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Newswise: Cheers! NASA’s Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds
Released: 13-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Cheers! NASA’s Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

A new Webb study of two protostars, so young that they have not yet formed planets, has found a variety of molecules ranging from relatively simple ones like methane to complex compounds like acetic acid (familiar to cooks as an ingredient in vinegar). These molecules constitute key ingredients for worlds that might one day host life.

Newswise: “Anti-Choke Mug” – Chula Innovation for Neuro Patients to Drink Water Confidently
Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:55 AM EDT
“Anti-Choke Mug” – Chula Innovation for Neuro Patients to Drink Water Confidently
Chulalongkorn University

Chula Medicine has designed an anti-choke mug with calculated angle, amount, and time of water flow from the mug to the patient’s lips hoping to reduce choking that may lead to lung infection, bring peace of mind to caregivers, and make it safer for patients who will have a better quality of life.

Newswise: SMU Chemist and Colleagues Develop Machine Learning Model for Atomic-level Interactions
Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:30 AM EDT
SMU Chemist and Colleagues Develop Machine Learning Model for Atomic-level Interactions
Southern Methodist University

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIP)s have become an efficient and less expensive alternative to traditional quantum chemical simulations.

Newswise: Teachers from across US invited to teach, live and play in West Virginia
Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:30 AM EDT
Teachers from across US invited to teach, live and play in West Virginia
West Virginia University

Teachers Ascend into West Virginia, a first-of-its-kind national program based at West Virginia University and designed to attract teachers to the Mountain State, is now accepting applications.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:20 AM EDT
Upcoming Solar Eclipse—Mount Sinai Ophthalmologists Warn About Dangers of Looking Directly at the Sun
Mount Sinai Health System

Warning follows Mount Sinai’s landmark eye damage case linked to the 2017 eclipse

Newswise: High Resolution Imagery Advances the Ability to Monitor Decadal Changes in Emperor Penguin Populations
Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
High Resolution Imagery Advances the Ability to Monitor Decadal Changes in Emperor Penguin Populations
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

High resolution satellite imagery and field-based validation surveys have provided the first multi-year time series documenting emperor penguin populations.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Exotic molecules embedded into continuum refuse to break apart, defying initial expectations
Bar-Ilan University

Researchers have unveiled the extraordinary behavior of weakly-bound three-atomic molecules, defying conventional understanding of quantum mechanics.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:00 AM EDT
Acclaimed Clinical Geneticist Dr. Bruce Korf Honored with 2024 David L. Rimoin Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Genetics from the ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine
American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG)

Renowned clinical geneticist Bruce Korf, MD, PhD, FACMG, has been named the recipient of the 2024 ACMG Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine's David L. Rimoin Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Genetics.

12-Mar-2024 5:00 PM EDT
AANA Emphasizes the Importance of Screenings and Safe Anesthesia Care for Colon Health During Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology

Of the various types of cancer screenings and procedures, colonoscopies are among the most effective in preventing cancer.

Newswise: You don’t need glue to hold these materials together — just electricity
8-Mar-2024 8:00 AM EST
You don’t need glue to hold these materials together — just electricity
American Chemical Society (ACS)

A study in ACS Central Science shows that applying voltage to certain objects forms chemical bonds linking the objects together. Reversing the direction of electron flow separates the materials. This could help create biohybrid robots, improve biomedical implants and enable new battery technologies.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Recreational activities such as golfing, gardening may be associated with increased ALS risk among men
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Participation in recreational activities — including golfing, gardening or yard work, woodworking and hunting — may be associated with an increase in a person’s risk for developing ALS.

Newswise: Bristol leaps ahead in record £1 billion UK investment to train next generation of leaders to tackle major global challenges
Released: 13-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Bristol leaps ahead in record £1 billion UK investment to train next generation of leaders to tackle major global challenges
University of Bristol

Hundreds of talented scientists and engineers are set to advance solutions for some of the world’s most pressing challenges, ranging from reaching net-zero and developing sustainable energy to improving digital security and making the latest health breakthroughs.

Newswise: Sonic Youth: Healthy Reef Sounds Increase Coral Settlement
Released: 13-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Sonic Youth: Healthy Reef Sounds Increase Coral Settlement
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Researchers at WHOI demonstrated that replaying healthy reef sounds could potentially be used to encourage coral larvae to recolonize damaged or degraded reefs.

13-Mar-2024 6:05 AM EDT
APOLLO researchers uncover new target for ovarian cancer treatment
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU)

Scientists have identified a new target in ovarian cancer that is particularly vulnerable to chemotherapy. The discovery will allow researchers to better predict how this cancer will behave, particularly the most common and lethal, high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC). Ovarian cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among women.

Newswise: Renowned Professor Jean Salençon Explores Collaborative Opportunities at CityU HKIAS
Released: 13-Mar-2024 4:05 AM EDT
Renowned Professor Jean Salençon Explores Collaborative Opportunities at CityU HKIAS
Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study (HKIAS) hosted our Senior Fellow Professor Jean Salençon from 29th February to 20th March 2024. This visit brought together professors from various departments at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) for meaningful discussions and potential collaborations.

Newswise: Exploring the Transferability of Extracytoplasmic Function Switches Across Bacterial Species
Released: 13-Mar-2024 4:05 AM EDT
Exploring the Transferability of Extracytoplasmic Function Switches Across Bacterial Species
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Extracytoplasmic function sigma factors (ECFs) have been successfully used for constructing predictable artificial gene circuits bacteria like Escherichia coli, but their transferability between species within the same phylum remained unknown.

8-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EST
Do Veterans Who Experience Concussions Have an Increased Risk of Alzheimer’s?
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

Middle-age veterans who experienced concussions due to blasts from explosive devices may have biomarkers in their spinal fluid similar to people who develop Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study published in the March 13, 2024, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Newswise: Drought, Soil Desiccation Cracking, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Overlooked Feedback Loop Exacerbating Climate Change
Released: 13-Mar-2024 12:05 AM EDT
Drought, Soil Desiccation Cracking, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Overlooked Feedback Loop Exacerbating Climate Change
Tufts University

Soil stores 80 percent of carbon on earth, yet with increasing cycles of drought, that crucial reservoir is cracking and breaking down, releasing even more greenhouse gases creating an amplified feedback loop that could accelerate climate change.

12-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
CDC Sharply Overestimates Maternal Death Rate, New Study Finds
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Researchers from Rutgers Health and other institutions dispute claims that the maternal death rate in the United States has climbed steeply in the past two decades.

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11-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT
Uncovering why more Black women than ever are being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Women are more likely than men to get diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), an incurable disease that affects the central nervous system.

Newswise: Developing a stem cell therapy to prevent amputations from critical limb ischemia
Released: 13-Mar-2024 12:00 AM EDT
Developing a stem cell therapy to prevent amputations from critical limb ischemia
National Research Council of Science and Technology

A research team led by Dr. Sangheon Kim of the Center for Biomaterials Research at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that they have developed a three-dimensional stem cell therapy to treat critical limb ischemia through a self-assembling platform technology using a new material microgel.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 10:05 PM EDT
Staying in the Loop: How Superconductors Are Helping Computers “Remember”
University of California San Diego

To advance neuromorphic computing, some researchers are looking at analog improvements--advancing not just software, but hardware too. Research from the UC San Diego and UC Riverside shows a promising new way to store and transmit information using disordered superconducting loops.

Newswise: Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heatwave, study finds
11-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heatwave, study finds
University of Bristol

The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers at the University of Bristol and Stellenbosch University in South Africa have found.

Newswise: Who knew that eating poo was so vital for birds’ survival?
Released: 12-Mar-2024 6:05 PM EDT
Who knew that eating poo was so vital for birds’ survival?
University of South Australia

New research led by the University of South Australia explains how eating faeces (known as coprophagy) shapes wild birds’ digestive tracts (gut biota), enabling them to absorb lost or deficient nutrients and adjust to seasonal variations in food sources.

Newswise: Numbers do not add up for maths homework
10-Mar-2024 10:05 PM EDT
Numbers do not add up for maths homework
University of South Australia

Supporting kids with maths homework is a common afterschool activity. But beyond the basics, new curricula and teaching strategies are making it harder for parents to help and it’s taking a serious toll on children’s confidence and learning.

Newswise: How Much Dam Water is Needed for Fish and Energy?
Released: 12-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
How Much Dam Water is Needed for Fish and Energy?
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

New research identifies the most important factors in successful fish passage, pointing toward new options for flexible dam operations.

Newswise: Two New CZI Awards Power Studies of Metabolism and Intergenerational Memory
Released: 12-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Two New CZI Awards Power Studies of Metabolism and Intergenerational Memory
University of Utah Health

$2 million in total funds will accelerate interdisciplinary neurobiology research and scale up a search for new rules of human biochemistry.

   
Newswise: Journey to Health Brings Nutrition Education to All
Released: 12-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Journey to Health Brings Nutrition Education to All
University of Utah Health

Participants in the program saw improved blood pressure, BMI, and triglycerides.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Mayo Clinic Platform launches Solutions Studio
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic Platform launches Solutions Studio, a new program that accelerates the development, validation and deployment of digital health solutions and integrates them into healthcare workflows.

Newswise: Experts Available to Discuss Implications of Study Showing Microplastics in Carotid Artery Contributing to Stroke and Heart Attack Risk
Released: 12-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Experts Available to Discuss Implications of Study Showing Microplastics in Carotid Artery Contributing to Stroke and Heart Attack Risk
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health experts can address concerns of recent study that found some patients with carotid stenosis have evidence of micoscopic particles from environmental plastics in their atherosclerotic plaque.

Newswise:Video Embedded colorectal-cancer-not-an-old-people-s-disease-anymore
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Released: 12-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Colorectal cancer ‘not an old people’s disease anymore’
University of Washington School of Medicine

Dr. Issaka’s comments follow the January release of the American Cancer Society’s Cancer statistical report for 2024. Among people under 50 in the U.S., the report said, colorectal cancer is currently the No. 1 cause of cancer death among men and the No. 2 cause of death among women.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 2:00 PM EDT
How we remember
University of Pittsburgh

In two experiments, Temple and Pitt researchers asked participants to repeatedly study pairs of items and scenes that were either identical on each repetition or in which the item stayed the same but the scene changed each time.

Newswise: SLAS Announces $100,000 Graduate Education Fellowship Grant Awarded to Lan Mi of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Released: 12-Mar-2024 2:00 PM EDT
SLAS Announces $100,000 Graduate Education Fellowship Grant Awarded to Lan Mi of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
SLAS

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is pleased to announce Lan Mi, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Released: 12-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Pediatric Cancer Expert Explains New Options for Children with Sarcomas
Cedars-Sinai

Leo Mascarenhas, MD, MS, has an important message for parents whose children have been diagnosed with sarcoma, a type of cancer that develops in the bones or soft tissues.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
In the Resuscitation Discussion, Do Words Matter Between Doctors and Patients?
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Adults 65 and older, who were hospitalized for a variety of medical conditions, had highly satisfying conversations about whether they wanted CPR, regardless of whether doctors used the terms “allow a natural death” or “do not resuscitate” for indicating no CPR, according to a pilot study by Rutgers Health researchers. The study, which found 83 percent wished to be resuscitated, is the first to report on the resuscitation preferences for general inpatients older than age 65.

Newswise: PPPL unveils new laboratory space to advance quantum information science
Released: 12-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
PPPL unveils new laboratory space to advance quantum information science
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

On March 11, PPPL opened its new Quantum Diamond Lab, a space devoted to studying and refining the processes involved in using plasma, the electrically charged fourth state of matter, to create high-quality diamond material for quantum information science applications.

Newswise: Charging Up the Commute
Released: 12-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Charging Up the Commute
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team of researchers at ORNL demonstrated that a light-duty passenger electric vehicle can be wirelessly charged at 100-kW with 96% efficiency using polyphase electromagnetic coupling coils with rotating magnetic fields.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Lower-Class Background Contributes to Imposter Syndrome in Academia: New Study
American Sociological Association (ASA)

New sociological research looks into the relationship between a lower-class background and the experience of imposter syndrome in academia, examining it as something borne of sociological processes as opposed to how it is typically understood—as the result of individual shortcomings.

 
Newswise: Condor Telescope Reveals a New World for Astrophysicists
Released: 12-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Condor Telescope Reveals a New World for Astrophysicists
Stony Brook University

A new telescope called the “Condor Array Telescope” may open up a new world of the very-low-brightness Universe for astrophysicists.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
UC Irvine study: vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., March 12, 2024 — Scientists know relatively little about particles released into the air when a vehicle driver brakes, though evidence suggests those particles may be more harmful to health than particles exiting the tailpipe.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Don’t Get Burned: Retina Specialists Share Eclipse Safety Tips
American Society of Retina Specialists

On April 8, 2024, 40 million people across the United States, Canada, and Mexico will have the opportunity to experience a true celestial spectacle, a rare total solar eclipse as the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, blocking daylight for several minutes.

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Released: 12-Mar-2024 11:45 AM EDT
JMIR Dermatology Invites Submissions on Diversity in Dermatology
JMIR Publications

JMIR Publications is pleased to announce a new theme issue titled “Diversity in Dermatology” in JMIR Dermatology. The premier, peer-reviewed journal is indexed in Sherpa Romeo, Scopus, DOAJ, CABI, and PubMed Central/PubMed and is the official journal of the International Society of Digital Health in Dermatology (ISDHD).

Newswise: More than flying cars: eVTOL battery analysis reveals unique operating demands
Released: 12-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
More than flying cars: eVTOL battery analysis reveals unique operating demands
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are taking cleaner transportation to the skies by creating and evaluating new batteries for airborne electric vehicles that take off and land vertically.

Newswise: Mercy Expands Primary & Specialty Care Network with New Community Physician site in Ellicott City
Released: 12-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Mercy Expands Primary & Specialty Care Network with New Community Physician site in Ellicott City
Mercy Medical Center

As part of Mercy Health Services’ ongoing efforts to expand the reach of the 149-year Sisters of Mercy tradition of quality health care, Mercy has officially opened Mercy Personal Physicians at Ellicott City.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Mind-wandering increases over time while completing a task
University of Miami

A new University of Miami study shows that a person’s ability to sustain their attention while performing a task decreases over time.

Newswise: Filamentos estelares fantasmales capturados con la imagen de DECam más grande jamás publicada
Released: 12-Mar-2024 11:00 AM EDT
Filamentos estelares fantasmales capturados con la imagen de DECam más grande jamás publicada
NSF's NOIRLab

Con la poderosa Cámara de Energía Oscura (DECam por sus siglas en inglés) de 570 megapíxeles, fabricada por el Departamento de Energía de Estados Unidos, los astrónomos han construido una imagen gigante de 1,3 gigapíxeles que muestra la parte central del remanente de Supernova Vela, un cadáver cósmico de una gigantesca estrella que explotó como una supernova. DECam es uno de los instrumentos de imágenes de campo amplio más productivos del mundo y está montada en el Telescopio de 4 metros Víctor M. Blanco de la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias de EE.UU en el Observatorio Interamericano Cerro Tololo en Chile, un Programa de NOIRLab de NSF.



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