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Phys.org / Crickets munch on microplastics—especially if they have a big mouth

To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the same size as the food they usually eat. Researchers reporting in the journal Environmental Science ...

3 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Toxoplasmosis: How a deadly parasite infects its host cells

Researchers at LMU in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg have discovered how the parasite Toxoplasma gondii builds a specialized structure that allows it to move and invade host ...

2 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Shapeshifting gates guard the cell nucleus, challenging old ideas

An international study led by the University of Basel has discovered that nuclear pore complexes—tiny gateways in the nuclear membrane—are not rigid or gel-like as once thought. Their interiors are dynamically organized, ...

3 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / Study reveals widening inequalities and missed opportunities in heart failure diagnosis

A major study investigating the diagnosis and outcomes of more than 400,000 people with heart failure over the past 20 years has found that diagnostic investigations in primary care were below guideline standards.

2 hours ago in Cardiology
Medical Xpress / Light-activated protein triggers cancer cell death by raising alkalinity

One of the hallmarks of cancer cells is their ability to evade apoptosis, or programmed cell death, through changes in protein expression. Inducing apoptosis in cancer cells has become a major focus of novel cancer therapies, ...

4 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Study warns of 'creeping catastrophe' as climate change drives a rise in infectious diseases

Infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose as great a challenge to global health as new or emerging pathogens, according to a major international study led by The Global Health Network ...

Medical Xpress / Brain researchers draw cellular blueprint for how we think and feel

A new study from experts with Georgia State University has achieved a long-standing goal in neuroscience: showing how the brain's smallest components build the systems that shape thought, emotion and behavior.

4 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Seeing physics as a mountain landscape for classification of nonlinear systems

Imagine standing on top of a mountain. From this vantage point, we can see picturesque valleys and majestic ridges below, and streams wind their way downhill. If a drop of rain falls somewhere on this terrain, gravity guides ...

4 hours ago in Physics
Medical Xpress / How the nervous system activates repair after spinal cord injury

After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this response is controlled ...

2 hours ago in Genetics
Phys.org / Genome advancement puts better Wagyu marbling on the menu

Researchers from the University of Adelaide's Davies Livestock Research Center (DLRC) have described the most complete cattle genome yet, in a study that will lead to improvements in Wagyu breeding and result in better beef ...

8 hours ago in Biology
Medical Xpress / How anti-epilepsy drugs alter a key brain protein structure

A multi-institute team led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators established for the first time how certain drugs used to treat epilepsy affect their target.

2 hours ago in Medications
Phys.org / Define your dating goals: Study shows clarity is key to dating satisfaction

Single people who date without a clear understanding of what they are looking for in a relationship experience more loneliness and decreased life satisfaction, McGill researchers have found.

4 hours ago in Other Sciences