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Newswise: Love on the land: Helping farmers grow healthy relationships
4-Mar-2024 8:05 PM EST
Love on the land: Helping farmers grow healthy relationships
University of South Australia

Life on the land can be great, but it can also put a lot of pressure on romantic relationships. Now, rural health experts from the University of South Australia have launched a new online resource to help farmers build and maintain a healthy relationship with their partner.

Newswise: New device could improve pediatric concussion recovery
Released: 11-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
New device could improve pediatric concussion recovery
Ohio State University

Researchers have received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to measure cognitive workload with a wearable sensor to monitor how children recover from a brain injury.

Newswise: Mercy Medical Center Physicians to See Patients in Collaboration with Frederick Gastroenterology Associates (FGA)
Released: 11-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Mercy Medical Center Physicians to See Patients in Collaboration with Frederick Gastroenterology Associates (FGA)
Mercy Medical Center

Mercy Medical Center digestive health, liver, obesity and GI cancer specialists will see patients in collaboration with Frederick Gastroenterology Associates (FGA), Paul J. Thuluvath, M.D., Chief, Division of Gastroenterology at Mercy, has announced.

   
Newswise: Giving particle detectors a boost
Released: 11-Mar-2024 3:45 PM EDT
Giving particle detectors a boost
Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have tested the performance of a new device that boosts particle signals.

Newswise: Inverting Fusion Plasmas Improves Performance
Released: 11-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Inverting Fusion Plasmas Improves Performance
Department of Energy, Office of Science

At high temperatures and densities, plasmas in fusion devices can develop gradients that can grow into instabilities, including edge localized modes (ELMs) that can damage reactor walls. In this research, scientists studied negative triangularity, a way the plasma shape can deviate from an oval. The research found this shaping was inherently free of instabilities across various plasma conditions, including operating reactor conditions.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Q&A: How Instagram influencers profit from anti-vaccine misinformation
University of Washington

New research from the UW examines how three wellness Instagram influencers profited from anti-vaccine misinformation.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
UMD Smith Offering Free Risk Assessment for Nonprofits, Small Firms
University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Smith’s Justice for Fraud Victims project is providing pro bono control risk assessments. The work is CPA-supervised including under professor and JFV director Samuel Handwerger.

   
Newswise: Phase 3 CELLEBRATE Trial Testing Regenerative Stem Cell-Based Therapy to Improve Urinary Control for Women
Released: 11-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Phase 3 CELLEBRATE Trial Testing Regenerative Stem Cell-Based Therapy to Improve Urinary Control for Women
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

The Phase 3 CELLEBRATE trial to test a regenerative stem cell-based therapy in treating patients with stress urinary incontinence is continuing to recruit additional subjects after changing its study protocol to include only patients who have already tried surgery.

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Released: 11-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Propelling 3D printing into the future
Sandia National Laboratories

A team of chemists and materials scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new printing process that prints stronger nonmetallic materials in record time, five times faster than traditional 3D printing.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Modern Hydrogen CTO Max Mankin Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Max Mankin to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Michael Schnall-Levin, CTO and founding scientist, 10x Genomics; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Concerto Biosciences CEO Cheri Ackerman Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Cheri Ackerman to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Max Mankin, co-founder and CTO, Modern Hydrogen; Michael Schnall-Levin, CTO and founding scientist, 10x Genomics; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
10x Genomics CTO Michael Schnall-Levin Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Michael Schnall-Levin to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Max Mankin, co-founder and CTO, Modern Hydrogen; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Technology Leader Alfred Spector Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Alfred Spector to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Max Mankin, co-founder and CTO, Modern Hydrogen; and Michael Schnall-Levin, CTO and founding scientist, 10x Genomics.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Cybersecurity Pioneer Steven Lipner Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Steven B. Lipner to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Max Mankin, co-founder and CTO, Modern Hydrogen; Michael Schnall-Levin, CTO and founding scientist, 10x Genomics; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:45 AM EDT
SLU Professor Recognized By AUPHA for Excellence in Health Education
Saint Louis University

Kimberly R. Enard, PhD, MSHA, MBA, FACHE, associate professor in the College for Public Health and Social Justice (CPHSJ) at Saint Louis University, made history when she was named the 2024 John D. Thompson Prize Recipient by the Association of University Programs for Health Administration for her excellence in health education and administration, becoming the first African-American and the first SLU faculty member to receive this award.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
MSU finds insights in microbes near Centralia mine fire that could help alleviate impacts of climate change
Michigan State University

Michigan State University researchers have provided new answers to that question by analyzing soil microbes near a mine fire that’s been burning for more than 60 years.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Five Science and Technology Leaders Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of five new members to its board of directors: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Max Mankin, co-founder and CTO, Modern Hydrogen; Michael Schnall-Levin, founding scientist and CTO, 10x Genomics; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Newswise: Lung cancer treatment shows promise in tumor models
Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Lung cancer treatment shows promise in tumor models
UT Southwestern Medical Center

A molecule has demonstrated its ability to kill tumor cells and incite an immune response in preclinical models of small cell lung cancer (SCLC), according to UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers. The findings, published in Nature Communications, could lead to more successful treatments for SCLC, one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths in the U.S.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Cancer researchers awarded $3.2 million grant to find better ways to treat advanced melanoma
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

A team of investigators from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute was awarded a $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify new ways to prevent and overcome treatment resistance to targeted therapy in patients with all sub-types of cutaneous melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:00 AM EDT
Wrist Device That Monitors Activity Could Help Provide Early Warning of Alzheimer’s
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Monitoring daily activity patterns using a wrist-worn device may detect early warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Newswise: Preventing Magnet Meltdowns Before They Can Start
Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:00 AM EDT
Preventing Magnet Meltdowns Before They Can Start
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

High-temperature superconductor magnets have the potential to lower the costs of operating particle accelerators and enable powerful new technologies like fusion reactors. But quenches – the sudden, destructive events wherein a part of the material loses superconductivity – are a major barrier to their deployment.

8-Mar-2024 1:00 PM EST
Permitless Open Carry Laws May Lead to More Firearm-Related Suicides
American College of Surgeons (ACS)

In states that relaxed firearm laws to allow openly carrying a loaded firearm in public without a permit, significantly more people died by firearms and suicide than in states without permitless open carry laws, according to study findings published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS).

Newswise:Video Embedded turns-out-male-roundworms-are-picky-when-choosing-a-mate-new-research-finds
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6-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EST
Turns out—male roundworms are picky when choosing a mate, new research finds
University of Rochester Medical Center

The Portman lab at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester discovered that the male roundworms use pheromones and touch signals to determine the sex, age, nutritional health, and mating history of the hermaphrodites and show preference toward worms that have not previously mated with another male and are nutritionally healthy.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Alerta do especialista: as calorias são todas iguais?
Mayo Clinic

Você já ouviu dizer que “caloria é caloria” em relação à perda de peso, mas isso é mesmo verdade? Com tantas dietas diferentes por aí (cetogênica, jejum intermitente, mediterrânea), isso pode ser um grande desafio.

Newswise: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe’s Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists
Released: 11-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
NASA’s Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe’s Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

The best measurements from Hubble show the universe is now expanding faster than predicted based on observations of how it looked shortly after the big bang. Some scientists suggested that Hubble observations are wrong due to some creeping inaccuracy in its deep-space yardstick. However, Webb’s sharp infrared views of milepost markers known as Cepheids agree with Hubble data.

Newswise: What Does the American Public Really Think of AI?
Released: 11-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
What Does the American Public Really Think of AI?
Stony Brook University

In 2021, two Stony Brook University researchers began conducting a survey study on attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) among American adults. Some of their recent findings, published in the journal Seeds of Science, show a shift in Americans’ views on AI.

Newswise: New Research Shows Sexual Minority Adults More Willing to Use Digital Health Tools for Public Health
Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:45 AM EDT
New Research Shows Sexual Minority Adults More Willing to Use Digital Health Tools for Public Health
JMIR Publications

In the current climate of increased medical mistrust, survey data show sexual minority adults are more open to using COVID-19 screening and tracking tools, challenging stereotypes and highlighting the need for inclusive health care solutions.

   
Newswise: ‘Study drugs’ set the stage for other drug use and mental health decline
Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
‘Study drugs’ set the stage for other drug use and mental health decline
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Taking “study drugs” like Adderall without a diagnosis is not only dangerous in itself, but can lead to other drug use and a decline in mental health, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Newswise: Cancer Research in 3D
Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Cancer Research in 3D
Department of Energy, Office of Science

In cancer research, seeing is believing. Before they can diagnose or treat cancer, researchers and doctors need to have a clear understanding of what’s happening at a microscopic level. While existing technology allows us to see things the naked eye can’t, a team of researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is working to standardize a process for staining and seeing cancer in a whole new perspective – in 3D (three dimensions).

   
Newswise: What Does Social Justice Have to Do with Evolution? Everything.
Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
What Does Social Justice Have to Do with Evolution? Everything.
University of Rhode Island

Award-winning Central Falls High School biology teacher David Upegui, Ph.D., teamed up with URI paleontologist David Fastovsky to write a book aimed at helping teachers incorporate social justice into the biology curriculum.

   
Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Study Shows An Anti-Racist School Program Didn’t Stress Out Kids
North Carolina State University

A new study of how high school students respond to a program designed to increase the frequency and quality of conversations about race in school finds that the anti-racist intervention did not cause stress or feelings of alienation among study participants.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Alerta para los expertos: ¿son todas las calorías iguales?
Mayo Clinic

Seguro ha escuchado que “una caloría es una caloría” cuando se trata de perder peso, ¿puede ser eso realmente cierto? Debido a la variedad de dietas que existen (cetogénica, mediterránea o de ayuno intermitente), puede ser un desafío abrumador.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Establishes Institute for Equity and Justice in Health Sciences Education
Mount Sinai Health System

The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai announced today the establishment of the Institute for Equity and Justice in Health Sciences Education. The Institute will expand upon Icahn Mount Sinai’s anti-racist, anti-biased learning and training environment in medical and graduate education.

   
Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
تنبيه من خبير: هل السُعرات الحرارية تنشأ جميعها بشكل متساوٍ؟
Mayo Clinic

لا بدّ أنك قد سمعت مقولة "السُعرة الواحدة ما هي إلا سُعرة واحدة" فيما يتعلق بإنقاص الوزن، ولكن هل هذا صحيح فعلاً؟ في ظل انتشار العديد من الحميات الغذائية مثل (الكيتو والصيام المتقطع وحمية البحر الأبيض المتوسط)، قد يكون هناك تحدٍ كبير في هذا المجال.

Newswise: Bringing the Sense of Touch to Create a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse
Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Bringing the Sense of Touch to Create a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) is partnering government-funded research institutes and universities to create a hyper-realistic metaverse that can be touched.

Newswise: Chicago White Sox Team Physician Warns Baseball Parents of Overuse Injury Epidemic
Released: 11-Mar-2024 8:55 AM EDT
Chicago White Sox Team Physician Warns Baseball Parents of Overuse Injury Epidemic
Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH

Dr. Mark Cohen, hand, wrist and elbow surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH, and an official team physician for the Chicago White Sox, wants to warn parents about the epidemic he is seeing in his practice: youth baseball players experiencing overuse injuries in greater numbers.

Newswise: “Organic Fertilizer from Cassava Waste” An Innovation from Chula to Replace Chemical Fertilizers and Increase the Value of Agricultural Waste
Released: 11-Mar-2024 8:55 AM EDT
“Organic Fertilizer from Cassava Waste” An Innovation from Chula to Replace Chemical Fertilizers and Increase the Value of Agricultural Waste
Chulalongkorn University

A Chula researcher has been successful in adding value to agricultural waste generated by industrial factories by transforming cassava waste and sewage sludge into organic fertilizer to replace the use of chemical fertilizers. He has also come up with a special formula of microbial inoculum that increases nutrients needed by plants.

Newswise: “Molecular Rosetta Stone” Reveals How our Microbiome Talks to Us
Released: 11-Mar-2024 8:10 AM EDT
“Molecular Rosetta Stone” Reveals How our Microbiome Talks to Us
University of California San Diego

Researchers from Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science at the University of California San Diego have uncovered thousands of previously unknown bile acids, a type of molecule used by our gut microbiome to communicate with the rest of the body.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Study Identifies Successful Methods to Recruit South Asian Women for Breast Cancer Research
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers Health experts, conducting research during the COVID-19 pandemic, found that radio is an effective recruitment tool

Newswise: Novel method for controlling light polarization
Released: 11-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Novel method for controlling light polarization
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Researchers have developed a new method for controlling the polarization of light that could lead to advances in cryptography, imaging, and other fields. This method uses liquid crystals to create holograms enabling the manipulation of vectorial field at different points.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 7:00 AM EDT
Happiness can be learnt, but you have to work at it – study finds
University of Bristol

We can learn to be happy, but only get lasting benefits if we keep practising, a first-of-its-kind study has revealed.

Newswise: Smart protection for delicate skin
Released: 11-Mar-2024 3:05 AM EDT
Smart protection for delicate skin
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Skin injuries caused by prolonged pressure often occur in people who are unable to change their position independently – such as sick newborns in hospitals or elderly people. Thanks to successful partnerships with industry and research, Empa scientists are now launching two smart solutions for pressure sores.

   


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