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Exercise Can Modify Fat Tissue in Ways That Improve Health—even Without Weight Loss

Exercise is one of the first strategies used to treat obesity-related health problems like Type 2 diabetes and other cardiovascular disease, but scientists don’t understand exactly how it works to improve metabolic health.

A New, Sustainable Way to Make Hydrogen for Fuel Cells and Fertilizers

A new sustainable and practical method for producing hydrogen from water has been discovered by a team of researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan led by Ryuhei Nakamura.

Strong, Stretchy, Self-Healing Polymers Rapidly Recover from Damage

A catalytic combination of multiple monomers generates a polymer that has an exceptional ability to self-heal

Selective Synthesis of Meta Isomers Now Possible

A roof-like ligand permits the selective synthesis of one of the three possible isomers of a key class of aromatic chemicals

Shining Light on a Fluid Completely Changes Its Dielectric Permittivity

Simply illuminating a fluid can cause its interaction with an electric field to greatly vary

Fluorescent Molecules Revealed by Quantum Chemistry and Machine Learning

Six fluorescent compounds have been uncovered by a novel strategy for designing molecules that combines machine learning and quantum chemistry calculations

Nature’s Own Assembly Line

RIKEN-engineered microbes and plant lignin could soon help produce everything from car tires to engine components.

Self-Templating, Solvent-Free Supramolecular Polymer Synthesis

A green method for producing crystalline supramolecular fibers promises to make polymer production more sustainable

Threatened Aldabra Giant Tortoise Genome Decoded

They can live for more than 100 years and weigh up to 250 kilograms – Aldabra giant tortoises.

Early Self-Regulation Boosts Children’s Educational Success

A study by the universities of Zurich and Mainz has shown that teaching children how to manage their attention and impulses in primary school has a positive long-term effect on their later educational success.

Research Shows How Poliovirus Takes Over Cells from Within

For the first time, researchers at Umeå University can now show how the dreaded poliovirus behaves when it takes over an infected cell and tricks the cell into producing new virus particles. Polio was thought to be almost eradicated, but infection has now been rediscovered in London and New York.

Diabetes Self-Care Reached by 32% Who Built Trust with Community Health Workers

One-third of 986 patients achieved long-term self-care of their type 2 diabetes after building trusting relationships with community health workers (promotores in Spanish) over 12 weeks

Dozens More Genes Linked with Stroke; Potential Drug Targets Identified

Researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) are part of an international team that discovered 61 additional genetic loci associated with stroke and six genes that are potential targets for drug therapy to prevent or treat stroke.

UT Health San Antonio, University Health Trial Shows Bionic Pancreas Improves Type 1 Diabetes Management Compared to Standard Insulin Delivery Methods

A device known as a bionic pancreas, which uses next-generation technology to automatically deliver insulin, was more effective at maintaining blood glucose (sugar) levels within normal range than standard-of-care management among people with type 1 diabetes

Study Links Omega-3s to Improved Brain Structure, Cognition at Midlife

Holy mackerel! Could eating salmon, cod, tuna, herring or sardines keep our brains healthy and our thinking agile in middle age? New research makes this connection.

Edinburgh University head warns of post-Brexit ‘brain drain’

In a guest editorial in the prestigious American journal, Science, the head of the University of Edinburgh argues that the British withdrawal from the European Union (EU) caused a partial collapse of the “collaborative ecosystem of research and innovation.”

The No-Tech Way to Preserve California’s State Grass

Disappearing native is like an environmental Swiss Army knife