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Newswise: Taking a ‘One in a Million’ Shot to Tackle Dopamine-Linked Brain Disorders
Released: 12-Aug-2024 8:30 AM EDT
Taking a ‘One in a Million’ Shot to Tackle Dopamine-Linked Brain Disorders
Florida Atlantic University

With the help of a tiny, transparent worm called Caenorhabditis elegans, researchers have identified novel players in dopamine signaling by taking advantage of a powerful platform generated via the Million Mutation Project for the rapid identification of mutant genes based on their functional impact.

   
Newswise: High-speed trains face icy challenges: new study assesses overhead contact system adaptability
Released: 9-Aug-2024 9:05 AM EDT
High-speed trains face icy challenges: new study assesses overhead contact system adaptability
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A pivotal study assesses the ice-covered environmental adaptability of overhead contact systems in high-speed railways, vital for ensuring the continuous and safe collection of electrical energy.

Newswise: Powering Enzymes with Light to Make Ammonia
Released: 8-Aug-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Powering Enzymes with Light to Make Ammonia
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Converting dinitrogen into ammonia is critical for making fertilizer. Conventional conversion processes use adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Researchers are now working on processes that instead use sunlight, which reduces energy use and greenhouse gas production relative to the ATP process. In this research, scientists created a unique biohybrid that couples nanocrystals to nitrogen-catalyzing enzymes to produce ammonia using sunlight.

Newswise: Defect engineering leads to designer catalyst for production of green hydrogen
Released: 7-Aug-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Defect engineering leads to designer catalyst for production of green hydrogen
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Efficient technology for splitting the hydrogen-oxygen bond in water could be the key to producing low-cost, green hydrogen for energy storage at an industrial scale. Green hydrogen is expected to play a significant role in achieving the target of net zero carbon dioxide emissions. In a new study, an interdisciplinary group of researchers have identified a way to use “defect engineering” to significantly boost catalytic efficiency, taking science one step closer to sustainable, green hydrogen production.

Newswise: A Better Understanding of DNA Unpacking
Released: 6-Aug-2024 4:30 PM EDT
A Better Understanding of DNA Unpacking
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Researchers now have a better understanding of the protein complex that creates access to packed DNA, TIP60. Knowing the detailed structure and behavior of TIP60 could provide insight into different diseases where the protein complex plays a role, such as Alzheimer's and various cancers.

   
Newswise: What Happens to the Remains of Neutron Star Mergers?
Released: 6-Aug-2024 4:05 PM EDT
What Happens to the Remains of Neutron Star Mergers?
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The collision of neutron stars creates an enigmatic object called a remnant. These remnants can, but don’t always, collapse into a black hole. This research used supercomputer simulations to examine the internal structure of these remnants and their cooling process, primarily through neutrino emissions, and what that means for black hole formation.

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Released: 25-Jul-2022 10:40 AM EDT
Cytovale Reveals 10-Minute, 510(K) Pending Cytovale System and Intellisep Test for Sepsis at AACC 2022
2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting Press Program

Cytovale®, a medical diagnostics company focused on providing rapid and insightful tools to improve early detection of fast-moving and immune-mediated diseases, will reveal its 510(k) pending Cytovale system and 10-minute IntelliSep® sepsis risk stratification test at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) annual meeting, where new data featuring the test will also be shared. The instrument can be seen in the Cytovale booth, no. 5045, in the exhibit hall during Clinical Lab Expo hours. The IntelliSep test was recently named an AACC Disruptive Technology Award Semifinalist and is also being featured in the Disruptive Tech area of the exhibit hall during the meeting.

Newswise: NASA’s Webb to Uncover Riches of the Early Universe
Released: 22-Jun-2022 10:05 AM EDT
NASA’s Webb to Uncover Riches of the Early Universe
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Telescopes have spotted many distant galaxies – but none earlier than 400 million years after the big bang. What were galaxies that existed even earlier like? Two research teams using the James Webb Space Telescope will wield its state-of-the-art instruments to reveal an untold number of details about this early period in the universe for the first time – and revise what we know about some of the earliest chapters of galaxy evolution.

Released: 12-Jun-2020 9:05 AM EDT
Celebrating 20 Years of Smashing Success at RHIC
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Let’s wind back the clock and take a look at the lead-up to RHIC’s first collisions with these excerpts from the Brookhaven Bulletin. As you’ll see, getting a complicated particle collider up and running takes a lot of teamwork and coordinated effort. And it isn’t always a straight-line path!

Released: 11-Jun-2020 4:05 PM EDT
PPPL ramps up activities for diagnostics for ITER fusion experiment
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Laboratory's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will lead the design and construction of several diagnostics for ITER, the international fusion experiment. At the same time, engineers are completing design work on a microwave reflectometer diagnostic called a low field side reflectometer.

Released: 11-Jun-2020 8:30 AM EDT
Could These ‘Salt-loving’ Edible Sea Vegetables be the New Kale?
Florida Atlantic University

Skip the salt! Three species of sea vegetables could just be the new kale with the added benefit of a salty flavor. The 10-week study was designed to determine the optimal growing conditions for these sea vegetables that could soon be a great addition to salads, soups, pasta, rice and other dishes in the continental U.S. These nutritious plants for human consumption do not require fresh water and instead are grown in salt water.

Released: 11-Jun-2020 7:00 AM EDT
Could the Answer to Groundwater Resources Come From High in the Sky?
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A new computational approach developed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory offers a high-tech yet simple method for estimating groundwater: it pairs high-resolution images derived by satellite with advanced computer modeling to estimate aquifer volume change from observed ground deformation.

Released: 10-Jun-2020 4:50 PM EDT
How Stimulus Dollars are Spent will Affect Emissions for Decades
University of California San Diego

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have led to a record crash in emissions. But it will be emission levels during the recovery—in the months and years after the pandemic recedes—that matter most for how global warming plays out

Released: 25-Feb-2019 12:05 PM EST
Ancient Rocks Provide Clues About Earth's Early History
Florida State University

Researchers discovered that Earth's oceans started becoming oxygenated millions of years earlier than previously recognized.

14-Jan-2019 4:05 PM EST
Greenland Ice Melting Four Times Faster Than in 2003, Study Finds
Ohio State University

Greenland is melting faster than scientists previously thought—and will likely lead to faster sea level rise—thanks to the continued, accelerating warming of the Earth’s atmosphere, a new study has found.

Released: 18-Jan-2019 11:10 AM EST
Body-Painting Protects Against Bloodsucking Insects
Lund University

A study by researchers from Sweden and Hungary shows that white, painted stripes on the body protect skin from insect bites. It is the first time researchers have successfully shown that body-painting has this effect. Among indigenous peoples who wear body-paint, the markings thus provide a certain protection against insect-borne diseases.

Released: 9-Jan-2019 4:00 PM EST
How Fast Fashion Hurts Environment, Workers, Society
Washington University in St. Louis

The overabundance of fast fashion — readily available, inexpensively made clothing — has created an environmental and social justice crisis, claims a new paper from an expert on environmental health at Washington University in St. Louis.“From the growth of water-intensive cotton, to the release of untreated dyes into local water sources, to worker’s low wages and poor working conditions, the environmental and social costs involved in textile manufacturing are widespread,” said Christine Ekenga, assistant professor at the Brown School and co-author of the paper “The Global Environmental Injustice of Fast Fashion,” published in the journal Environmental Health.

     
5-Nov-2018 4:00 PM EST
Ancient DNA Analysis Yields Unexpected Insights About Peoples of Central, South America
Harvard Medical School

The first high-quality ancient DNA data from Central and South America reveals two previously unknown genetic exchanges between North and South America, one representing a continent-wide population turnover Findings link the oldestCentral and South American samples with the Clovis culture, the first widespread archaeological culture of North America; however, this lineage disappeared within the last 9,000 years Analyses show shared ancestry between ancient Californians from the Channel Islands and groups that became widespread in the southern Peruvian Andes by at least 4,200 years ago

1-Nov-2018 10:05 AM EDT
How Beatboxers Produce Sound: Using Real-Time MRI to Understand
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Beatboxing is a musical art form in which performers use their vocal tract to create percussive sounds, and a team of researchers is using real-time MRI to study the production of beatboxing sounds. Timothy Greer will describe their work showing how real-time MRI can characterize different beatboxing styles and how video signal processing can demystify the mechanics of artistic style. Greer will present the study at the Acoustical Society of America's 176th Meeting, Nov. 5-9.

Released: 23-Jul-2018 8:05 AM EDT
Archaeologists Identify Ancient North American Mounds Using New Image Analysis Technique
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Researchers at Binghamton University, State University at New York have used a new image-based analysis technique to identify once-hidden North American mounds, which could reveal valuable information about pre-contact Native Americans.



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