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Longer Wait For Some Forms Of Cancer Diagnosis For Black And Asian Patients

Black and Asian patients are waiting up to a month longer than White patients for some forms of cancer diagnosis from the point at which they first seek medical help, new research has found.

Signs Of CO2 In A Planet Beyond Our Solar System

In a remarkable display of its precision and accuracy, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency,

Rice Scientists Reengineer Cancer Drugs to Be More Versatile

Control of specific gene-expression pathways could spur better treatment of many diseases

Engineered Wood Grows Stronger While Trapping Carbon Dioxide

Rice U. scientists’ method could lower both emissions and building construction costs

Cornell team finds automated bot helps improve non-native participation in multilingual meetings

Research out of Cornell University finds that during multilingual online meetings the use of an automated bot that interrupts the conversation can help allow non-native speakers to participate on a level playing field with native speakers.

Cornell study finds white-tailed deer carry variants of SARS-CoV-2

A study by researchers at Cornell University has found that white-tailed deer are carrying variants of SARS-CoV-2 that, at one time, circulated among humans but are currently extinct.

Cornell, UMass researchers develop computer model to predict migratory patterns of birds

Researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst have developed a new computer model that uses machine learning to predict the migratory patterns of birds.

Rockefeller University researchers find nutrient that cancer cells crave

A team of researchers has found that arginine, an amino acid produced naturally by our bodies, is a key nutrient for cancer cells, and depriving those cells of the food they crave could make tumors more susceptible to the body’s natural immune response.

Cornell researchers find common chemotherapy drug stops enzymes that lead to cancer cell growth

Cornell University research has found that a commonly used chemotherapy drug called, etoposide, stops enzymes that lead to cancer cells growing.

Weill Cornell Medicine team reveals long-standing mystery about mRNAs

A team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City has unraveled a decades-long mystery blanketing the purpose of some chemical modifications in messenger RNAs (mRNAs).

An Extrasolar World Covered In Water?

An international team of researchers led by Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal and member of the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx), has announced the discovery of TOI-1452 b,

COVID-19 Can Be Less Stressful For The LGBTQ+

For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of inequities faced by their community to the fore, including the precarious state of their mental health.

How Value Shapes The Fluctuations Of Conscious Perception

What we perceive might sometimes reflect the outcome of a value-based decision-making process, a new analysis of the literature suggests

Microbes Protect A Leaf Beetle - But For A Price

Researchers discover a novel mutualism between fungi and insects

Brain Activity During Sleep Differs In Young People With Genetic Risk Of Psychiatric Disorders

Young people living with a genetic alteration that increases the risk of psychiatric disorders have markedly different brain activity during sleep,

Recovery From A Hip Fracture Varies Widely Among NHS Hospitals, Study Finds

How well patients recover after a hip fracture varies enormously between NHS hospitals in England and Wales and in some hospitals one in ten patients died within a month of their fracture, a new study has found.

Dolphins Form Largest Alliance Network Outside Humans, Study Finds

Male bottlenose dolphins form the largest known multi-level alliance network outside humans, an international team led by researchers at the University of Bristol have shown.

Sexual Enjoyment Following Childbirth Is Not Altered By Different Delivery Methods, Research Suggests

Sexual enjoyment in the years following childbirth is unaffected by the way in which the baby is delivered, according to new research.

Scientists Relieved To Discover ‘Curious’ Creature With No Anus Is Not Earliest Human Ancestor

An international team of researchers have discovered that a mysterious microscopic creature from which humans were thought to descend is part of a different family tree.

Weird And Wonderful World Of Fungi Shaped By Evolutionary Bursts, Study Finds

Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered that the vast anatomical variety of fungi stems from evolutionary increases in multicellular complexity.