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Medical Xpress / Experts explain the science behind later school start times
For many teenagers, the hardest part of the school day may begin well before the first bell rings: waking up when their brains are still wired for sleep.
Tech Xplore / When 242 pipes stand between a county and its emergency room
People rarely think about culverts until they are gone. These plain pipes and boxes carry roads over streams and span less than 20 feet—the federal cutoff for what counts as a bridge. That means road-stream crossings stay ...
Medical Xpress / Heavy metals may help lung cancer resist chemotherapy
Researchers from the Biosciences and Chemistry Department at Durham University have discovered that combinations of metals linked to smoking and pollution may help lung cancer become resistant to chemotherapy. The study, ...
Phys.org / 'Ecological engineers' an existential threat to wildlife of iconic wetland
A study examining how feral water buffalo interact with landscapes has uncovered the pest's disastrous impacts on northern long-necked turtles in the Top End's tropical wetlands.
Phys.org / How 35% of US employees are left on the margins
You've heard of gig workers, freelancers and temporary employees. But do you know about marginal workers? Accounting for about one in six U.S. jobs, it's a huge category of people who are going nowhere fast in the workplace—and ...
Medical Xpress / Rare C-to-G mutations occurred at an unexpectedly high frequency during emergence of SARS-CoV-2 delta variant
SARS-CoV-2 possesses a characteristic surface protein, the spike protein, which plays a central role in viral entry into host cells. The evolution of spike protein mutations has been an important factor in the emergence of ...
Tech Xplore / Why the data behind a part now matters as much as the part itself
Counterfeit and out-of-spec components are entering U.S. defense supply chains through thousands of small and midsized suppliers that make up the lower tiers of the industrial base. Researchers at the Georgia Tech Manufacturing ...
Phys.org / Soot spikes from traffic and holiday bonfires emerge in Addis Ababa air record
An air pollution monitoring network has provided one of the most detailed long-term views yet of the role of black carbon, or soot produced by fires, diesel vehicles and other combustion sources, in Ethiopia's capital, Addis ...
Tech Xplore / As water systems face cyberattacks, research points to solutions
Recent cyberattacks on municipal water systems across the United States have renewed concerns about the cybersecurity of the operational technology that supports critical infrastructure.
Medical Xpress / Researchers develop blood test targeting overlooked marker of liver disease
Liver disease often progresses silently until it becomes a serious condition. By the time symptoms such as fatigue, abdominal discomfort and jaundice develop, liver disease has often progressed beyond its earliest and most ...
Medical Xpress / Early career researchers model West Nile virus corridor across Germany from 2019 to 2025
Researchers at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) are using a range of mathematical models to calculate the expected spread of West Nile virus in Germany. They are also developing forecasting models ...
Medical Xpress / More than 2.6 million Australians projected to be living with or beyond cancer by 2050
New research from The Daffodil Centre, a partnership between Cancer Council NSW and the University of Sydney, suggests that Australia will experience a substantial increase in the number of people living with or beyond cancer ...
