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Modern Humans Arrived In Southeast Asia 40,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought

ANCIENT MIGRATION An international research team jointly lead by Globe Institute show one of the earliest modern humans migrations out of Africa. The study is published in Nature Communications.

Researchers Advance 3D Printing to Aid Tissue Replacement

Professor Arda Gozen looks to a future someday in which doctors can hit a button to print out a scaffold on their 3D printers and create custom-made replacement skin, cartilage, or other tissue for their patients.

A Dog’s Breed Can Affect Pain Sensitivity, But Not Necessarily The Way Your Vet May Think

Dog breeds differ in pain sensitivity, but these differences don’t always match up with the beliefs people – including veterinarians – hold about breed-specific pain sensitivity.

Physicists Discover A New Switch For Superconductivity

The results could help turn up unconventional superconducting materials.

Researchers Find How Tiny Plastics Slip Through the Environment

Washington State University researchers have shown the fundamental mechanisms that allow tiny pieces of plastic bags and foam packaging at the nanoscale to move through the environment.

New Tool Predicts Crop Yields in the Southeast

Researchers have developed a computer model that forecasts yield for four key crops in the southeastern United States: cotton, corn, sorghum, and soybeans.

Memory Killer Cells Could Help Improve Survival For Melanoma Patients

THE SKIN Our skin contains specialised long-lived killer cells that can protect against intruders or cause inflammatory skin diseases. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have now identified how these cells are formed and shown that people with better survival in melanoma have high levels of such memory killer cells in cancer tissue.

Slow Walking Could Be Sign of Dementia in Older Dogs

Dogs who slow down physically also slow down mentally, according to a new study from North Carolina State University.

Lab-Made Hexagonal Diamonds Stiffer Than Natural Diamonds

Nature’s strongest material now has some stiff competition.

Without A Key Extracellular Protein, Neuronal Axons Break And Synaptic Connections Fall Apart

Scientists find a protein common to flies and people is essential for supporting the structure of axons that neurons project to make circuit connections.

WSU Graduate Recognized as Time100 Next Innovator

A breakthrough in superconductivity has landed a WSU grad in the latest Time Magazine list of top innovators.

MIT Engineers Build A Battery-Free, Wireless Underwater Camera

The device could help scientists explore unknown regions of the ocean, track pollution, or monitor the effects of climate change.

Why Do Some People Live To Be A 100? Intestinal Bacteria May Hold The Answer

GUT Some people live longer than others – possibly due to a unique combination of bacteria in their intestines, new research from the University of Copenhagen concludes.

Rapid Evolution May Help Species Adapt to Climate Change and Competition

Loss of biodiversity in the face of climate change is a growing worldwide concern.

4 Species Of Limu Receive Hawaiian Names

In the year of the limu (edible water plant), four new species of Hawaiian red algae discovered in different areas across the Hawaiian Islands have been named and scientifically described by a team of international scientists, led by experts from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Rat Lungworm Transmitted By Many More Species Than Slugs, Snails

While many people know that rat lungworm disease can be spread to humans by slugs and snails, new research shows those creatures are not the only ones that have been transmitting the illness.

Which People Are Most Likely To Get Vaccinated For COVID-19?

With updated COVID-19 boosters being recommended to provide increased protection against the circulating omicron variant, a new paper by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Waiʻanae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC) researchers is shedding light on who is getting booster shots in Hawaiʻi, and how trust and consumption of different information sources affect that decision.

Over Half Of Known Human Pathogenic Diseases Can Be Aggravated By Greenhouse Gas Emissions

More than half of known human pathogenic diseases such as dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria, Zika and more, can be aggravated by climate change.

Waimea Valley ‘Bioblitz’ Unlocks Microbial, Environmental Understanding

The keys to saving endangered species and improving the ecology of our communities may be found in thousands of microbiomes and microbes examined by researchers from the ocean to the summit of the Waimea Valley watershed on Oʻahu.

UH Astronomers Produce Catalog To Extensively Map Universe

What does our universe look like at the largest size scales? A team of researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) and Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary has produced a massive new catalog of high-fidelity distance estimates to more than 350 million galaxies, revealing the soap-bubble structure of the universe in detail.