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Medical Xpress / Experimental plague vaccine strategy protects mice with missing key immune defenses
The plague has killed more people than World War II. The bacterium Yersinia pestis (Yp), which causes plague, has triggered three major pandemics throughout history, leaving behind a casualty toll of more than 200 million ...
Science X / Beneath pale ash, a quantum microscope reveals hidden traces of Neanderthal fire use preserved for millennia
An ancient hearth at El Salt (Spain) is giving up its secrets—not with flames, but with physics. Scientists have already established that Neanderthals used to make fires at this site (spanning from 80,000–45,000 years ago), ...
Phys.org / How did inbred brown tree snakes take over the island of Guam?
If you look up invasive species in a textbook, there's a good chance you'll find a picture of a brown tree snake. Native to Australia and the South Pacific, the brown tree snake arrived on Guam sometime after World War II, ...
Medical Xpress / Wireless skin sensor could continuously track soft tissue disorders from home
Northwestern scientists have developed a novel wireless sensor device that can continuously monitor skin elasticity in patients with soft tissue disorders, including lymphedema and scleroderma, which can support early disease ...
Medical Xpress / Scientists find compound that may help muscles stay strong as we age
Skeletal muscle is one of the first tissues to decline with age. This decline can lead to weakness, scarring, fat accumulation inside muscle and the loss of fast-twitch muscle fibers that are important for quick, powerful ...
Medical Xpress / How the heart's 'little brain' helps it function and protects it against stress
For years, scientists have known that the heart has its own network of nerves, the intrinsic cardiac nervous system (ICNS), sometimes called its "little brain." Exactly how it functions has remained something of a mystery, ...
Phys.org / Quantum internet leaves the lab with first real-world entanglement over busy telecom fiber
Quantum information is notoriously fragile. Internet traffic is anything but. Yet Northwestern University scientists have demonstrated they can peacefully coexist inside the same fiber-optic cable.
Phys.org / Oxygen collisions at the LHC show new indications of extreme state of matter
All four main LHC experiments have found new signs that oxygen and neon collisions may create the extreme state of matter that existed during the first microseconds after the Big Bang.
Phys.org / Sperm whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep
New research from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel has uncovered the mechanism that allows sperm whales to sleep in a unique vertical position just under the ocean surface.
Medical Xpress / Injectable biomaterial harnesses the immune system to promote brain repair after stroke
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed an injectable biomaterial that helps transform the cavity left behind after a stroke caused by a blood clot into an environment more supportive of repair. By recruiting ...
Phys.org / Unraveling the climate behind the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations
The most severe droughts in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean arose when multiple natural climate cycles coincided, according to a new study from Stockholm University published in Science Advances. The findings shed new light ...
Medical Xpress / Spontaneous changes in brain state influence the readiness to form memories, neuroscientists find
Most everyday moments are quickly forgotten, while others stay with us for a lifetime. How the brain determines which memories are retained and which are lost remains an open question.
