon
Scientists have discovered a new technique which will shed light on the phenomena of winter monsoons – the heavy autumn ...
Multimillion-dollar scientific grant program releases third cycle of funding to increase foundational understanding of sarcoidosis
WASHINGTON (September 20, 2023)—The Ann Theodore Foundation Breakthrough Sarcoidosis Initiative (ATF-BSI), in partnership with the Milken Institute, launched its latest ...
How good is Google Bard’s visual understanding? An empirical study on open challenges
Bard, Google’s AI chatbot, based on LaMDA and later PaLM models, was launched with moderate success in March 2023 before ...
Global obesity battle stymied: Deeper understanding is needed
Prof. John Speakman from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, alongside Prof. Kevin ...
Understanding bacterial motors may lead to more efficient nanomachine motors
A research group led by Professor Emeritus Michio Homma (he, him) and Professor Seiji Kojima (he, him) of the Graduate ...
Understanding and treating pain in children
Go ahead. Try asking a crying child or baby what’s wrong, and you most likely will come away as baffled ...
The “Choreography” between hormones and the brain key to understanding how women adapt to motherhood
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Gregorio Marañón Health Research Institute and the Hospital del Mar Research ...
Scientists take next big step in understanding genetics of schizophrenia
Genetically speaking, we are individuals different from each other because of slight variations in our DNA sequences – so-called genetic ...
Understanding how cells avoid obstacles
Imagine a dark room packed full of furniture. Now imagine moving through it to get to the other side, using ...
Using topology, Brown researchers advance understanding of how cells organize themselves
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The fact that humans and other living organisms can develop and grow from a single cell relies ...
Crowdsourcing contests: Understanding what brings high rewards, low risk
AMES, IA – During Frito-Lay's first "Crash the Super Bowl" contest in 2006, thousands of participants submitted 30-second videos promoting ...
Saving species from extinction – high-quality kākāpō population sequencing provides breakthrough in understanding key conservation genetics
Credit: Jake Osborne High-quality sequencing of nearly the entire kākāpō population, funded through a Genomics Aotearoa project, is ...
‘You just emotionally break’: understanding COVID-19 narratives through public health humanities
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A new health humanities essay from the University of Missouri highlights how the narrative of many news ...
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Pumped for frigid weather: study pinpoints cold adaptations in nervous system of Antarctic octopus
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Men with metastatic prostate cancer live longer thanks to new drugs
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Genomic analysis reveals ancient cancer lineages in clams
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Researchers propose a unified, scalable framework to measure agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
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Gut bacteria found in wild wolves may be key to improving domestic dogs’ health
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Study uncovers reasons Americans did not get booster vaccines