Nature documentaries will tell you that lions, cheetahs, wolves and other top predators target the weakest or slowest animals and that this culling benefits prey herds, whether it’s antelope in Africa or elk in Wyoming.
Preserving the diversity of forests assures their productivity and potentially increases the accumulation of carbon and nitrogen in the soil, which helps to sustain soil fertility and mitigate global climate change.
New research by University of Michigan astronomers presents the most detailed known images of the inner region of a planet-forming disk.
University of Virginia scientists have identified a promising approach to delay aging by detoxifying the body of glycerol and glyceraldehyde, harmful by-products of fat that naturally accumulate over time.
UVA Health researchers have identified a potential treatment to prevent severe COVID-19 in patients at great risk.
UVA Health’s Heart & Vascular Center is one of just 46 facilities recognized nationally for their longstanding commitment to excellent heart imaging with echocardiograms, which use ultrasound waves to examine the heart’s structure and function.
Researchers at MIT and Harvard are using new techniques to map changes in brain cells of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.
An artificial pancreas originally developed at the University of Virginia Center for Diabetes Technology improves blood sugar control in children ages 2 to 6 with type 1 diabetes, according to a new study.
Lower-income people are significantly less likely to receive a potentially lifesaving treatment for the fastest-increasing type of esophageal cancer –
The saliva of mosquitoes infected with dengue viruses contains a substance that thwarts the human immune system and makes it easier for people to become infected with these potentially deadly viruses, new research reveals.
School of Medicine researchers have identified a gene that plays a crucial role in determining our risk for heart attacks, deadly aneurysms, coronary artery disease and other dangerous vascular conditions.
The rate of suspected suicide attempts by poisoning among children and adolescents ages 10-19 reported to U.S. poison centers increased 30% during 2021 – the COVID-19 pandemic’s first full year – compared with 2019, a new UVA Health study found.
New insight into how harmless gut bacteria avoid triggering inflammation
Researchers test cognitive abilities of the language model GPT-3
Scientists have investigated the underlying mechanism in the brain when we apply stored knowledge to new decision-making situations.
Computer simulations explain change of pace in the visual cortex
Mechanisms of rapid evolutionary adaptation in blackgrass deciphered
Patterns of brainwaves in the prefrontal cortex gate access to consciousness
Anyone with a high-school diploma knows about Newton's law of universal gravitation: it's that the gravitation force behaves like 1 over the distance squared as you separate from a gravitating mass.
The impossible imperative of conversion and the unsustainable ideal of sexual purity and marriage are two of the main reasons why young Quebec adults born to parents who had converted to evangelicalism are deserting the religion and leaving the community.