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The Local Universe Within 600 Million Light Years From The Milky Way Revealed By New Simulation

Using supercomputer simulations researchers have been able to create the most accurate simulation to date that depicts the evolution of the Local Universe from the Big Bang to the present-day.

Remote Work And Related Mobility Are On The Rise – And The Role Of The State Is Changing

The coronavirus pandemic has increased digital nomadism, which can bring about new forms of inequality in professional life.

The Secret Hideouts Of Ovarian Cancer Revealed – Findings Boost The Development Of Precision Therapies

Researchers at the University of Helsinki discovered how ovarian cancer hides from the body’s immune system. The findings will help develop novel precision therapies for ovarian cancer, a common and aggressive cancer type.

Personal Genetic Risk Motivates Positive Changes In Health Behaviour, Study Shows

GeneRISK study shows that information about personal genetic risk for cardiovascular disease motivates individuals to take better care of their health. This is the first comprehensive study assessing the impact of overall disease risk information based on both genetic and traditional health factors on lifestyle.

Enhancing At-Home COVID Tests with Glow-In-The Dark Materials

Researchers at the University of Houston are using glow-in-the-dark materials to enhance and improve rapid COVID-19 home tests.

City or Country Living? Research Reveals Psychological Differences

Study Suggests Health Disparities May Cause Those Living in Rural Areas to be More Neurotic, Less Open

Study Finds Neighborhood Apps Increase Perceptions of Crime Rates

Media Meant to Inform Can Cause Skewed View of Increased Crime

Study Finds Sulfate Pollution Impacts Texas Gulf Coast Air

Shipping Emissions, Humidity and Strong Sea Breeze Contribute to Hazy Conditions

Assessing Connections In The Brain’s Reading Network

State-of-the-art analysis of brain images from nearly 700 children has turned up surprisingly few links between white matter structure and reading ability.

Physicists Observe An Exotic “Multiferroic” State In An Atomically Thin Material

Discovery shows for the first time that multiferroic properties can exist in a two-dimensional material; could lead to more efficient magnetic memory devices.

Singing In The Brain

MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that respond to singing but not other types of music.

Can Machine-Learning Models Overcome Biased Datasets?

A model’s ability to generalize is influenced by both the diversity of the data and the way the model is trained, researchers report.

A “Hot Jupiter’s” Dark Side Is Revealed In Detail For First Time

The planet’s night side likely hosts iron clouds, titanium rain, and winds that dwarf Earth’s jetstream.

On A Mission To Alleviate Chronic Pain

Fan Wang’s studies of how the brain controls pain may one day lead to new treatments that could help millions of people.

A Breakthrough in Big Data Processing Helps Trace Chemicals in Complex Mixtures

An international team of scientists led by Tomáš Pluskal from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague) has introduced a new generation of software enabling scientists to analyse large volumes of data from mass spectrometry, a technique that separates chemicals by their weights. The open-source project MZmine provides a new window into the chemical space that surrounds us and lives within. The latest advances in MZmine 3 are now published in a Nature Biotechnology paper.

Protein Structure Offers Clues To Drug-Resistance Mechanism

A new study sheds light on how a protein pumps toxic molecules out of bacterial cells.

Switching To A More Plant-Based Diet Affects Nutrient Intake

A study conducted at the University of Helsinki demonstrated that the partial replacement of animal protein sources in the diet with plant-based protein sources resulted in an increase in folate and iron intake, but a decrease in vitamin B12 and iodine intake.

New Research Highlights Clinical Importance Of Interaction Between Immune Cells In The Lymphoma Microenvironment

The efficacy of immunotherapies in the most common lymphoid malignancy, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, has been modest. New findings on how immune cells communicate could inform a more accurate way to group patients for treatment.