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Newswise: “Y-Ball” Compound Yields Quantum Secrets
Released: 20-Mar-2023 8:05 PM EDT
“Y-Ball” Compound Yields Quantum Secrets
 Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Scientists investigating a compound called “Y-ball” – which belongs to a mysterious class of “strange metals” viewed as centrally important to next-generation quantum materials – have found new ways to probe and understand its behavior.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 7:30 PM EDT
Workers' and bosses' trust in teleworking is key
 Universitat Oberta De Catalunya (UOC)

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) researchers have analysed the different perspectives and perceptions on teleworking, looking at the wide range of factors that affect it, including the psychosocial aspects, productivity or costs.

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Newswise: Scientists use tardigrade proteins for human health breakthrough
Released: 20-Mar-2023 7:00 PM EDT
Scientists use tardigrade proteins for human health breakthrough
 University of Wyoming

University of Wyoming researchers’ study of how microscopic creatures called tardigrades survive extreme conditions has led to a major breakthrough that could eventually make life-saving treatments available to people where refrigeration isn’t possible.

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Newswise: Lack of canine COVID-19 data fuels persisting concerns over dog-human interactions
Released: 20-Mar-2023 6:50 PM EDT
Lack of canine COVID-19 data fuels persisting concerns over dog-human interactions
 Purdue University

Early COVID-19 pandemic suspicions about dogs’ resistance to the disease have given way to a long-haul clinical data gap as new variants of the virus have emerged.

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Newswise: Solar industry feeling the heat over disposal of 80 million panels
Released: 20-Mar-2023 6:40 PM EDT
Solar industry feeling the heat over disposal of 80 million panels
University of South Australia

Renewable energy experts have come up with an environmentally-friendly plan to dispose of solar panels at the end of their life.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 6:35 PM EDT
Advanced brain imaging study hints at how DMT psychedelic alters perception of reality
 Imperial College London

In a study at Imperial College London, detailed brain imaging data from 20 healthy volunteers revealed how the potent psychedelic compound, DMT (dimethyltryptamine), alters brain function.

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Newswise: Tulane University’s Walter Isaacson to receive National Humanities Medal
Released: 20-Mar-2023 6:05 PM EDT
Tulane University’s Walter Isaacson to receive National Humanities Medal
 Tulane University

Walter Isaacson, the renowned bestselling biographer, Tulane professor of history and co-chair of the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University, will be awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Joe Biden at a White House ceremony on March 21 at 3:30 p.m. CDT. The event will be livestreamed here.

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Newswise: Profile in Courage
Released: 20-Mar-2023 5:10 PM EDT
Profile in Courage
 Hospital for Special Surgery

A HS quarterback beats cancer, training while receiving chemo to get back to the game. Later has surgery at HSS, inspires staff. Receives Heart of a Giant Award from USA Football and HSS, also named Honored Hero by Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Creates website to help other kids with cancer.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 5:00 PM EDT
Cancer diagnostic services in a community health center speed diagnosis for underserved populations
 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

A co-location model for cancer diagnostic services designed by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has reported a reduction in the time it takes to diagnose cancer in a community health center in Boston, MA, that cares for a historically underserved populations.

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How Incarceration Raises Risk of Cancer Diagnosis and Death—Even After Release
 Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital

In 2012, Michael Cruz exercised a lot. Four years into a 15-year prison sentence, this was one of the only things he had, he says, until he noticed a numb, tingling sensation in one of his toes while working out. At first, he dismissed the feeling. But it persisted, and over time, spread up his ankle. Then, he began experiencing little sharp pains in his back, which he attributed to muscle spasms from his workouts.

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Newswise: Hackensack University Medical Center Now Offering Breakthrough Noninvasive Prostate Cancer Treatment Using Focused Ultrasound Technology
Released: 20-Mar-2023 4:35 PM EDT
Hackensack University Medical Center Now Offering Breakthrough Noninvasive Prostate Cancer Treatment Using Focused Ultrasound Technology
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack University Medical Center’s Department of Urology is now offering an advanced, noninvasive treatment option for patients with localized prostate cancer.

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Newswise: Department of Energy recognizes two decades’ worth of Argonne’s high-quality thermochemical data
Released: 20-Mar-2023 4:15 PM EDT
Department of Energy recognizes two decades’ worth of Argonne’s high-quality thermochemical data
 Argonne National Laboratory

The Department of Energy has designated ATcT as DOE Public Reusable Research Data.

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Newswise: Want More National Science Bowl? For Arpit Ranasaria, the Answer Has Always Been Yes!
Released: 20-Mar-2023 4:10 PM EDT
Want More National Science Bowl? For Arpit Ranasaria, the Answer Has Always Been Yes!
 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

On the last Saturday in February, hundreds of high school students and volunteers of all ages convened at the Technology Building on the Columbia Basin College campus in Pasco, Washington. Outside, the weather was brisk. Inside, however, 21 teams of students from across Washington State were heating up for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) 32nd annual Pacific Northwest (PNW) Regional Science Bowl, a full-day event hosted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 4:00 PM EDT
UC Irvine-led team is first to detect neutrinos made by a particle collider
 University of California, Irvine

In a scientific first, a team led by physicists at the University of California, Irvine has detected neutrinos created by a particle collider. The discovery promises to deepen scientists’ understanding of the subatomic particles, which were first spotted in 1956 and play a key role in the process that makes stars burn.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 3:45 PM EDT
Stigma-coping intervention empowers people with HIV and drug use to engage in health, substance use care
 Boston University School of Medicine

A new study from Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine has found that a brief stigma intervention that specifically targets people with HIV who inject drugs was effective in increasing engagement in substance use care as well as improving their ART adherence.

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Newswise: Can records of firearm purchases help prevent mass shootings?
Released: 20-Mar-2023 3:30 PM EDT
Can records of firearm purchases help prevent mass shootings?
UC Davis Health

A first-of-its-kind study examining records of gun purchases in California found that mass and active shooters have distinct patterns of buying guns compared to other legal purchasers.

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Newswise: SARS-CoV-2 infection weakens immune-cell response to vaccination
Released: 20-Mar-2023 3:25 PM EDT
SARS-CoV-2 infection weakens immune-cell response to vaccination
 NIH, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

The magnitude and quality of a key immune cell’s response to vaccination with two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were considerably lower in people with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to people without prior infection, a study has found.

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Newswise: Infectious Disease Expert Says Get Ahead of Tick Season and West Nile Virus Season
Released: 20-Mar-2023 3:15 PM EDT
Infectious Disease Expert Says Get Ahead of Tick Season and West Nile Virus Season
 Stony Brook University

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20-Mar-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Scientists unearth major clues to mysterious Guam disease
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU)

Researchers from the Uniformed Services University (USU) have shed light on a fatal neurodegenerative disease that has long afflicted the native Chamorro people living on Guam – a unique and mystifying disorder that has baffled scientists for decades.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 2:55 PM EDT
Tackling food insecurity could improve children’s learning
 Lancaster University

Indian children’s education can be impaired when their households struggle to access enough nutritious food, new research has found.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 2:40 PM EDT
Harnessing incoherence to make sense of real-world networks Peer-Reviewed Publication
 University of Birmingham

A new way of describing the connections in real-world systems such as food webs or social networks could lead to better methods for predicting and controlling them.

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Newswise: Tulane dean to release podcast on Anti-Racism and the Disciplines featuring leading Black scholars
Released: 20-Mar-2023 2:35 PM EDT
Tulane dean to release podcast on Anti-Racism and the Disciplines featuring leading Black scholars
 Tulane University

Tulane University School of Liberal Arts will release a new podcast miniseries, Anti-Racism and the Disciplines, that explores the complex histories of liberal arts majors with the aim of identifying more accurate and effective practices in higher education. The podcast series premieres on Tuesday, March 21, in observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 2:25 PM EDT
Spotting early signs of dementia
 University of Delaware

University of Delaware associate professor Matthew Cohen offers 11 signs and symptoms that might suggest a health condition, such as dementia, that affects thinking. Cohen is associate director of the Delaware Center for Cognitive Aging Research.

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Newswise: Water expert discusses proposed PFAS restrictions, progress toward clean water goals ahead of World Water Day
Released: 20-Mar-2023 2:20 PM EDT
Water expert discusses proposed PFAS restrictions, progress toward clean water goals ahead of World Water Day
 West Virginia University

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Newswise: Emergence of extensively drug-resistant Shigella sonnei strain in France
Released: 20-Mar-2023 2:15 PM EDT
Emergence of extensively drug-resistant Shigella sonnei strain in France
 Institut Pasteur

Scientists from the French National Reference Center for Escherichia coli, Shigella and Salmonella at the Institut Pasteur who have been monitoring Shigella in France for several years have detected the emergence of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains of Shigella sonnei.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Genes that form specific bones in the womb heal them later in life
 NYU Langone Health

Genes long known to control the formation of bones before birth also control bone healing later in life, a new study found.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 1:55 PM EDT
Daily step counts before, after onset of COVID-19
 JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

The researchers found a significant decline in daily step counts that persisted even after most COVID-19–related restrictions were relaxed, suggesting COVID-19 affected long-term behavioral choices. It is currently unknown whether this reduction is steps is clinically meaningful over time.

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Newswise: Cats’ non-fearful and sociable personality as well as a clean litterbox appear to decrease litterbox issues
Released: 20-Mar-2023 1:55 PM EDT
Cats’ non-fearful and sociable personality as well as a clean litterbox appear to decrease litterbox issues
 University of Helsinki

Researchers at the University of Helsinki identified several links between various risk factors and feline litterbox issues.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 1:45 PM EDT
Link between chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease explained
 Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Chronic kidney disease is linked to the formation of mineral deposits on blood vessel walls, known as “calcification”, causing cardiovascular disease.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 1:45 PM EDT
New eyes discovered in trilobites
 University of Cologne

Trilobites, prehistoric sea creatures, had so-called median eyes, single eyes on their foreheads, in addition to their compound eyes, research conducted by Dr Brigitte Schoenemann at the University of Cologne’s Institute of Zoology and Professor Dr Euan Clarkson at the University of Edinburgh has now found out.

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Newswise: How do we make farming better for the planet? Ask women
Released: 20-Mar-2023 1:40 PM EDT
How do we make farming better for the planet? Ask women
 Boston University

When a family of five-ton elephants stomps and chomps its way through your crops, there’s only one winner. And in the central African nation of Gabon, farmers are getting fed up with the giant animals trampling their fields—and their livelihoods.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 1:40 PM EDT
Fruit and veg supply issues lead to raised blood pressure, study shows
 University of Kent

It is recognised that low fruit and vegetable consumption is a major, modifiable, risk factor associated with raised blood pressure.

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Newswise: Can synthetic polymers replace the body's natural proteins?
Released: 20-Mar-2023 1:35 PM EDT
Can synthetic polymers replace the body's natural proteins?
 University of California, Berkeley

Most life on Earth is based on polymers of 20 amino acids that have evolved into hundreds of thousands of different, highly specialized proteins. They catalyze reactions, form backbone and muscle and even generate movement.

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Released: 20-Mar-2023 1:30 PM EDT
COVID-19 is associated with an increased risk to develop gastrointestinal disorders
Universita di Bologna

COVID-19 is associated with an increased risk of developing long-term gastrointestinal disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome.

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