Improving reading skills through action video games
What if video games, instead of being an obstacle to literacy, could actually help children…
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Nanotherapy offers new hope for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes
Individuals living with Type 1 diabetes must carefully follow prescribed insulin regimens every day, receiving…
Enhanced statistical models will aid conservation of killer whales and other species
Retrieving an accurate picture of what a tagged animal does as it journeys through its…
Inciting instead of coercing, ‘nudges’ prove their effectiveness
To get through challenges such as the pandemic or the climate change, citizens must change…
Bone growth inspired ‘microrobots’ that can create their own bone
Inspired by the growth of bones in the skeleton, researchers have developed a combination of…
Repeated exposure to major disasters has long-term mental health impacts
Repeated exposure to major disasters does not make people mentally stronger, a recent study found:…
Genetic strategy reverses insecticide resistance
Using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, scientists have genetically engineered a method to reverse insecticide resistance. The gene…
New study overturns popular theory on evolution of termite size
Researchers have completed a comprehensive analysis of the head width of over 1500 modern and…
Earth’s interior is cooling faster than expected
Researchers have demonstrated in the lab how well a mineral common at the boundary between…
Meet a colorful but colorblind spider
An international team of researchers found that the brightly colored jumping spider Saitis barbipes could…
Past eight years: Warmest since modern recordkeeping began
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on…
Unusual team finds gigantic planet hidden in plain sight
An astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet…
Risky food-finding strategy could be the key to human success
When it comes to feeding behavior, humans are the inefficient gas-guzzlers of the primate family,…
Copper-based chemicals may be contributing to ozone depletion
As Earth’s ozone layer recovers from past emissions of now-banned CFCs and halons, other chemicals…
Unlocking the mysteries of the pecking order
Dominance hierarchies were first described in chickens a century ago by a Norwegian zoologist who…
Newly-found planets on the edge of destruction
Astronomers have found three Jupiter-like exoplanets that are dangerously close to being ‘swallowed up’ by…
Dried goji berries may provide protection against age-related vision loss
Regularly eating a small serving of dried goji berries may provide protection against age-related macular…
Lost birds and mammals spell doom for some plants
In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers have gauged how biodiversity loss…
Plants: RNA notes to self
Plants need an internal communication system to coordinate their development and growth. Within a plant,…
Martian meteorite’s organic materials origin not biological, formed by geochemical interactions between water and rock
Organic molecules found in a meteorite that hurtled to Earth from Mars were synthesized during…
Epstein-Barr virus may be leading cause of multiple sclerosis
A new study provides compelling evidence of causality between Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis. It…
Bald eagle rebound stunted by poisoning from lead ammunition
A new study finds that despite increasing numbers of bald eagles, poisoning from eating dead…
New insights into seasons on a planet outside our solar system
Imagine being in a place where the winds are so strong that they move at…
Scientists dive deep into the different effects of morning and evening exercise
Exercise causes the body to release hundreds of different signals that improve our health in…
Citizen science data from Berlin show that urban areas can be a refuge for bats, if certain conditions are met
Urbanization is a notable threat to bat populations all over the world, especially through artificial…
When water is coming from all sides
Researchers have developed the first three-dimensional operational storm surge model. The model simulates compound surge…
New explanation for Moon’s half-century magnetic mystery
A new study reveals how the diminutive Moon could have been an occasional magnetic powerhouse…
World’s largest fish breeding area discovered in Antarctica
Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea, a research…
ALMA catches ‘intruder’ redhanded in rarely detected stellar flyby event
Scientists made a rare detection of a likely stellar flyby event in the Z Canis…
Astronomers find evidence for a second supermoon beyond our solar system
In a new study in Nature Astronomy, researchers report a second, super-sized moon orbiting a…
‘Slushy’ magma ocean led to formation of the Moon’s crust
Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible…
Fastest DNA sequencing technique helps undiagnosed patients find answers in mere hours
A research effort set the first Guinness World Record for the fastest DNA sequencing technique,…
Tiger shark migrations altered by climate change
A new study has revealed that the locations and timing of tiger shark movement in…
Machine learning for morphable materials
Flat materials that can morph into three-dimensional shapes have potential applications in architecture, medicine, robotics,…
The ‘Platypus’ of the crab world was an active predator that lurked the Cretaceous seas
Researchers describe the unusually large optical features of Callichimaera perplexa, a 95-million-year-old crab fossil discovered…
Listening to the leaves: Adding bioinspired veins to foamed polymers
Vascular systems found in trees transport vital nutrients from root, to branch, to leaf. In…
Study challenges evolutionary theory that DNA mutations are random
Researchers have found that DNA mutations are not random. This changes our understanding of evolution…
1,000-light-year wide bubble surrounding Earth is source of all nearby, young stars
The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but…
Earliest human remains in eastern Africa dated to more than 230,000 years ago
The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely recognized as representing our species,…
Rainy days harm the economy
Economic growth goes down when the number of wet days and days with extreme rainfall…
Rugby ball-shaped exoplanet discovered
With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope, an international team was able to detect…
To destroy cancer cells, team ‘travels back in time’
When an individual suffers from cancer, the process of programmed cell death called apoptosis does…
Chemical commonly found in consumer products may disrupt a hormone needed for healthy pregnancy
Exposure to phthalates — a group of chemicals found in everything from plastics to personal…
Learning through ‘guided’ play can be as effective as adult-led instruction up to at least age eight
Teaching younger children through ‘guided’ play supports key aspects of their learning and development at…
Black hole at center of Milky Way unpredictable and chaotic
Researchers have found that the black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, not…
New findings may contribute to better diagnosis and treatment of liver cancer
In a new study, researchers have identified the presence of a specific connection between a…
Clothes dryers are an underappreciated source of airborne microfibers
No one likes when their favorite clothes develop holes or unravel after many laundry cycles….
Tomato concentrate could help reduce chronic intestinal inflammation associated with HIV
New research in mice suggests that adding a certain type of tomato concentrate to the…
Possibility of vaccine to prevent skin cancer
Research suggests that a vaccine stimulating production of a protein critical to the skin’s antioxidant…
Decoding inner language to treat speech disorders
What if it were possible to decode the internal language of individuals deprived of the…