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Science X / Deep inside a desert rock shelter, archaeologists uncovered an Ice Age mystery that refused to stay local for long
A remarkable discovery has been made in an Upper Paleolithic cave in the heart of Israel's rugged Negev Desert. Years after they were last worn, archaeologists dug up fragile seashell beads, still holding specks of ochre ...
Medical Xpress / How studying oral inflammatory diseases can help researchers understand other human diseases
A team of researchers from VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center, the VCU School of Dentistry and the University of Pennsylvania recently published a study in Nature Communications examining why some oral inflammatory diseases ...
Phys.org / Tiny worms reveal backup circuits that keep survival reflexes from failing
A research team led by Professor Chaogu Zheng from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), in collaboration with scientists from Princeton University and Columbia University, has discovered ...
Phys.org / Bacteria turn dissolved uranium into stable compound in 130 days, study finds
Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), together with Wismut GmbH and scientists from the University of Granada in Spain, have demonstrated for the first time that bacteria can convert uranium dissolved ...
Medical Xpress / Brain glutamate changes could link cannabis use to a higher risk of psychosis
Cannabis, commonly known as marijuana, is a plant that contains psychoactive compounds that can temporarily alter people's brain activity and perceptions. While the consumption of this plant for medical or recreational purposes ...
Tech Xplore / Neutrons track lithium in working solid-state battery, revealing uneven charging
Batteries are part of everyday life, powering everything from phones and laptops to electric cars. Most rechargeable batteries use a liquid to help lithium ions move during charging and discharging. But this liquid can create ...
Medical Xpress / Bacterial responses to plasma may forecast mild vs severe COVID-19
Information processing using living organisms is an important area of biotechnology that has already been explored in previous studies.
Medical Xpress / New study provides first evidence of dopamine system injury in the brain of long COVID patients
A new brain imaging study led by researchers at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), published in eBioMedicine, provides the strongest evidence to date that long COVID is associated with injury to dopamine-releasing ...
Tech Xplore / Birdlike robot swims underwater, then flaps into flight without paddling
Loons, gulls, puffins and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These diving birds can plunge into water to swim after prey, and leap back into the air to fly away.
Phys.org / Intricate molecular mechanisms help bacteria evade immune detection
Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a novel mechanism used by the bacteria responsible for gonorrhea to evade immune detection and achieve widespread infection, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings ...
Phys.org / Paleontologists make 'one in a million' discovery of soft tissue preserved in 450-million-year-old fossil
Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called crinoids, resembling stalked sea flowers, were among the first creatures to flourish in Earth's earliest ...
Medical Xpress / What do Sardinia's Blue Zone elders do differently that helps them age so well physically and mentally?
People are living longer than they did at the turn of the 20th century, but living well into old age depends on more than a healthy lifestyle. Scientists say it is also shaped by how we think, adapt and connect with others.