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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 “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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Study Finds Sulfate Pollution Impacts Texas Gulf Coast Air

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

Study Finds Neighborhood Apps Increase Perceptions of Crime Rates

Media Meant to Inform Can Cause Skewed View of Increased Crime

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Researchers Resolved Human Transcription Factor (TF) Regulation

New study provides the first comprehensive and complimentary overview on the physical and functional interactions of the human transcription factors.

New Disease Mechanism Behind Mitochondrial Diseases Identified

An international team of scientists, led by University of Helsinki, reported the first evidence that “mitophagy” – recycling of damaged mitochondria – leads to human disease.

New Evidence For The Importance Of Educational Attainment In Brain Health

A Finnish twin study suggests that the deteriorative effects of cardiovascular risk factors on late-life cognition are stronger in individuals with lower education compared to those with higher education.

Open Spatial Data Reveals 24-Hour Population Dynamics Of People In Helsinki Metropolitan Area

The researchers of the Digital Geography Lab at the University of Helsinki have published spatial data describing the daily rhythms in the population distribution in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area as open data.