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Plants Between Light And Darkness

How plants optimize photosynthesis under changing light conditions

Argentine Ants Will Do Anything For Sugar, But They Won’t Do This

In a twist that surprised UCLA researchers, starving ants were more cautious, not less, in their search for food

Wildfire Smoke May Warm The Earth For Longer Than We Thought

Wildfires are a major source of air pollution. They are also predicted to worsen as climate change progresses.

This Sticker Looks Inside the Body

A new stick-on ultrasound patch can record the activity of hearts, lungs and other organs for 48 hours at a time

This AI Can Harness Sound to Reveal the Structure Of Unseen Spaces

It's called a neural acoustic field model, and it can also consider what noises would sound like as you traveled through virtual reality.

MIT Researchers: Sound of Your Voice Can Help Predict Disease

Your voice could help doctors diagnose everything from cancer to Alzheimer’s disease to depression.

This Gulp of Engineered Bacteria Is Meant to Treat Disease

A small study of people with a rare disorder that prevents them from processing protein is an early attempt at creating “living” medicines.

Anti-obesity Medication’s Steep Price Tag Adds to Public Health Disparities

The latest anti-obesity medication for adults with overweight and obesity comes with a high financial burden.

Insights & Outcomes: Skin Cells, The 22nd Amino Acid, And Data From Wearables

Insights & Outcomes pulls on a warmer lab coat to explore the flexibility of skin cells, the life story of an amino acid, the potential health benefits of wearable digital technology, and a grant for an innovative cancer treatment.

Decoding The Cell Signals Between Young Proteins And Their ‘Chaperones’

Of the 25,000 different proteins in the human body, insulin, antibodies, and collagen are among the few that perform their biological jobs by literally folding into 3D shapes.

With Discovery, Oxygen's Role in Growth of Tumors Reconsidered

Yale researchers have made a discovery that changes conventional thinking about the role that oxygen plays in the growth of tumors—an area of cancer research that has been intensely studied in recent years.

Inflammation may explain antidepressants’ link to preterm birth

Antidepressants can increase the risk of preterm birth, but it’s unclear why. A new Yale study shows inflammation may play a key role.

AI to Be Used to Develop Nuclear Fusion Energy

Nuclear fusion scientists have developed a machine learning model to automatically spot and keep track of blobs of plasma that form inside nuclear reactors, paving the way to a better understanding of how plasma behaves.

Animals Dream Too—Here's What We Know

Rats practice running through mazes, cats envision future hunts in their heads—scientists are learning more than ever before about animal dreamers.

Hate Needles? Flu Vaccines Of The Future Could Be Skin Patches Delivered To Your Door

Vaxess, a Cambridge startup with ties to Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, raised $27 million to test its technology in clinical trials after developing the idea for more than a decade.

Fda Advisers Meet On Racial Disparities In Pulse Oximeters

A health worker uses a pulse oximeter to check the oxygen saturation level of another after administering COVID-19 vaccine at a hospital in Gauhati, India, Jan. 21, 2021.

New Plasma Stratification Computer Model Has Manufacturing, Space Science Uses

Manufacturers using plasma processes in semiconductor production and materials processing will have a new tool to avoid undesirable plasma stratifications using a computer striations model developed by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and CFD Research Corp (CFDRC).

NIH-Funded UAH Research Advancing Toward Day When Ultrasonic Therapy Makes Stronger Knees

Low-intensity ultrasound therapies may one day rebuild stronger knees following injury or surgery, thanks to research by Dr. Anu Subramanian at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) that’s being supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Lab Discovery Leads UAH Researchers to A Simple, Cost-Effective Electricity Generator

A bit of laboratory serendipity led University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) researchers to a simple mechanical way to generate electricity to operate electronic devices, says a paper they have published.