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EPA researchers released two new reports to provide more details about the story of food waste in the United States

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that over one-third of the food produced in the United States is never eaten, wasting the resources used to produce, transport, process, and distribute it – and much of it is sent to landfills, where it breaks down and generates methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

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New research has revealed how light can be used to destroy infectious coronavirus particles that contaminate surfaces.

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Soy compounds called isoflavones are among the plant-derived compounds that may significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence or death, according to a new meta-analysis co-directed by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The results were published Jan. 10 in the journal JNCI Cancer Spectrum.

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Renowned scientist in vaccine and infectious disease research joins prestigious board of visionary leaders

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Veterans with alcohol use disorder (AUD) appear to benefit from a non-invasive technique that uses magnetism to stimulate neurons in areas of the brain linked to psychiatric disorders.

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Laura Feetham-Walker from the Institute of Physics Publishing has won the 2024 APE Award for Innovation in Scholarly Communication at the 19th Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) Conference.

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An international group of researchers finds that conserving about half of global land area could maintain nearly all of nature’s contributions to people and still meet biodiversity targets for tens of thousands of species.

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Models used by scientists to predict how epidemics will spread have a major flaw since they do not take into account the structure of the networks underlying transmission.

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With a rise in both public accessibility and visibility, cosmetic treatments are more popular than ever. Whether your New Year’s resolution is to improve your health or to look and feel your best, the most important thing to remember is that your results depend largely on the skills and knowledge of the person performing your treatment.

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Hepatitis linked to alcohol, the most severe form of alcohol-associated liver disease, is increasingly prevalent, severe, and likely to involve emergency departments, according to a new analysis.

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Join Dr. Joseph D. Romano, an expert in informatics, as he discusses how artificial intelligence can translate environmental health data into actionable insights for healthcare.

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Leslie B. Vosshall, PhD, the Robin Chemers Neustein Professor of Neurogenetics and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, will receive the Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize for her work on receptors that drive host-seeking behavior in the mosquito.

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In an effort to make the internet more accessible for people with disabilities, researchers at The Ohio State University have begun developing an artificial intelligence agent that could complete complex tasks on any website using simple language commands.

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Today, the largest professional societies representing radiation oncology physicians in the United States announced a partnership with the goal of reforming radiation oncology Medicare payments to expand and enhance access to high quality care for people with cancer.

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In a real-world setting, analysis showed that risk of infection and severe illness was significantly lower for those who were vaccinated against COVID-19, and cardiac conditions did not increase

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Using the DOE-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, the Dark Energy Survey has obtained the largest supernova sample ever using a single telescope.

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An artificial intelligence-based program efficiently and accurately identified patients’ risky alcohol use by analyzing their health records, according to a study published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research.

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The construction industry as a CO2 sink? Researchers at Empa's Concrete & Asphalt lab are working on this. By incorporating biochar into concrete, they are exploring the potential of CO2-neutral or even CO2-negative concrete.

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A new RADx Tech fellowship aims to increase diversity among biotechnology innovators. Fellows who recently completed the six-month program share their perspectives on how the fellowship helped them advance their technologies.

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People with obesity who underwent bariatric surgery had stable cognition two years later, a study finds.

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Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis. .

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College students with social anxiety may be driven by social motives to ‘pre-game,’ meaning drink prior to a party or event.

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Embargoed research finds an average of 22 adolescents 14 to 18 years of age died in the U.S. each week in 2022 from drug overdoses, raising the death rate for this group to 5.2 per 100,000-- driven by fentanyl in counterfeit pills. The researchers also found 19 "hotspot" counties with particularly high overdose deaths.

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Sensors are essential tools for detecting and analyzing trace molecules in various fields. However, developing sensors with high enough sensitivity to detect tiny amounts of molecules remains a challenge.

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Using a new technology developed at MIT, diagnosing lung cancer could become as easy as inhaling nanoparticle sensors and then taking a urine test that reveals whether a tumor is present.

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In a new case study published in New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst’s January 2024 issue, UC Davis Health shared a road map for increasing workforce diversity across the health care industry.

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Researchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have identified a mechanism that causes severe gastrointestinal problems with immune-based cancer treatment, also finding a way to deliver immunotherapy’s cancer-killing impact without the unwelcome side effect.

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Margaux Lopez is one of a team of engineers preparing the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile for the arrival of the largest digital camera ever built for astrophysics and cosmology.

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Ultrasound can increase the yield of ethanol, shorten fermentation time ,and increase the type and content of esters.

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Out-of-hospital care surpasses the constraints of traditional in hospital models, transferring healthcare scenarios from within hospital walls to more accessible out-of-hospital settings.

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A seasoned healthcare leader, Kimyatta Washington brings to UChicago Medicine more than 15 years of experience in cancer services.

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Find the latest research and features on fertility in the Fertility News Source on Newswise.

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A new study led by Yale Cancer Center researchers at Yale School of Medicine found that while the initiation of immunotherapy near the end of life has increased over time, a closer look at the benefit and value of these therapies in patients with advanced-stage disease is needed.

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The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Christoph Keller has been appointed as the next Director of the National Science Foundation’s National Solar Observatory (NSO) succeeding Dr. Valentin Pillet, who will be retiring as Director in 2024.

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In The Physics Teacher, researchers from Fordham University partnered with middle and high schools in the Bronx and Manhattan in a citizen science project to collect real-time air quality data.

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A team of researchers from UC San Francisco has found that Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir-ritonavir) did not reduce the risk of developing long COVID for vaccinated, non-hospitalized individuals during their first COVID-19 infection.