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Medical Xpress / Lab-grown human retina reveals how vision loss begins in Batten disease
Researchers have developed a new way to study CLN3-Batten disease, a rare inherited condition that causes early vision loss in children followed by progressive neurological decline. Their findings offer new insight into how ...
Dialog / Hydroclimate whiplash damages California's tallest redwoods after years of drought
Tall trees are generally associated with high-biomass forests. This is particularly true for forests dominated by Sequoia sempervirens (hereafter redwood), the world's tallest tree species. Extreme decay resistance, the ability ...
Phys.org / After 80 years, elusive molecules reveal how ozone starts turning plant emissions into haze
Scientists have directly observed a fleeting chemical reaction that creates a key ingredient in urban smog. The research offers insight into the earliest stages of pollution formation and could help improve air quality forecasting ...
Phys.org / A 4-star system caught eclipsing itself in a way never seen before
Astronomers have found a four-star system doing something that has never been confirmed before. The system, TIC 433545934, has two close pairs of stars orbiting each other. While each pair eclipses its own two stars, as usual, ...
Phys.org / Human activity is pushing lakes beyond their natural carbon limits
Lakes play an important role in capturing and storing carbon, which accumulates in their sediments. But the amounts they can absorb have varied considerably over time. Jean-François Lapierre, a professor in the Department ...
Medical Xpress / Can research gleaned from a hibernating snail save a human heart?
University of Alberta researchers have discovered a novel drug that unlocks the secret of snail hibernation, allowing them to safely put non-hibernating animal organs into a deep metabolic sleep. The study, published in Nature ...
Tech Xplore / Army to spend $2B to build nuclear microreactors at 5 bases as US seeks to ramp up nuclear power
The U.S. Army announced Wednesday that it plans to add nuclear microreactors at five military bases from New York to Texas as a reliable source of energy independent of the commercial electric grid.
Medical Xpress / FDA approves new treatment for hard-to-treat pancreatic cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday the approval of a treatment for pancreatic cancer that could usher in a new era in managing one of the deadliest forms of the disease.
Phys.org / JWST reveals a race against time for forming planets
Planets form from disks of gas and dust around young stars, but the gas needed for growth does not last forever. New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) now offer a new view of how this gas escapes ...
Phys.org / Chagas parasite's survival trick offers antimalarial-style target
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have identified a potential new target to prevent the spread of Chagas disease. The parasitic infection is transmitted through the bite of the kissing bug in Central and South America ...
Phys.org / Sound waves do double duty, carrying and protecting quantum information
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a promising new way to protect fragile quantum information using nothing but mechanical vibrations—essentially ...
Tech Xplore / Time limits and a midnight cutoff: Meta's new rules for kids go further, but critics say not enough
Kids under 18 will soon see a host of changes to their Instagram and Facebook experiences thanks to a historic $18 billion settlement Meta Platforms reached Wednesday with 48 U.S. states.