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If Countries Implement Paris Pledges with Cuts to Aerosols, Millions of Lives can be Saved

A strategic approach to reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution can reap major health and temperature benefits, according to new UC San Diego research

Nearly a Hundred Genes Have Been Lost During the Woolly Mammoth’s Evolution

A new study shows that 87 genes have been affected by deletions or short insertions during the course of the mammoth’s evolution.

New Discovery of Panda Species Which May Have Been Europe’s Last

Fossilized teeth originally found in the 1970s in fact belong to a new, sizeable close relative of the modern giant panda

One More Clue to the Moon’s Origin

Researchers from ETH Zurich discover the first definitive proof that the Moon inherited indigenous noble gases from the Earth’s mantle.

Study Finds Evidence That Giant Meteorite Impacts Created the Continents

Dr Tim Johnson, from Curtin’s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the idea that the continents originally formed at sites of giant meteorite impacts had been around for decades, but until now there was little solid evidence to support the theory.

Opioid Overdoses Among Incarcerated People May Be Reduced by Improving Release Process and Treatment Continuity

Many people with opioid use disorder engage with the justice system, making it a critical place to offer evidence-based treatment.

Ditching Cigarettes for Smokeless Tobacco Can Help Cut Cardiovascular Risks, Study Finds

Regular smokers are at heightened risk of developing cardiovascular disease, but crushing the butts in favor of a “smokeless” alternative like chewing tobacco, snuff or tobacco lozenges may go a long way toward bringing the danger down to a more normal level, a new UCLA-led study shows.

Researchers Discover an Unexpected Regulator of Heart Repair

A study using mice by scientists at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA reveals that cardiac muscle cells play a pivotal role in determining how the heart heals following a heart attack.

Notches on Lions’ Teeth Reveal Poaching in Zambia’s Conservation Areas

UCLA study shows the strange markings are the result of trapped big cats chewing through wire snares, indicating these animals are injured at far higher rates than previously assumed

Sweating the Small Stuff: Smartwatch Developed at UCLA Measures Key Stress Hormone

The human body responds to stress, from the everyday to the extreme, by producing a hormone called cortisol.

New Way to Make Microparticles Could Accelerate Drug Development, Production of New Cell Strains

UCLA scientists have devised a method for producing intricately shaped hydrogel microparticles at a rate of more than 40 million per hour — at least 10 times faster than the current standard approach.

UCLA-Led Team Develops New Approach for Building Quantum Computers

Quantum computing, though still in its early days, has the potential to dramatically increase processing power by harnessing the strange behavior of particles at the smallest scales.

Female Monkeys with Female Friends Live Longer

Female white-faced capuchin monkeys living in the tropical dry forests of northwestern Costa Rica may have figured out the secret to a longer life — having fellow females as friends.

A New Method Boosts Wind Farms’ Energy Output, Without New Equipment

By modeling the conditions of an entire wind farm rather than individual turbines, engineers can squeeze more power out of existing installations.

Israeli scientists learn important lessons for drug design from acetylcholinesterase

Enzyme inhibitors are used by pesticides and nerve agents to target acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme that starts the breakdown of an organism's neurotransmission. It is also used in the laboratory to preserve a protein for study by shutting down the organism's nerve impulse transmission.

Scientists Identify a Plant Molecule That Sops Up Iron-Rich Heme

The peptide is used by legumes to control nitrogen-fixing bacteria; it may also offer leads for treating patients with too much heme in their blood.

MIT Scientists Discover New Antiviral Defense System in Bacteria

Prokaryotes can detect hallmark viral proteins and trigger cell death through a process seen across all domains of life.

Measuring the “Woodwork Effect” in Medical Insurance

Study: When adults gain access to Medicaid, they sign up their previously unenrolled kids, too — yet many more remain outside the system.

New Test May Predict COVID-19 Immunity

The paper test measures the level of neutralizing antibodies in a blood sample and could help people decide what protections they should take against infection.

Researchers Create the First Artificial Vision System for Both Land and Water

Inspired by a fiddler crab eye, scientists developed an amphibious artificial vision system with a panoramic visual field.