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Study Reveals GLP1-RAs Benefits for Emotional Well-Being

Uncomfortable Pap Smears: Women's HPV and Cancer Check

New Technique Reveals Early Kidney Disease Signs

Experimental Drug from Duke University Offers Safe Pain Relief

Human Therapists Outperform AI in Text-Based CBT

GlP-1 Receptor Agonists Aid Weight Control During Smoking Cessation

Pop Music's Influence on Substance Use Trends

WHO Declares Polio Outbreak in Papua New Guinea

Pediatric Endocrinology Fellow Leads NIH Study on Youth Disease

Asthma: Global Impact on 260 Million People

Flexible Working Arrangements Boost Autistic Employees

Novel Method Enhances Dementia Detection in Hospitals

Duke and Wake Forest Discover ALDH4A1 in Mitochondrial Complex

Bariatric Surgeons Face Clinic Closure Threat

Architectural Design Impact on Health Facilities

High-Fat Diet Study Reveals Immediate Gut Health Effects

Talking Therapy Reduces Risk of Psychosis

Groundbreaking Study Reveals Insights on Ulcerative Colitis

Record Number of Australians Prescribed Medicinal Cannabis

Study Reveals Widespread Snooze Alarm Use

Self-Medication Habits: Coffee, Chocolate, or Painkillers?

Warning: Parents Cautioned on Magnet Toys Risks

Can Fermented Foods Extend Shelf Life and Boost Health?

Future of Food: Insects as Sustainable Protein Solution

Virginia Tech Researchers Find Aging Heart Changes Reduce Irregular Heartbeats

New Study: Oveporexton Enhances Wakefulness

Tools for Faster, Accurate Diagnosis of Childhood Speech Impairments

Study Reveals Disparities in Dementia Care Across Quebec

New Treatment for Celiac Disease Shows Promise

House Republicans' Plan Threatens In-Home Supportive Services Funding

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Female Entrepreneurs' Funding Challenges: Study by Northeastern Professor

Heat-Tolerant Algae Key to Saving Elkhorn Coral

Wild Primates on Jicarón Island Use Stone Tools

Mice Detect Social Rank Using Chemical Cues

Microalgae Monoraphidium Contortum Removes Antibiotic Residues

New Study Reveals Choice Engineering's Impact on Decision-Making

Australians Concerned About Great Barrier Reef's Location

Earth's Distance from Central Molecular Zone: Key Galactic Insights

Laser Ion Acceleration: Cancer Treatment & Semiconductor Processing

Researchers at Tata Institute Unveil Self-Adaptive Glass Materials

Climate Change's Impact on Local Biodiversity Unveiled

Arctic Fjords: Warming Seas Boost Seaweed Growth

Coastal Communities at Risk: Rising Seas Threaten Infrastructure

Rising Global Temperatures Drive Urgent Adaptation in Vulnerable Countries

Global Call to Establish Citizen Science Project for Beach Litter

Unseen Lichens on Stone: Overlooked Ecological Wonders

Cornell Study Reveals Factors in Onion Cutting Spray

University of South Florida Integrates AI in Pre-K-12 Education

Astronomers Use TESS and VLT to Study HD 72968 Star

Female Gray Wolf Found Dead in Northwest Colorado

400+ Underwater Sites in US Contaminated with Unexploded Ordnance

Global Databases Overlook Some Extreme Weather Hazards

Researchers Identify Language-Like Communication in Dolphins

NASA Develops Astrobee: Free-Flying Robotic System

Australian Researchers Uncover 71 New Native Bee Species

Study by Planetary Scientists: Doubt Cast on Mars Water Flow

Veterinarian Tranquilizes Polar Bear from Helicopter

Larger Hilbert Space Key for Quantum Error Correction

Technological Advances in Precision Physiological Monitoring

"Parthenon: Iconic Temple of Athena on Acropolis Hill"

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New Prototype Shows Efficiency of Dimpled Vehicles

Nimble dimples: Agile underwater vehicles inspired by golf balls

Soft Robots Challenge Rigid Electronics: Georgia Tech Study

Navigating Online Pop-Up Cookie Requests

What does it mean to 'accept' or 'reject' all cookies, and which should I choose?

Self-regulating soft oscillators power flexible robots without rigid electronics

Smart Textiles: ETH Zurich Researchers Develop Wearable Tech

Using sound waves to create a smart T-shirt

Effective Machine Learning Models for Diverse Data Training

Rising Concerns Over Data Center Noise

Third-party data annotators often fail to accurately read the emotions of others, study finds

Helping noisy data centers fit into residential neighborhoods

Xiaomi to Invest 50 Billion Yuan in High-End Smartphone Chips

China's Xiaomi to invest nearly $7 bn in chips

'Bridge doctor' combines imaging, neural network to efficiently evaluate concrete bridges' safety

Infrared Thermography Enhances Concrete Bridge Inspections

Semiconductor Chip Giants Converge at Taiwan Tech Expo

Global chip giants converge on Taiwan for Computex

Nvidia CEO Unveils Taiwan's First AI Supercomputer

Nvidia unveils plan for Taiwan's first 'AI supercomputer'

Study Reveals Humans Share Social Robot Training Control

Social robots learning without us? New study cuts humans from early testing

Cryptocurrency Users Face Security Threats

Paris kidnap bid highlights crypto data security risks

Tin-Halide Perovskites: Promising Semiconductors for TFTs

A new strategy to fabricate highly performing thin-film tin perovskite transistors

Fortnite Unavailable on Apple App Store: Epic Games Battle

'Fortnite' unavailable on Apple devices worldwide

Musk's xAI blames 'unauthorized' tweak for 'white genocide' posts

Elon Musk's AI Startup Blames Unauthorized Modification

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Tuesday, 12 October 2021

G344.7-0.1: When a stable star explodes

White dwarfs are among the most stable of stars. Left on their own, these stars that have exhausted most of their nuclear fuel—while still typically as massive as the Sun—and shrunk to a relatively small size can last for billions or even trillions of years.

ESO images some of the biggest asteroids in our Solar System

The detailed images of these 42 objects are a leap forward in exploring asteroids, made possible thanks to ground-based telescopes, and contribute to answering the ultimate question of life, the Universe, and everything.

A 5-sigma standard model anomaly is possible

One of the best chances for proving beyond-the-standard-model physics relies on something called the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix. The standard model insists that the CKM matrix, which describes the mixing of quarks, should be unitary. But growing evidence suggests that during certain forms of radioactive decay, the unitarity of the CKM matrix might break.

Seeking the star stuff that made us

At the 2021 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, two independent research groups will unveil new measurements aiming to explain the birth of half the universe's elements.

Finding sterile neutrinos

Experiments have spotted anomalies hinting at a new type of neutrino, one that would go beyond the standard model of particle physics and perhaps open a portal to the dark sector. But no one has ever directly observed this hypothetical particle.

Examining the origins of proton spin

Where does the proton get its spin? This question has puzzled physicists ever since experiments in the 1980s revealed that a proton's constituent quarks—the most fundamental building blocks of atomic nuclei—account for only about one-third of a proton's spin. Collisions of spin-polarized protons at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, are helping to solve this mystery.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft poised to launch Oct. 16

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is encapsulated in a protective fairing atop an Atlas V rocket, awaiting its 23-day launch window to open on October 16. All is go for the Southwest Research Institute-led mission to begin, as the spacecraft prepares to launch on a 12-year journey of almost 4 billion miles to visit a record-breaking eight asteroids—one main belt asteroid and seven Jupiter Trojan asteroids.

The protective role of cells in overwintering fungi

Scientists have discovered a new role for cells that are known to nurture the overwintering reproductive structures in a type of fungi, according to a study published today in eLife.

Wildfires affect cave diversity underneath scorched surfaces

The landscape at Lava Beds National Monument in northern California is typically home to sage and junipers, with unique lava caves twisting underneath the surface. But in the summers of 2020 and 2021, wildfires tore through the region, burning thousands of acres and leaving the surface charred.

Challenging the big bang puzzle of heavy elements

It has long been theorized that hydrogen, helium, and lithium were the only chemical elements in existence during the Big Bang when the universe formed, and that supernova explosions, stars exploding at the end of their lifetime, are responsible for transmuting these elements into heavier ones and distributing them throughout our universe.

No apparent shortage of prey for southern resident killer whales in Canadian waters during summer

A popular belief that there are fewer Chinook salmon during the summer in Canadian waters for southern resident killer whales, compared to an abundance of fish for northern resident killer whales, has been debunked by a study led by scientists at the University of British Columbia.

Tucked-away marble quarries discovered as source for archaic Apollo

The source of marble for a statue of Apollo on the Greek island of Delos has been a mystery to art historians and archaeologists for decades. The stone's chemistry pointed geochemists to the southern end of the nearby island of Naxos, but no one thought there were ancient marble quarries there. A geoarchaeologist believes he found the source.

Global ISA dynamics observed by Landsat satellites from 1972 to 2019

For half a century, human activities drastically altered the climate, environment, and ecosystem of the Earth, which restricted the sustainable development and affected human well-being. Impervious surface areas (ISA), i.e., artificial structures with impermeable characteristics, mainly including roofs, paved surfaces, roads, and hardened grounds, are the most affected regions. Using more than three million Landsat satellite images, this research developed the first global impervious surface area (GISA) dataset from 1972 to 2019. Based on 120,777 independent and random reference sites from 270 cities all over the world, the omission error, commission error, and F-score of GISA are 5.16%, 0.82%, and 0.954, respectively.

Researchers achieve universal route to family of penta-twinned gold nanocrystals

A research team led by Prof. Li Yue from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with Prof. Li Cuncheng from University of Jinan, has recently developed a universal route with fine kinetic control to a family of penta-twinned gold nanocrystals.

Desert locusts remain a serious threat to Pakistan

In 2019 and 2020, desert locusts once again plagued parts of East Africa and huge areas as far as India and Pakistan through the Arabian Peninsula, in an infestation that was described as the worst in decades. A serious agricultural pest, the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria can feed on most types of crops, including grains, vegetables and fruit, causing significant damage to agricultural production and threatening food security in many countries.

'Caramel receptor' identified

Who doesn't like the smell of caramel? However, the olfactory receptor that contributes decisively to this sensory impression was unknown until now. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (LSB) have now solved the mystery of its existence and identified the "caramel receptor". The new knowledge contributes to a better understanding of the molecular coding of food flavors.

Destructive insects produce high-value products from biowaste

European researchers and industries are putting insects to work—from termites that destroy wooden buildings to insect larvae that are star "poop" composters. Packaging, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and animal feed are just some of the products they are beetling away to make for us.

How satellite images can help with environmental land management

Academics at the University of Surrey's Centre for Environment and Sustainability have undertaken research that proves Earth Observation satellite imagery can accurately assess the quality and quantity of some habitat types.

Large effect of Solar activity on Earth's energy budget

This is the result of a new study by researchers from DTU Space at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who have traced the consequences of eruptions on the Sun on clouds and Earth's energy balance. 

Researchers realize quantum teleportation onto mechanical motion of silicon beams

Quantum technology typically employs qubits (quantum bits) consisting of, for example, single electrons, photons or atoms. A group of TU Delft researchers has now demonstrated the ability to teleport an arbitrary qubit state from a single photon onto an optomechanical device—consisting of a mechanical structure comprising billions of atoms. Their breakthrough research, now published in Nature Photonics, enables real-world applications such as quantum internet repeater nodes while also allowing quantum mechanics itself to be studied in new ways.