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Drug Slows Clinical Decline Of Patients With Early-Stage Alzheimer’s

An experimental dementia drug slowed clinical decline in people with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease in a phase 3 clinical trial, a new study shows.

Simple Nasal Swab Can Provide Early Warning Of Emerging Viruses

A new Yale-led study finds that testing for a single immune system molecule on nasal swabs can help detect stealthy viruses not identified in standard tests.

COVID-19 Treatment Gaps Highlight Persistent Health Care Challenges

A new analysis of how far Americans have to travel to receive COVID-19 oral treatments like Paxlovid reveals stubborn discrepancies in health care access.

Electrons on the Run

On chirality, tunneling and light fields

New International Research Reveals Majority of Gig Economy Workers Feel Under Threat from Review Websites

As the cost of living crisis worsens, scores of workers in the gig economy globally are grappling with another threat to their hard-earned wages – the double-edged sword of online reviews. New research has exposed how tech companies are compounding the problem, leaving scores of workers in fear of their future income.

The Unintended Consequences of Giving Patients Online Access to Their Health Record

Giving patients online access to their GP health records has unintended consequences that can limit its usefulness, a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) ARC West and University of Bristol Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) study published in the British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) has shown.

Plants Between Light and Darkness

How plants optimize photosynthesis under changing light conditions

Insulation Only Provides Short-Term Reduction In Household Gas Consumption, Study Of UK Housing Suggests

First study to look at long-term effect of insulation finds fall in gas consumption per household was small, with all energy savings disappearing by the fourth year after a retrofit.

Females Perform Better Than Males On A ‘Theory Of Mind’ Test Across 57 Countries

Females, on average, are better than males at putting themselves in others’ shoes and imagining what the other person is thinking or feeling, suggests a new study of over 300,000 people in 57 countries.

Men May Not ‘Perceive’ Domestic Tasks As Needing Doing In The Same Way As Women, Philosophers Argue

By adding a gender dimension to the theory of “affordance perception” and applying it to the home, a new hypothesis may help answer questions of why women still shoulder most housework, and why men never seem to notice.

Paying Farmers To Create Woodland And Wetland Is The Most Cost-Effective Way To Hit UK Environment Targets

Study of farmer preferences shows that turning whole areas of farmland into habitats comes with half the price tag of integrating nature into productive farmland, if biodiversity and carbon targets are to be met.

Technique For Tracking Resistant Cancer Cells Could Lead To New Treatments For Relapsing Breast Cancer Patients

Cambridge scientists have managed to identify and kill those breast cancer cells that evade standard treatments in a study in mice. The approach is a step towards the development of new treatments to prevent relapse in patients.

UH Lab Produces Building Blocks To DNA And RNA In Deep Space

The synthetic production of a critical building block called methanediamine for the first time by researchers in University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Department of Chemistry could lead to key insights into the origins of life. The researchers have discovered a method to produce it in a lab under conditions that mimic icy interstellar nanoparticles in cold molecular clouds in space.

Planet Spiraling To Its Doom Discovered By UH Astronomers

For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet with a decaying orbit around a star that resembles a future version of our Sun. The doomed world is destined to spiral closer and closer to its maturing star until they collide and the planet is obliterated.

Early Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Affects Genes Involved In Embryonic Development

Alcohol exposure in early pregnancy can change gene function during the tightly regulated embryonic development, and consequently cause developmental disorders - especially neurodevelopmental disorders.

Singing Supports Stroke Rehabilitation

Language function and the psychosocial wellbeing of patients and their families can be promoted with singing-based rehabilitation. Group intervention provides opportunities for peer support while being simultaneously cost effective.

Ants Shed Light To Predicting Evolution After Hybridisation

Researchers at the University of Helsinki found that after multiple hybridisation events between two wood ant species distinct hybrid populations evolved independently towards the same direction, suggesting hybridisation is predictable.

Solving Brain Dynamics Gives Rise To Flexible Machine-Learning Models

MIT CSAIL researchers solve a differential equation behind the interaction of two neurons through synapses to unlock a new type of speedy and efficient AI algorithm.

Reimagining Alzheimer’s (Part 6): The Many Effects Of The APOE4 Variant

This article is the sixth installment in my series on Alzheimer’s disease. Read more about Alzheimer’s disease in part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 , and part 5 of the series.

Why Wind Energy Isn’t Living Up to Its Pollution-Preventing Potential

Most of the health benefits from wind farms haven’t reached communities of color and low-income Americans, new research shows.