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Planet Spiraling To Its Doom Discovered By UH Astronomers

For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet with a decaying orbit around a star that resembles a future version of our Sun.

Native Hawaiian Colorectal Cancer Patients Twice As Likely To Die From Sepsis

In Hawaiʻi, Native Hawaiian cancer patients have a two-fold increased risk of dying from sepsis, a life-threatening immune response to an infection, compared to other ethnicities, according to a new study co-authored by University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center researchers.

Which States Have The Highest Living Standards? (And More!)

It’s time to take a few steps back, build up a head of steam and dive headfirst into our favorite descriptive data sets and reader questions. Here’s the latest Data Dive!

Incurable Neurodegenerative Myelin Diseases: a Hopeful Advance

A study shows that Riluzole could be effective in the treatment of certain leukodystrophies, neurodegenerative diseases that attack the myelin in the brain of young children.

The Three Dimensions of a Flower

Montreal biologists publish a study demonstrating that photogrammetry allows rapid and precise three-dimensional reconstruction of flowers from two-dimensional images.

Pop’balloons, the First Serious Mixed Reality Game for Autistic Children

There are years of basic research in neuroscience behind the development of the first mixed reality game to diagnose and promote inclusion for people with autism.

Life and Death of an "Altruistic" Bacterium

A new study led by Yves Brun shows how some bacteria living in a biofilm sacrifice themselves to ensure the survival of the community.

Agriculture Makes the Weed

How intensive agriculture turned a wild plant into a pervasive weed

Nematode Teeth Consist of Chitin

Genetically modified worms may make us rethink invertebrate evolution

More Flexible Than Previously Thought: Worms Give Us New Insights into the Evolution and Diversification of TGF-b Signaling Pathways

The TGF-ß cellular signaling network, essential to various functions in all metazoans and also involved in many severe human pathologies like autoimmune diseases and cancer, is more flexible than previously thought.

Mapping the Communications Hub of the Brain

New insights about the thalamus may improve understanding of brain disorders and intervention

Cabbage White Butterflies Utilize Two Gut Enzymes for Maximum Flexibility in Deactivating Mustard Oil Bombs

Depending on the composition of the defensive toxins of their host plants, the insects use two different complementary enzymes for detoxification

Israeli study identifies country of origin with genetic variants in Familial Mediterranean fever

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common hereditary autoinflammatory disease, mostly affecting people of Middle Eastern or Mediterranean origin.