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Archaeogenetics: Five Global Ethical Principles

Scientists from all over the world have published guidelines for how human remains should be handled

Brief Admissions By Self-Referral Can Help Adolescents With Self-Harming Or Suicidal Behaviour

Gaining access to Brief Admission by self-referral reduced the need for emergency care in adolescents with severe self-harm.

New Method Heals Skeletal Injuries With Synthetic Bone

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in collaboration with colleagues in Dresden, Germany, have developed a way of combining a bone substitute and drugs to regenerate bone and heal severe fractures in the thigh or shin bone.

Food for Thought: Uh Study Highlights the Role of Clean Technology in Reducing Food Waste

Foodservice companies have long struggled with the challenge of what to do with all of their food waste. But researchers at the University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Global Hospitality Leadership are shedding light on how clean technology can help those companies reduce waste and establish long-term sustainability goals.

Making It Through A Pandemic Senior Year With Curiosity And Community

Miles Johnson ’21, a recent graduate in mathematics and EECS, employed a strong dorm network and personal interests including rock climbing and jazz to complete a rich MIT experience.

Prehistoric Humans Rarely Mated with Their Cousins

Scientists screened 1,785 ancient humans genomes from the last 45,000 years for parental relatedness

Climate-Friendly Air Conditioning Inspired By Termites

The climate control used by termites in their mounds could inspire tomorrow’s climate-smart buildings

Discovery Slows Down Muscular Dystrophy

UH Researchers Target Protein That Can Slow Disease Progression, Improve Muscle Function

Stem Cells Unraveled: We're One Step Closer To Making Organs In A Dish

STEM CELLS Using a mouse model, researchers from the University of Copenhagen deciphered an alternative route that certain cells take to make organs and used that knowledge to exploit a new type of stem cells as a potential source of organs in a dish.

“Magic-Angle” Trilayer Graphene May Be A Rare, Magnet-Proof Superconductor

New findings might help inform the design of more powerful MRI machines or robust quantum computers.

Central European Prehistory Was Highly Dynamic

Frequent cultural, genetic, and social change epitomises the history of central Europe from the Stone Age to the Early Bronze Age

Oldest Genome from Wallacea Shows Previously Unknown Ancient Human Relations

International research team isolates DNA from modern human buried 7,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

Shedding Light on Past Human Histories

Research team reconstructs genetic histories and social organisation in Neolithic and Bronze Age Croatia

Alarming Antibiotic Resistance Discovered In War-Torn Ukraine

Researchers led by Lund University in Sweden have assisted microbiologists in Ukraine in investigating bacterial resistance among the war-wounded patients treated in hospitals.

Cutting Edge Transistors For Semiconductors Of The Future

Transistors that can change properties are important elements in the development of tomorrow’s semiconductors.

Your Alcohol Consumption Could Put Your Liver In Danger – But This Tool Warns You

LIVER DAMAGE Two or three drinks every day could put your liver in danger. Led by University of Copenhagen, researchers now present a revolutionizing tool to predict whether an individual has alcohol-related liver disease and if the disease progresses in the individual patient.

Brain’s “Memory Center” Is Needed To Recognize Image Sequences, But Not Single Sights

The visual cortex stores and remembers individual images, but mice can’t recognize image sequences without guidance from the hippocampus.

A New Approach To Preventing Human-Induced Earthquakes

Applied in the field, a new model reduced quakes from oil and gas processes; could help manage seismic events from carbon sequestration.

Researchers Identify Ancient Bird Behind Giant Eggs From Down Under

BIRD SPECIES A years-long research debate over which animal is the rightful mother of giant prehistoric eggs in Australia has been resolved. In a new study, University of Copenhagen researchers and their international colleagues demonstrated that they can only belong to the last of a unique duck-like line of megafauna known as the 'Demon Ducks of Doom'.

Mapping The Cellular Circuits Behind Spitting

Roundworms change the flow of material in and out of their mouths in response to bright light, revealing a new way for neurons to control muscle cells.