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Magnetic Robots Walk, Crawl, And Swim

New soft-bodied robots that can be controlled by a simple magnetic field are well suited to work in confined spaces.

Focus On Function Helps Identify The Changes That Made Us Human

A new approach for identifying significant differences in gene use between closely-related species provides insights into human evolution.

MIT Physicists Generate The First Snapshots Of Fermion Pairs

The images shed light on how electrons form superconducting pairs that glide through materials without friction.

Chemists Discover Why Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Is So Efficient

The disorganized arrangement of the proteins in light-harvesting complexes is the key to their extreme efficiency.

When Computer Vision Works More Like A Brain, It Sees More Like People Do

Training artificial neural networks with data from real brains can make computer vision more robust.

Knowledge of Greenhouse Gas Effect Shifts Public Opinion on Global Warming

A short science lesson can help sway public opinion on climate change, research from Washington State University indicates.

WSU Scientists Identify Contents of Ancient Maya Drug Containers

Scientists have identified the presence of a non-tobacco plant in ancient Maya drug containers for the first time.

Computer Vision System Marries Image Recognition And Generation

MAGE merges the two key tasks of image generation and recognition, typically trained separately, into a single system.

Researchers Develop Recyclable Composites

A WSU research team has created a recyclable carbon-fiber reinforced composite that could eventually replace the non-recyclable version used in everything from modern airplane wings and wind turbines to sporting goods.

Researchers Uncover A New CRISPR-Like System In Animals That Can Edit The Human Genome

The first RNA-guided DNA-cutting enzyme found in eukaryotes, Fanzor could one day be harnessed to edit DNA more precisely than CRISPR/Cas systems.

Climate Change and Suppression Tactics Are Critical Factors Increasing Fires

The millions of people affected by 2020’s record-breaking and deadly fires can attest to the fact that wildfire hazards are increasing across western North America.

Study Finds College Vaccine Mandates Lowered COVID-19 Deaths By 5%

A national study looking at the impacts that mandated vaccine policies had on universities and colleges and their surrounding communities found that those policies reduced the overall death rate of the U.S. in fall 2021 by about 5%, roughly 7,300 lives.

Maunakea Telescopes Help Uncover Source Of Puzzling Gamma-Ray Bursts

Mysteries surrounding the origins of castaway gamma-ray bursts or flashes of intense energy may be unlocked thanks to data collected from some of the most powerful telescopes on Earth including two observatories on Maunakea

Microbes From Hawaiʻi Volcanic Environments May Explain Early Life On Earth, Mars

Bacterial communities in centuries-old lava caves and tubes on Hawaiʻi Island are more diverse than scientists expected, and may help us understand how life might have existed on Mars and early Earth.

Menthol In E-Cigs Could Hurt Lungs, UH Research Finds

This paper has been selected for “American Physiological Society (APS) Select,” a collection from APS that showcases some of the best recently published articles in physiological research

UH Astronomers Produce Catalog To Extensively Map Universe

What does our universe look like at the largest size scales? A team of researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) and Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary has produced a massive new catalog of high-fidelity distance estimates to more than 350 million galaxies, revealing the soap-bubble structure of the universe in detail.

Waimea Valley ‘Bioblitz’ Unlocks Microbial, Environmental Understanding

The keys to saving endangered species and improving the ecology of our communities may be found in thousands of microbiomes and microbes examined by researchers from the ocean to the summit of the Waimea Valley watershed on Oʻahu.

Over Half Of Known Human Pathogenic Diseases Can Be Aggravated By Greenhouse Gas Emissions

More than half of known human pathogenic diseases such as dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria, Zika and more, can be aggravated by climate change.

Which People Are Most Likely To Get Vaccinated For COVID-19?

With updated COVID-19 boosters being recommended to provide increased protection against the circulating omicron variant, a new paper by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Waiʻanae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC) researchers is shedding light on who is getting booster shots in Hawaiʻi, and how trust and consumption of different information sources affect that decision.