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Three From MIT Named 2023 Rhodes Scholars

Jack Cook, Matthew Kearney, and Jupneet Singh will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall.

Breathing Is Going to Get Tougher

Hotter temps = more air pollution from natural sources

This Molecule Is Vital to Our Survival. Now We Know What It Looks Like

In order to live, all mammals depend on the function of a large molecule in our nerve cells made up of four proteins. But what these proteins look like has been mostly unknown, making it difficult to treat diseases related to the molecule. Now, an international team of researchers, including a group from the University of Copenhagen, have mapped the missing pieces.

AI That Can Learn The Patterns Of Human Language

On its own, a new machine-learning model discovers linguistic rules that often match up with those created by human experts.

Our Skin Cells Could Tell a Tale of Parkinson’s Without Us Even Knowing

The lipids, or fat molecules, in the skin are significantly different in patients with a certain type of Parkinson’s disease from healthy individuals, a new multicenter study involving the University of Copenhagen finds. The researchers hope the findings could improve early detection of Parkinson’s disease in younger people.

Measuring The “Woodwork Effect” In Medical Insurance

Study: When adults gain access to Medicaid, they sign up their previously unenrolled kids, too — yet many more remain outside the system.

Bacteria Control Their Metabolism When Going into Biofilm Formation

This shift in metabolism has strong implications for tolerance to antibiotics

The Planet That Could End Life on Earth

Experiment demonstrates solar system’s fragility

Fetal Exposure To Drugs May Affect Infants’ Brain Development

New study demonstrates that in utero exposure to mother’s antiepileptic or antidepressant medication may affect development of the newborn brain networks.In the study novel mathematical methods were developed to allow future research on how commonly used drugs or other environmental conditions affect the newborn brain.

Genes Can Affect Our Nutrient Tolerance

According to an international study, minor genetic differences can affect the ability to utilise the energy of various nutrients. This work shows how nutritional planning based on genetic data could promote the development of personalised nutrition for health.

Polygenic Risk Scores Identify High-Risk Individuals In European And Asian Ancestry, But Less So In African Ancestry

A new study from the INTERVENE consortium has evaluated genome-wide risk prediction of common diseases across multiple ancestries in one million people.

Dramatic Events In Demographics Led To The Spread Of Uralic Languages

Our understanding of the prehistory of the Finnish language is becoming clearer: Shifts in climate and periods of drought may have been the original reasons for which the community, which originated in western Siberia, spread first from east to west and later from south to north.

Phase Transitions In The Early Universe And Their Signals

A Helsinki research team has demonstrated how an early universe phase transition will lead to gravitational wave signals potentially visible in the upcoming satellite missions. The research results were recently published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters.

Balancing Lipids And Recycling To Prevent Mitochondrial Meltdown

An international team led by scientists at the University of Helsinki have discovered that the cellular balance of lipid droplets can impact the recycling of damaged mitochondria. These results have importance for cell survival and nervous system dysfunction.

Study Examines Straight Men and Their Sexual Attraction to Transgender Women

An analysis of online Reddit conversations also revealed a paradox: the same men devalue both trans and cisgender women

Friendship Ornaments From The Stone Age

Skilfully manufactured slate ring ornaments were fragmented on purpose, using pieces of rings as tokens. The fragments have most likely served as symbols of the social relations of Stone Age hunter-gatherers.

Celebrity Sightings Have a Built-In Contradiction

UC Riverside research helps explain a tradeoff in human behavior

Rice astronomers use Webb Telescope to discover 24 previously unseen young stars

Astronomer Megan Reiter and her team from Rice University used the James Webb Space Telescope to study a cluster of stars called NGC 3324 and have discovered two dozen previously unseen young stars about 7,500 light years from Earth.

Texas chemists learn dangers of adding too many change-acceptor molecules to semiconducting nanocrystals

A new study has found that adding too many charge-acceptor molecules to the surface of semiconducting nanocrystals can be detrimental.

NIH grant to help U. of Missouri study how young students can perform better in math

A four-year $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help researchers at the University of Missouri create a Learning Disabilities Innovation Hub.