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Popular Strategies For Reducing Gasoline Use Aren’t Getting A Chance To Work

UCLA-led study finds world leaders give up on increasing gas taxes and reducing subsidies to producers

Webb Space Telescope Reveals Birth Of Galaxies, How Universe Became Transparent

UCLA astrophysicists shed light on how hydrogen fog burned away after the Big Bang.

Cabbage White Butterflies Utilize Two Gut Enzymes For Maximum Flexibility In Deactivating Mustard Oil Bombs

Depending on the composition of the defensive toxins of their host plants, the insects use two different complementary enzymes for detoxification

Mapping the Communications Hub of the Brain

The thalamus acts as central communications hub for the brain, relaying information from the senses and other brain parts.

More Flexible Than Previously Thought: Worms Give Us New Insights Into The Evolution And Diversification Of TGF-b Signaling Pathways

The TGF-ß cellular signaling network, essential to various functions in all metazoans and also involved in many severe human pathologies like autoimmune diseases and cancer, is more flexible than previously thought.

Nematode Teeth Consist Of Chitin

Genetically modified worms may make us rethink invertebrate evolution

Agriculture Makes The Weed

How intensive agriculture turned a wild plant into a pervasive weed

500 Million Year-Old Fossils Reveal Answer To Evolutionary Riddle

An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils discovered in eastern Yunnan Province, China, has enabled scientists to solve a centuries-old riddle in the evolution of life on earth, revealing what the first animals to make skeletons looked like.

A Better Understanding Of How HIV-1 Evades The Immune System

The type of virus used as a model to study the efficacy of non-neutralizing antibodies against the virus responsible for AIDS has a crucial role to play, according to a new study led by Andrés Finzi, Université de Montréal professor and researcher at the CHUM Research Centre.

Incurable Neurodegenerative Myelin Diseases: A Hopeful Advance

There’s new hope for the future treatment of some leukodystrophies, neurodegenerative diseases in young children that progressively affect their quality of life, often leading to death before adulthood.

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.

Flip Those Tertiary Centers

Here’s another paper with a reaction that would have looked like magic to me back when I first learned organic synthesis. The Wendtland group at MIT details a way to change tertiary carbon stereochemistries, flipping them/scrambling them through the use of a photochemical decatungstate-catalyzed radical reaction.

Who Is Working to End the Threat of AI-Generated Deepfakes, and Why Is It So Difficult?

Like many of the world’s best and worst ideas, MIT researchers’ plan to combat AI-generated deepfakes was hatched when one of their number watched their favorite not-news news show.

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.

Ingestible Sensor Could Help People With HIV Stick To Medication Regimen, UCLA-Led Study Finds

For people living with HIV, sticking to a prescribed medication regimen is a critical part of staying healthy.

Scientists Say Eye-Disease Drug May Also Help Fight COVID

An interdisciplinary research team led by UCLA found that a drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration for eye disease, verteporfin, stopped the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.