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Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics
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Every time the Olympics come around, it seems there’s a different disease stalking the event. At Rio 2016 it was Zika. At ...
Primary Cause of Lupus Discovered–and A Possible Way to Reverse It
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Lupus effects on the skin – credit Nephron, CC BY-SA 3.0 A team of scientists from Northwestern Medicine and Brigham and Women’s ...
New drug shows immense success in trial
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Results from a large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda show that a new prophylaxis drug can prevent HIV infections in ...
CoRSIVs, first discovered in humans, now found in cattle
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study published in Genome Biology opens new possibilities to improve production efficiency in the cattle industry and ...
A BeiDou-like satnav system for the moon? Chinese scientists plot a possible route
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While the paper did not specify a construction timeline, China aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030 and to build ...
Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look
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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his career: Bohr: ...
Forgotten, Half-Century Old Film Photographs Reveal A Hidden Truth About Antartica’s Glaciers
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In March 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf collapsed catastrophically, breaking up an area about one-sixth the size of Tasmania. In a ...
New class of organic nanoparticles shows promise for diverse applications
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Tunable size achieved through varying cross-linker/inimer compositions. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2406337121 Nanoparticles have a wide ...
Nearby exoplanet could be first known ocean world: Webb telescope
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An artist’s illustration of an planet — though not LHS 1140 b — outside the Solar System. A planet relatively close to ...
Research team develops light-activated compounds to treat neuropathic pain
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Zebrafish larvae. Credit: Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) Light can be used to activate drugs in specific parts of the body ...
