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Acetaminophen Overdose: Leading Cause of Liver Injury

Corrective Eye Surgery: Popular Alternative to Glasses

Ketamine's Off-Label Use for Chronic Pain: No Scientific Support

Covid Infection Accelerates Blood Vessel Aging in Women

Paralyzed Woman Regains Voice in Clinical Trial

Global Mental Health Crisis: Women Disproportionately Affected

"Brain-Eating Amoeba Found in Queensland Water Supplies"

Ordering Coffee: Requesting Extra Hot Brew

Majority of Americans Concerned: Moderate Alcohol Impact on Health

Study: Improved EoE Control Reduces Esophagus Stiffening

New Study Reveals Breakthrough in AML Chemoresistance

Highly Sensitive People at Risk: Mental Health Study

Metabolic Syndrome Severity Linked to Chronic Kidney Disease

Missed Opportunities for Genetic Testing in HGSC

Early Detection of Diabetes Risk Factors in Households

Study: Sleep Fragmentation Impacts Quality of Life in Children with Nocturnal Enuresis

Breakthrough Discovery: 8 New Genes Linked to Schizophrenia

Innovative Strategies to Slow Biological Aging: JAMA Review

Study Finds Missing RNA Boosts Pediatric Brain Tumor Immunotherapy

How Visual Information Travels Through Your Brain

Millions Worldwide Affected by Devastating Rheumatoid Arthritis

Stem Cells from Muscles Enhance Bone Healing

Mifepristone Shows Promise in Breast Cancer Risk Reduction

Care Pathways for Drug-Dependent Women: Anxiety and Referrals

Groundbreaking Study Reveals Suicide Trends in England

Aerospace Industry's Digital Twins Enhance Aircraft Safety

Probiotic Reduces Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Preterm Infants

Scientists Map Mutations Causing Muscular Dystrophy

Gut Neurons Shape Immune Response: Key Findings & Implications

Unlocking Valuable Health Data: Hospitals and Clinics Collecting Vital Information

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Rare Underwater Event: Researchers Await Sea Sex Spectacle

100 Earthquakes Shake Geysers Geothermal Field

Chicago's Urban Flooding Prediction Initiative Launched

Challenges of Coffee Farming Amid Climate Change

Western Colorado Rivers Suffering from Drought and Wildfires

Sweeping Conservation Plan for Joshua Tree Survival

Impact of Cotton Finishing Techniques on Environment

Rising Heat Waves in Texas: Deadly Impact and Causes

Bare Land Strips Scar Mutsamudu Mountainsides

Dr. Jake Johnson Reveals Pet Safety Tips

Salt Ponds Revert, Sandy Beaches Restored, Alabama Land Rebuilt

Offshore Hurricane Erin Downgraded to Category 3 Storm

Global Treaty on Plastics Pollution Negotiations Stall

New Tanystropheid Taxa Discovered in Petrified Forest

Understanding Topological Quantum Systems: Connectivity Over Local Interactions

Global Infertility: Addressing Unmet Needs

Exploring New Horizons: Navigating Unseen Lands

Paris Agreement for Plastic Finalized This Week

New Findings: San Andreas Earthquake, Universe Shape, Food Thickeners

Exploring Skyrmionic Textures for Spintronics

"Hurricane Erin Strengthens, Heads Towards Caribbean"

SpaceX Starship Megarocket Set for Test Flight

Utah's Great Salt Lake: Human Activity Alters Biogeochemical State

Discovery of Active Flat Electronic Bands in Kagome Superconductor

Climate Stress: Linking Global Warming to Conflict

Researchers Uncover Virus Genetic Packing Mechanism

Scientists Uncover Crystal with Oxygen-Breathing Ability

Understanding Damped Harmonic Oscillators in Physics

Humans Adapt to Floods: Private Measures Reduce Losses

First Real-Time 3D Images of Human Embryo Implanting

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Wheel-legged robotic system moves more efficiently in a wide range of environments

Robots with Versatile Wheeled-Legged Locomotion

Nuclear Fusion: Future Energy Solution

Challenges in High-Frequency Radio Data Transmission

Engineers send a wireless curveball to deliver massive amounts of data

Nuclear waste could be a source of fuel in future reactors

Hijacked satellites and orbiting space weapons: In the 21st century, space is the new battlefield

Russian Hackers Seize Satellite During Victory Day Parade

Humanoid Robots Shine at World Robot Games

Photos of Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games show how a human touch is still needed

Self-propelled ice could be the green power of the future

Virginia Tech Scientists Unveil Self-Moving Ice Innovation

Allie, an AI chess bot, learns to play like humans from 91 million Lichess games

Student Discovers Chess Passion Post "The Queen's Gambit"

Australian Workers Embrace Gen AI Tools Without Boss Approval

Many Australians secretly use AI at work, a new report shows. Clearer rules could reduce 'shadow AI'

Caught in a social media echo chamber? AI can help you out

Beware: Clickbait Traps on Social Media

Sibling and friend game time key to keeping children safe in online video games, say researchers

Role of Older Siblings in Online Child Safety

Dry-Processed Electrodes: Eco-Friendly Battery Cell Innovation

A step toward circular batteries: Dry-processed cathodes can now be recycled without toxic solvents

Study Suggests Shifting Electricity Consumption for Lower Emissions

Study identifies best times to consume electricity and cut carbon emissions

Targeted doping strategy use copper ions to boost thermoelectric performance

Qut Researchers Enhance Germanium Telluride with Copper Ions

AI-driven method to reduce traffic delays and improve road safety

Boosting Lagging Productivity Growth with Artificial Intelligence

Does AI really boost productivity at work? Research shows gains don't come cheap or easy

Innovative Framework Estimates Traffic Queue Length Without Sensors

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Wednesday, 15 September 2021

Cosmic dawn holds the answers to many of astronomy's greatest questions

Thanks to the most advanced telescopes, astronomers today can see what objects looked like 13 billion years ago, roughly 800 million years after the Big Bang. Unfortunately, they are still unable to pierce the veil of the cosmic Dark Ages, a period that lasted from 370,000 to 1 billion years after the Big Bang, where the Universe was shrowded with light-obscuring neutral hydrogen. Because of this, our telescopes cannot see when the first stars and galaxies formed—ca. 100 to 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Scientists are hanging rhinos upside-down from helicopters: Here's why

Each year, a selection of apparently weird and pointless scientific experiments receive the Ig Nobel Prize. Awarded by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, the prize honors projects that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."

New pathway of the energy metabolism in peripheral tissues regulated by cytokine GDF15

A study published in the journal Cell Reports describes a new pathway related to the activity of receptors that are associated with several metabolic or cardiovascular diseases such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension. According to the conclusions, many antidiabetic effects of the activators of the PPARβ/δ receptors —potential therapeutic targets for the treatment of type 2 diabetes— are regulated by cytokine GDF15, a protein expressed under conditions of physiological stress.

South Pacific islanders stay afloat despite losing tourists

Although COVID-19 lockdowns severely affected the financial wellbeing of people dependent on tourism, the social, mental and physical well-being of South Pacific islanders living in the region's main tourist destinations actually showed improvements, according to a study.

New climate migration modelling puts a human face on climate impacts

New climate migration modeling work projects increased numbers of people moving within their countries in the developing world—as many as 216 million internal migrants by 2050. The modeling completes work for the World Bank that was released in 2018 as volume 1 of Groundswell. The Climate School's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) has once again partnered with the Bank, the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research to model the remaining World Bank Regions. The completed work, now released in Groundswell Part II, focuses on three new regions—North Africa, Central America, and the Lower Mekong—and includes reviews of climate migration issues for small island developing states (SIDS) and the Middle East. The projected total of "climate migrants" by 2050 in the countries featured in Map 1 is between 48 million (at the low end of the climate friendly scenario) and 216 million (at the high end of the pessimistic scenario).

A journey into an Alaskan volcano

I'm writing this note from the Steadfast; an old 108 ft long crabber boat equipped with a helipad, crane, five state rooms, kitchen, living room, two skiffs, and a science laboratory. The ship was acquired by the Alaska Volcano Observatory and renovated to serve as a research vessel for assisting in volcano monitoring and fieldwork. The Steadfast has a calm charm to it and is smoothly run by Captain John Whittier, deckhands Angus and Mark, Kait the engineer, and Robert the cook.

Foraging habits and tactics, diet and activity levels reveal how two octopus species coexist

There are more than 300 species of octopus living in diverse habitats that span coral reefs, seagrass beds, sand plains and polar ice regions where they feed on lower trophic levels. Most famous for having eight arms (octopus comes from the Greek, octópus, which means "eight foot"), the behavioral ecology of these mysterious sea creatures, especially octopuses that share habitats, is important for understanding the role they play in community structure and biodiversity of an ecosystem. Coexistence has been well studied in many species, but seldom in cephalopods like octopuses.

Copying the small structures of Salvinia leaves

Several plants and animals have evolved surfaces with long-term (i.e., days to months) air-retainability to prevent wetting and submersion. One example is Salvinia, a plant floating on water. The secret "how do they maintain an air-mattress" has been unraveled by researchers.

Captured water, carbon dioxide from car exhaust could help grow food

What if both the water and carbon dioxide (CO2) produced from a vehicle's exhaust system could be captured and used for growing food? Repurposing these two wasted products would be a game changer for reducing the carbon footprint of roadway traffic and helping the agricultural industry feed a growing human population.

Fighting viruses with algae

When the coronavirus pandemic thrust the world into turmoil last year, a group of bioenergy researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) saw an unconventional way to fight the pandemic: algae.

Bandicoot species 'back from the brink' on Australian mainland

A small nocturnal marsupial that once roamed the Australian mainland has been brought back from the brink of extinction after a decades-long conservation effort, authorities said Wednesday.

Flash flood submerges southern French villages, fields

Emergency workers rescued or evacuated hundreds of people in southern France as flash flooding abruptly turned roads and fields into rivers and lakes.

Natural cycles in the Gulf of Alaska accentuate ocean acidification

New research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks shows that the fluctuations of major wind and ocean circulation systems can temporarily accelerate or reverse the rate of ocean acidification in the Gulf of Alaska.

Roads have far-reaching impact on chimpanzees

Roads have a negative impact on chimpanzee populations that can extend for more than 17 km, new research shows.

US startup aims to transform pet food with lab-made chow

Cloudy liquid bubbling in glass tubes is key to a US startup's hopes of remaking the pet food industry by growing nutritional chow in a lab.

SpaceX's first tourists all set for 'camper van' trip to space

The weather seems cooperative and the passengers are raring to go: SpaceX's first space tourists were a picture of calm Tuesday as they prepared to blast off on a three-day mission to orbit the Earth.

In first, SpaceX to send all-civilian crew into Earth orbit

Can four people who've never been to space before spend three days spinning around Earth after only a few months of training?

Five key facts on Inspiration4 space mission

SpaceX is set to launch four people into space Wednesday on a three-day mission that is the first to orbit the Earth with exclusively private citizens on board.

18 of 20 gorillas at Atlanta's zoo have contracted COVID

At least 18 of the 20 gorillas at Atlanta's zoo have now tested positive for COVID-19, an outbreak that began just days before the zoo had hoped to obtain a veterinary vaccine for the primates, officials said Tuesday.

Report: Most nations fall far short in plans to curb warming

Nearly every nation is coming up short—most of them far short—in their efforts to fight climate change, and the world is unlikely to hold warming to the internationally agreed-upon limit, according to a new scientific report.

Trouble in the English language primary classroom

When it comes to teaching English Language, our primary teachers are in trouble—and have been for a very long time.

Primate mothers may carry infants after death as a way of grieving, study finds

Some primate species may express grief over the death of their infant by carrying the corpse with them, sometimes for months, according to a new UCL-led study—with implications for our understanding of how non-human animals experience emotion.