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Release date: 23-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Penn Medicine researchers receive $2.1 million grant to fund long COVID research
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine has received a $2.1M grant from PolyBio Research Foundation to expand long COVID research. The grant, issued via PolyBio’s Long COVID Research Consortium (LCRC), will support studies to characterize mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 persistence in the gut, including determining the impact of viral reservoirs on gut microbiome ecosystems.

Newswise: An increase in blood-sucking black flies is expected in Germany
Released: 23-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
An increase in blood-sucking black flies is expected in Germany
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Only six millimeters in length, black flies (Simuliidae) may look harmless like house flies, but their bites can be very unpleasant.

   
Newswise: Neurobiology: How bats distinguish different sounds
Released: 23-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Neurobiology: How bats distinguish different sounds
Goethe University Frankfurt

Seba’s short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) lives in the subtropical and tropical forests of Central and South America, where it mostly feeds on pepper fruit

Newswise: Audiology Student Researches Security Vulnerabilities in Hearing Aids
Release date: 23-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Audiology Student Researches Security Vulnerabilities in Hearing Aids
University of Northern Colorado

Student combines her fascination with technology and research to uncover whether hearing aids that use Bluetooth technology can be hacked

Release date: 23-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Super Strong Magnetic Fields Leave Imprint on Nuclear Matter
Brookhaven National Laboratory

A new analysis by the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle collider at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, provides the first direct evidence of the imprint left by what may be the universe’s most powerful magnetic fields on “deconfined” nuclear matter. The evidence comes from measuring the way differently charged particles separate when emerging from collisions of atomic nuclei at this DOE Office of Science user facility.

Newswise: Wistar Scientists Discover Link Between Leaky Gut and 
Accelerated Biological Aging
Release date: 23-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Wistar Scientists Discover Link Between Leaky Gut and Accelerated Biological Aging
Wistar Institute

Wistar Institute’s Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen has demonstrated a connection between viral damage to the gut and premature biological aging.

Newswise: Biomolecular condensates – regulatory hubs for plant iron supply
Released: 23-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Biomolecular condensates – regulatory hubs for plant iron supply
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Iron is a micronutrient for plants. Biologists from the Institute of Botany at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) describe in a study, which has now been published in the Journal of Cell Biology, that regulatory proteins for iron uptake behave particularly dynamically in the cell nucleus when the cells are exposed to blue light – an important signal for plant growth.

Newswise: Barriers against Antarctic ice melt disappearing at the double
Released: 23-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Barriers against Antarctic ice melt disappearing at the double
University of Edinburgh

Undersea anchors of ice that help prevent Antarctica’s land ice from slipping into the ocean are shrinking at more than twice the rate compared with 50 years ago, research shows.

Newswise: U.S. Department of Energy awards Argonne National Laboratory $4 million for energy-efficient microchip research
Release date: 23-Feb-2024 9:05 AM EST
U.S. Department of Energy awards Argonne National Laboratory $4 million for energy-efficient microchip research
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne awarded $4 million to research new materials to develop energy-efficient microchips.

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Newswise: Early-Life Airborne Lead Exposure Associated with Lower IQ and Self-Control in NIH Study
Released: 23-Feb-2024 7:05 AM EST
Early-Life Airborne Lead Exposure Associated with Lower IQ and Self-Control in NIH Study
Duke Clinical Research Institute

Children who lived in areas with higher levels of airborne lead in their first five years of life appeared to have slightly lower IQs and less self-control, with boys showing more sensitivity to lead exposure, according to a new study from the NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program.

   
Newswise: Three years later, search for life on Mars continues
Released: 22-Feb-2024 9:05 PM EST
Three years later, search for life on Mars continues
University of Cincinnati

In the three years since NASA’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars, the NASA science team has made the daily task of investigating the red planet seem almost mundane.

Newswise: Researchers harness 2D magnetic materials for energy-efficient computing
Released: 22-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
Researchers harness 2D magnetic materials for energy-efficient computing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Experimental computer memories and processors built from magnetic materials use far less energy than traditional silicon-based devices.

Newswise: Scientists can tell where a mouse is looking and located based on its neural activity
Released: 22-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
Scientists can tell where a mouse is looking and located based on its neural activity
Cell Press

Researchers have paired a deep learning model with experimental data to “decode” mouse neural activity.

Newswise: ‘Dynamic duo’ defenses in bacteria ward off viral threats
Released: 22-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
‘Dynamic duo’ defenses in bacteria ward off viral threats
University of Southampton

Scientists at the University of Southampton have discovered that bacteria can pair up their defense systems to create a formidable force, greater than the sum of its parts, to fight off attack from phage viruses.

Released: 22-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
A new beginning: The search for more temperate Tatooines
Yale University

Luke Skywalker’s childhood might have been slightly less harsh if he’d grown up on a more temperate Tatooine — like the ones identified in a new, Yale-led study.

Released: 22-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
Side effects of wide scale forestation could reduce carbon removal benefits by up to a third
University of Sheffield

The side effects of large-scale forestation initiatives could reduce the CO2 removal benefits by up to a third, a pioneering study has found.

Released: 22-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
Climate change linked to rise in mental distress among teens, according to Drexel study
Drexel University

Worsening human-induced climate change may have effects beyond the widely reported rising sea levels, higher temperatures, and impacts on food supply and migration – and may also extend to influencing mental distress among high schoolers in the United States.

   
Newswise: Commercial shipment marks big step for safer, more efficient nuclear fuels
Released: 22-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
Commercial shipment marks big step for safer, more efficient nuclear fuels
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

After two decades, laboratory reopens for spent fuel testing

Newswise: Killer instinct drove evolution of mammals’ predatory ancestors
22-Feb-2024 4:05 AM EST
Killer instinct drove evolution of mammals’ predatory ancestors
University of Bristol

The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was driven by their need to improve as killers, researchers at the University of Bristol and the Open University suggest.

Newswise: Cooler, wetter parts of Pacific Northwest likely to see more fires, new simulations predict
Released: 22-Feb-2024 6:05 PM EST
Cooler, wetter parts of Pacific Northwest likely to see more fires, new simulations predict
Newswise Review

Forests in the coolest, wettest parts of the western Pacific Northwest are likely to see the biggest increases in burn probability, fire size and number of blazes as the climate continues to get warmer and drier, according to new modeling led by an Oregon State University scientist.

Newswise: Physicists Remotely Sense Radioactive Decay to Probe Fundamental Forces and Particles
Released: 22-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Physicists Remotely Sense Radioactive Decay to Probe Fundamental Forces and Particles
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Two collaborations have pioneered a new technique, Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy, to investigate the nature of fundamental particles and forces in the universe. The Project 8 collaboration set an upper limit on the mass of neutrinos. The He6-CRES collaboration observed the decay of radioactive isotopes of helium and neon to set the stage for investigating the weak interaction.

Newswise: FLARE Brings New Power to Magnetic Reconnection Research
Released: 22-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
FLARE Brings New Power to Magnetic Reconnection Research
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Plasma is unusual here on Earth. It’s a gas that’s so hot that the ions and electrons in it aren’t bound to each other in atoms. Even though it’s one of the four fundamental states of matter, you may never think of it alongside solids, liquids, and gases.

Newswise: Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant
22-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

New observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have provided the first direct evidence of what is likely a neutron star, revealed by the effects of its high-energy emission, at the center of the Supernova 1987A remnant.

Newswise: Snakes: An Evolutionary Winner
19-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Snakes: An Evolutionary Winner
Stony Brook University

A study of more than 60,000 specimens of snakes and lizards worldwide reveals that snakes stand out alone in the evolution of reptiles. The team of scientists discovered that snakes evolved incredibly fast, as their ancestors shed limbs and adapted on multiple levels to live and spread out into thousands of species of snakes over 66 million years, up to today.

Newswise: ETRI Unveils Ultra-Fast Generative Visual Intelligence Model: Creates Images in Just 2 Seconds
Released: 22-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
ETRI Unveils Ultra-Fast Generative Visual Intelligence Model: Creates Images in Just 2 Seconds
National Research Council of Science and Technology

ETRI’s researchers have unveiled a technology that combines generative AI and visual intelligence to create images from text inputs in just 2 seconds, propelling the field of ultra-fast generative visual intelligence.

Release date: 22-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
MD Anderson acquires inducible switch technologies for cell therapy
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

MD Anderson has acquired certain assets from Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. related to the CaspaCIDE switch and GoCAR platforms. As a result, MD Anderson may incorporate these technologies into its own cell therapy programs as well as make them available for licensing to interested parties.

Newswise: Graphene research: numerous products, no acute dangers
Released: 22-Feb-2024 8:05 AM EST
Graphene research: numerous products, no acute dangers
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

The largest EU research initiative ever launched has come to a successful end: The Graphene Flagship was officially concluded at the end of last year. Empa researchers were also involved, such as molecular biologist Peter Wick, who was part of the Health and Environment work package from the very beginning – and has just summarized the findings in this area with international colleagues in a comprehensive review article in the specialist journal ACS Nano.



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