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Released: 20-Jul-2023 8:40 AM EDT
Future AI algorithms have potential to learn like humans, say researchers
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Memories can be as tricky to hold onto for machines as they can be for humans.

Released: 19-Jul-2023 11:30 AM EDT
Tracing maternal behavior to brain immune function
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Immune system changes in the pregnant body that protect the fetus appear to extend to the brain, where a decrease in immune cells late in gestation may factor into the onset of maternal behavior, new research in rats suggests.

   
Released: 17-Jul-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Astronomers Discover Striking Evidence of ‘Unusual’ Stellar Evolution
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Astronomers have found evidence that some stars boast unexpectedly strong surface magnetic fields, a discovery that challenges current models of how they evolve.

Released: 17-Jul-2023 8:30 AM EDT
In Florida, endangered coral finds a way to blossom
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In a new study, researchers have found that the restoration efforts of the critically endangered species elkhorn coral depend largely on the animal’s location, microbiome, and the right conditions to provide an abundance of food.

Released: 11-Jul-2023 2:20 PM EDT
How an essential class of proteins can access blocked genes
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New research shows how one transcription factor functions as a special “pioneer factor” by managing to bind to a blocked segment of DNA to begin the process of opening up and activating a gene.

   
Released: 6-Jul-2023 10:35 AM EDT
Testing real driverless cars in a virtual environment
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Researchers have developed new software to aid in the development, evaluation and demonstration of safer autonomous, or driverless, vehicles. Called the Vehicle-in-Virtual-Environment (VVE) method, it allows the testing of driverless cars in a perfectly safe environment.

Released: 5-Jul-2023 8:30 AM EDT
Screen time not harmful for academic skills of preschoolers
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Despite the fears of parents, screen time doesn’t appear to have overwhelmingly negative impacts on preschoolers’ development, new research suggests. The study of kids from low-income and minority homes found that the quantity of time in front of the TV, smartphones and tablets was not related to children’s gains in language, literacy and math skills.

Released: 30-Jun-2023 10:50 AM EDT
Label date, not phrasing, drives consumer decisions to toss food
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Up to half of consumers may decide to pour perfectly good milk down the drain based solely on their glance at the date label on the carton, a new study suggests.

Released: 29-Jun-2023 3:05 PM EDT
How the cat nose knows what it’s smelling
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Scientists have found the secret to felines’ finesse at sniffing out food, friends and foes. A complex collection of tightly coiled bony airway structures gets the credit, according to the first detailed analysis of the domestic cat’s nasal airway.

26-Jun-2023 9:15 AM EDT
Sicker Americans are sticking with Medicare managed care plans
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Following decades of criticism for “cherry-picking” the healthiest patients, Medicare managed care plans now appear to be holding onto sicker patients with more complex health needs, new research has found. The study, which appears today (June 26, 2023) in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that older Americans with demanding health needs were not more likely to disenroll from Medicare Advantage, the increasingly popular managed care option for Americans age 65 and over.

Released: 20-Jun-2023 12:05 PM EDT
The meaning behind the Woodstock character in ‘Peanuts’
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The character Woodstock in the Peanuts comic strip could be seen as Charles Schulz's attempt to represent the young people of the time in a positive and affirming way.

Released: 12-Jun-2023 11:35 AM EDT
Planet orbiting 2 stars discovered using new technique
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An international team of astronomers is the first to apply an old technique to discover a new type of planet that orbits two stars – what is known as a circumbinary planet.

Released: 6-Jun-2023 7:45 AM EDT
A lung injury therapy derived from adult skin cells
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Therapeutic nanocarriers engineered from adult skin cells can curb inflammation and tissue injury in damaged mouse lungs, new research shows, hinting at the promise of a treatment for lungs severely injured by infection or trauma.

Released: 1-Jun-2023 4:55 PM EDT
Eye drops slow nearsightedness progression in kids, study finds
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The results of a new clinical trial suggest that the first drug therapy to slow the progression of nearsightedness in kids could be on the horizon.

Released: 30-May-2023 12:50 PM EDT
Using AI to create better, more potent medicines
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While it can take years for the pharmaceutical industry to create medicines capable of treating or curing human disease, a new study suggests that using generative artificial intelligence could vastly accelerate the drug-development process.

Released: 25-May-2023 8:00 AM EDT
Your thoughts can harm your neck and back during lifting tasks
Ohio State University

The mental distress of cognitive dissonance – encountering information that conflicts with how we act or what we believe – can lead to added pressure on the neck and low back during lifting and lowering tasks, new research suggests.

Released: 23-May-2023 9:00 AM EDT
Researchers want to use ‘biochar’ to combat climate change
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A new review of research suggests that the nature-based technology biochar – a carbon-rich material – could be an important tool to use in agriculture to help mitigate climate change.

Released: 22-May-2023 11:30 AM EDT
Identifying the bee’s knees of bumble bee diets
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A new study has identified the bee’s knees of bumble bee dietary options in Ohio and the Upper Midwest. Researchers found these bees don’t settle for the most abundant flowers in their foraging area – suggesting they have more discerning dietary preferences than one might expect.

Released: 17-May-2023 7:45 AM EDT
Evidence of ‘pandemic brain’ in college students
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Decision-making capabilities of college students – including some graduating this spring – were likely negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, new research suggests.

   
Released: 10-May-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Ohio State professor elected to National Academy of Sciences
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An Ohio State University astronomy professor has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a scientist can receive in the U.S.

Released: 10-May-2023 8:00 AM EDT
Why buses can’t get wheelchair users to most areas of cities
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Imagine you could travel to only 1% of the city where you live – areas that were easily accessible to other residents. That’s the situation for manual wheelchair users traveling by public buses in Columbus, a first-of-its-kind study finds.

Released: 9-May-2023 8:00 AM EDT
A new theory of what drives partisan conflict and hostility
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Partisan conflict can be largely explained as differing views on two crucial tasks of society, according to a new theory developed by a pair of prominent social scientists.In a new article, Roy Baumeister and Brad Bushman say societies flourish by both amassing and distributing resources.

Released: 8-May-2023 2:30 PM EDT
Galactic bubbles are more complex than imagined, researchers say
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Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and below the Milky Way galaxy’s center.

Released: 5-May-2023 10:35 AM EDT
This algorithm can make satellite signals act like GPS
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Researchers have developed an algorithm that can “eavesdrop” on any signal from a satellite and use it to locate any point on Earth, much like GPS.

Released: 2-May-2023 8:00 AM EDT
Behavior Patterns of People Who Achieve Clinically Significant Weight Loss
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A new study analyzing data on over 20,000 U.S. adults links a healthier diet and increased exercise to weight loss that reduces heart disease risk – while associating skipping meals and taking prescription diet pills with minimal weight loss, weight maintenance or weight gain.

   
28-Apr-2023 8:00 AM EDT
6% of nations provide for citizens in just, sustainable manner
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Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed a framework for quantifying how well countries around the world are doing at providing adequate food, energy and water to their citizens without exceeding nature’s capacity to meet those needs.

27-Apr-2023 9:00 AM EDT
Why people include themselves in photos
Ohio State University

A new study may help explain why people choose to include themselves in some photos – and it is not vanity.

Released: 24-Apr-2023 6:05 PM EDT
No need to load up on extracurricular activities, study finds
Ohio State University

While some ambitious high school students may load up on extracurricular activities to help them get into college, a new study suggests they may be trying too hard.

Released: 20-Apr-2023 10:05 AM EDT
Fungal genetics could help develop novel biotechnologies
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An essential pillar of Earth’s ecological system, fungi have long been used to better the lives of humans. While these organisms are still vastly understudied, a new review paper suggests that their unique genomes could be used to make progress in the biotech industry.

Released: 19-Apr-2023 10:25 AM EDT
A once-stable glacier in Greenland is now rapidly disappearing
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As climate change causes ocean temperatures to rise, one of Greenland’s previously most stable glaciers is now retreating at an unprecedented rate, according to a new study.

Released: 18-Apr-2023 2:00 PM EDT
When both mom and dad maltreat their child
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About one in five cases of child abuse and neglect is committed by both mothers and fathers, but nearly all the research attention has been focused on when just one parent is involved. A new study that aimed to shine a light on risk factors for mistreatment coming from both parents found some surprising results.

Released: 18-Apr-2023 8:00 AM EDT
Keys to women’s resilience after 80: more education, less stress
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Having a four-year college degree and a low level of stress are strongly linked to psychological resilience in American women aged 80 and older, a new study suggests.

   
Released: 17-Apr-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Leaps in artificial blood research aim to improve product safety, efficacy
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Researchers have made huge strides in ensuring that red blood cell substitutes – or artificial blood – are able to work safely and effectively when transfused into the bloodstream.

Released: 10-Apr-2023 2:30 PM EDT
Light pollution may extend mosquitoes’ biting season
Ohio State University

A new study’s finding that urban light pollution may disrupt the winter dormancy period for mosquitoes that transmit West Nile virus could be considered both good news and bad news: The disease-carrying pests may not survive the winter, or their dormancy period may simply be delayed.

   
Released: 10-Apr-2023 1:30 PM EDT
Newly revealed properties of melanin ‘ingredient’ could advance bioelectronics
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After nearly a century of scientific inquiry, scientists have at last been able to characterize a key component in the substance responsible for giving countless living organisms their color.

Released: 6-Apr-2023 1:20 PM EDT
Optimizing sepsis treatment timing with a machine learning model
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A new machine learning model that estimates optimal treatment timing for sepsis could pave the way for support tools that help physicians personalize treatment decisions at the patient bedside, researchers say.

   
Released: 4-Apr-2023 4:15 PM EDT
Brain injury toolkit helps support domestic violence survivors
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A new approach to trauma-informed care developed by domestic violence survivor advocates and researchers at The Ohio State University has been found to improve support organizations’ care for survivors by better recognizing brain injury and addressing its often long-lasting repercussions. CARE is the first trauma-informed approach that considers brain injury in the complex set of circumstances to be addressed and accommodated in order for domestic violence survivors to access safety, health and social services. It was created in response to 2019 work by Ohio State researchers and the Ohio Domestic Violence Network that found 8 in 10 survivors seeking help have suffered head injuries and strangulation by their abusers.

Released: 30-Mar-2023 8:00 AM EDT
Machine learning models rank predictive risks for Alzheimer’s disease
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Once adults reach age 65, the threshold age for the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, the extent of their genetic risk may outweigh age as a predictor of whether they will develop the fatal brain disorder, a new study suggests.

Released: 29-Mar-2023 1:15 PM EDT
How cosmic winds transform galactic environments
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Much like how wind plays a key role in life on Earth by sweeping seeds, pollen and more from one place to another, galactic winds – high-powered streams of charged particles and gases – can change the chemical make-up of the host galaxies they form in, simply by blowing in a specific direction.

Released: 23-Mar-2023 9:50 AM EDT
Housing plays key role in disaster preparedness
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Researchers focus a lot of attention on how disasters such as hurricanes and floods affect people’s housing in the United States. But a new national study found that housing is also important before disasters happen: People with homes not meeting federal quality classifications and those who are housing insecure tend to be less prepared to face natural calamities.

Released: 21-Mar-2023 8:00 AM EDT
Forest growing season in eastern U.S. has increased by a month
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The growing period of hardwood forests in eastern North America has increased by an average of one month over the past century as temperatures have steadily risen, a new study has found.

Released: 17-Mar-2023 10:35 AM EDT
First wearable health sensor for monitoring muscle atrophy
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Researchers at The Ohio State University have fabricated the first wearable sensor designed to detect and monitor muscle atrophy.

   
Released: 15-Mar-2023 12:00 PM EDT
How moms and dads view each other as co-parents affects kids
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How mothers and fathers see each other as co-parents of their children plays a key role in how well-adjusted their kids become, a new study suggests.

Released: 10-Mar-2023 3:00 PM EST
Looking for risky viruses now to get ahead of future pandemics
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Rather than let the next outbreak take the world by surprise, two virologists say in a Science Perspective article published today (March 10, 2023) that the scientific community should invest in a four-part research framework to proactively identify animal viruses that might infect humans.

   
Released: 9-Mar-2023 9:45 AM EST
Nearby food stores affect results after weight-loss surgery
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An analysis of data from hundreds of bariatric surgery patients in central Ohio showed an association between close proximity to food stores and better weight loss two years after the surgery.

Released: 7-Mar-2023 4:10 PM EST
Unconventional spellings are a ‘Badd Choyce’ for brand names
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While marketers seem to love creating new brand names by deliberately misspelling real words, a new study shows that consumers almost never like this tactic. In a series of studies, researchers found that consumers respond less positively in a variety of ways to new products when their brand names use unconventional spellings of real words, like “Klear” instead of “Clear.”

   
Released: 6-Mar-2023 12:00 PM EST
Depression linked to deadly inflammation in lung cancer patients
Ohio State University

Lung cancer patients with moderate to severe depression are 2 to 3 times more likely to have inflammation levels that predict poor survival rates, a new study found. The results may help explain why a substantial portion of lung cancer patients fail to respond to new immunotherapy and targeted treatments that have led to significantly longer survival for many people with the disease.



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