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Risky Business: Teenage Chimps Risk It All, Like Humans

For young chimpanzees, gambling on the possibility of a big payout is an attractive prospect, whereas adult apes are more likely to hedge their bets, a new University of Michigan study shows.

Plasma Thrusters Used On Satellites Could Be Much More Powerful

It was believed that running more propellant through a Hall thruster would wreck its efficiency, but new experiments suggest they might power a crewed mission to Mars

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How Sound Waves Trigger Immune Responses To Cancer In Mice

Technique pioneered at the University of Michigan could improve outcomes for cancer and neurological conditions

319-Million-Year-Old Fish Preserves The Earliest Fossilized Brain Of A Backboned Animal

The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain.

Colorectal Cancer Surgery: Gut Microbiota Helps Healing

Published in the journal Gut, the study by scientists at the CHUM Research Centre (CRCHUM) in Montreal identified two bacterial strains that directly affect whether or not anastomotic leakage, more commonly known as intestinal leakage, occurs.

Climate Change May Cut U.S. Forest Inventory by a Fifth This Century

A study led by a North Carolina State University researcher found that under more severe climate warming scenarios, the inventory of trees used for timber in the continental United States could decline by as much as 23% by 2100.

Communities That Suffered Rapid Manufacturing Job Losses Fare Worse on Sustainability

A new study finds communities that have experienced significant job losses in manufacturing over the past 50 years are also less likely to engage in sustainability planning,

Study Underscores Lack of Diversity in Stock Photography Sites

A new study finds that the majority of images related to health topics on stock photography sites are of light-skinned people within a fairly narrow age range, making it more difficult – and expensive –

The Best Genetic Predictors Of Heart Arrhythmia And Hidden Comorbidity

In the largest genetic study of heart arrhythmia to date, researchers led by Kazuo Miyazawa and Kaoru Ito at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan report the discovery of several genes and individual genetic variations that are associated with atrial fibrillation.

Explanation Found For Puzzling Observation Of Shiba States In Superconductors

An analysis uncovers the origin of an experimental finding in superconductors that seemed to contradict theory

UVA Blood Cancer Research Points to New Treatment for Bone Marrow Cancer

Pioneering research into the chronic inflammation often seen in certain blood cancers has identified a promising treatment approach for myelofibrosis, a potentially deadly bone marrow cancer.

Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Essential Tremor Highly Effective After 5 Years

A scalpel-free, high-tech form of brain surgery pioneered at UVA Health offers long-term relief for patients with essential tremor, a common movement disorder, a five-year review shows.

Brains Of Black Americans Age Faster, Study Finds, With Racial Stressors A Likely Factor

The brains of Black adults in the U.S. age more quickly than those of white and Hispanic adults, showing features linked to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias as early as mid-life, according to a new study.

Brains Of Black Americans Age Faster, Study Finds, With Racial Stressors A Likely Factor

Epigenetics study finds that children born during the historic recession have markers of accelerated ageing later in life.

Freshwater Fish Are Significantly More Contaminated With Toxic Forever Chemicals Than Saltwater Fish And Shellfish, Analysis Shows

Eating just one freshwater fish a year can dramatically increase the amount of toxic forever chemicals coursing through a person’s blood, according to a new study that reflects more than a half century of pollution contaminating the Great Lakes and rivers nationwide.

Online Racial Harassment Leads To Lower Academic Confidence For Black And Hispanic Students

Online racial discrimination or harassment has a negative effect on the academic and emotional well-being of students of color. That is the key finding from a study I published recently in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

UVA Creates Potent Tool to Advance Genomics, Disease Research

UVA Health researchers have developed an important new tool to help scientists sort signal from noise as they probe the genetic causes of cancer and other diseases.

UVA Discovery to Improve Drug Development

A surprising discovery from the School of Medicine has torpedoed a key principle used in the development of new drugs to treat diseases.

Antidepressants, Infection Linked to Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Antidepressant use may combine with inflammation during pregnancy to heighten the risk of lifelong neurodevelopmental changes in babies’ brains, such as those linked to autism, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests.

Potentially Deadly Infection Has Dangerous Ally Lurking in Our Guts

New research from the School of Medicine and collaborators reveals how microorganisms found in our guts can worsen dangerous C. difficile infections.