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Release date: 3-May-2024 4:05 PM EDT
New MSU research: Are carbon-capture models effective?
Michigan State University

reforestation models have been over exaggerated — and not by a small factor — but by as many as three times of a factor. The goal set by the Paris Agreement in 2015 for countries to limit their global warming to 1.5 degrees is now close to being surpassed.

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Newswise: What If Metals Could Conduct Light?
Release date: 3-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
What If Metals Could Conduct Light?
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Conventional metals cannot conduct light in their interiors, but scientists have discovered that in the quantum metal ZrSiSe, electrons can give rise to plasmons. These are collective oscillations in a material that are strong and long lived, and they can combine with photons to form new modes called polaritons that can carry photons along zig-zag paths in the material.

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Newswise: The KDK Collaboration Identifies Rare Nuclear Decay in Long-Lived Potassium Isotope
Release date: 3-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
The KDK Collaboration Identifies Rare Nuclear Decay in Long-Lived Potassium Isotope
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Potassium-40 usually decays to calcium-40, but about 10 percent of the time it decays to argon-40 through electron capture. One variant of this decay path ends in argon-40 in its ground state. The rate of this decay is important for using argon-40 to determine the age of geologic features and studying neutrinoless double beta decay. Researchers recently made the first direct observations of this very rare but critical decay path.

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Newswise: New Theoretical Contribution Helps Examine the Internal Rotation of the Proton
Release date: 3-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
New Theoretical Contribution Helps Examine the Internal Rotation of the Proton
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The quark Sivers function describes much of the physics of how quarks are distributed in a proton whose rotation is perpendicular to its direction of motion. This function shows whether more quarks in the proton move to the right than to the left of the plane created by the proton’s velocity and the direction of the proton’s rotation (spin) axis. Scientists have found a new theoretical contribution to the Sivers function of the quarks carrying a small fraction of the proton’s momentum.

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Newswise: Tweaking isotopes sheds light on promising approach to engineer semiconductors
Release date: 3-May-2024 1:50 PM EDT
Tweaking isotopes sheds light on promising approach to engineer semiconductors
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Research led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated that small changes in the isotopic content of thin semiconductor materials can influence their optical and electronic properties, possibly opening the way to new and advanced designs with the semiconductors.

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Release date: 3-May-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Mental Health First-Aid Training May Enhance Mental Health Support in Prison Settings
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers Health researchers examine connections between mental health wellness education among correctional officers and support for at-risk incarcerated individuals

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Newswise: Metastatic Prostate Cancer Research: PSMAfore follow-on study favors radioligand therapy over change to androgen receptor pathway inhibition
Released: 3-May-2024 12:00 PM EDT
Metastatic Prostate Cancer Research: PSMAfore follow-on study favors radioligand therapy over change to androgen receptor pathway inhibition
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Follow-on analysis of results from the phase 3 PSMAfore study, along with the overall study results, support the consideration of 177Lu-PSMA-617 as a new standard treatment approach for this prevalent population of patients with mCRPC. Research led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and others.

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Release date: 3-May-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Demystifying the complex nature of Arctic clouds
University of Miami

A team of University of Miami scientists and others recently spent weeks in the Arctic region studying marine cold-air outbreaks and how the clouds they produce can lead to extreme weather events and may be interacting with the rapidly warming Arctic.

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Newswise: Researchers Build an Atomic-Level Model of Oxidization on the Surface of Tantalum Film
Release date: 3-May-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Researchers Build an Atomic-Level Model of Oxidization on the Surface of Tantalum Film
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Tantalum superconducting material shows great promise for making qubits. When an oxide layer forms on the surface of tantalum, it can lead to quantum decoherence. In this study, researchers used scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and computer modeling to investigate the structure of superconducting tantalum film. This helped them build an atomic-level understanding of the crystalline lattice of tantalum metal and the oxide that forms on its surface.

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Newswise: Scientists Directly Measure a Key Reaction in Neutron Star Binaries
Release date: 3-May-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Scientists Directly Measure a Key Reaction in Neutron Star Binaries
Department of Energy, Office of Science

X-ray bursts occur on the surface of a neutron star as it absorbs material from a companion star. This absorption initiates a cascade of thermonuclear reactions that create atoms of heavy chemical elements on the surface of a neutron star. Researchers have directly measured one of these reactions, finding it to be four times higher than the previous direct measurement.

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Newswise: Wistar Scientists Discover New Immunosuppressive Mechanism in Brain Cancer
3-May-2024 11:00 AM EDT
Wistar Scientists Discover New Immunosuppressive Mechanism in Brain Cancer
Wistar Institute

The Wistar Institute assistant professor Dr. Filippo Veglia has discovered a key mechanism of how glioblastoma — a serious and often fatal brain cancer — suppresses the immune system so that the tumor can grow unimpeded by the body’s defenses.

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Released: 3-May-2024 9:00 AM EDT
ChatGPT can be helpful for Black women’s self-education about HIV, PrEP
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot called ChatGPT is a powerful way for Black women to educate themselves about HIV prevention, as it provides reliable and culturally sensitive information, according to a study in The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (JANAC), the official journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

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Released: 3-May-2024 3:05 AM EDT
Mexican researchers have found that people who avoid going to psychologists choose the most violent suicide methods
Scientific Project Lomonosov

Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, together with physicians of the Fray Bernardino Álvarez Psychiatric Hospital in Mexico city, have conducted a study, which demonstrated that male subjects with suicidal behavior who had not sought psychological or psychiatric assistance were likely to select more violent suicide methods compared to female subjects.

Released: 3-May-2024 2:05 AM EDT
Genetics, not lack of oxygen, causes cerebral palsy in quarter of cases
University of Adelaide

The world’s largest study of cerebral palsy (CP) genetics has discovered genetic defects are most likely responsible for more than a quarter of cases in Chinese children, rather than a lack of oxygen at birth as previously thought.

     
Released: 2-May-2024 9:05 PM EDT
Gene Expression and Bioinformatics Tools to Optimize Cancer Therapy
Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO)

In the field of biomedical research and genomics, the advancement of bioinformatics technologies and tools is opening new frontiers in the understanding of diseases and their diagnosis and treatment.

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Newswise: ‘Surprising’ hidden activity of semiconductor material spotted by researchers
Released: 2-May-2024 5:05 PM EDT
‘Surprising’ hidden activity of semiconductor material spotted by researchers
Penn State Materials Research Institute

Using advanced imaging techniques, an international team led by Penn State researchers found that the material that a semiconductor chip device is built on, called the substrate, responds to changes in electricity much like the semiconductor on top of it.

Newswise: Combined therapy makes headway for liver cancer
Released: 2-May-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Combined therapy makes headway for liver cancer
UT Southwestern Medical Center

A drug that targets a protein known as phosphatidylserine boosted the response rate for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients receiving immunotherapy without compromising their safety, according to results of a phase two clinical trial conducted by UT Southwestern Medical Center.

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Released: 2-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Nebraska Researcher Helps Untangle History of Fallow Deer
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

An environmental archaeologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Perdikaris maintains a research station on the Caribbean island of Barbuda where, despite the species’ status as national animal and cultural emblem, the fallow deer population could face extinction as a result of over-hunting and massive environmental destruction caused by Hurricane Irma in 2017.

Newswise:Video Embedded new-eco-friendly-lubricant-additives-protect-turbine-equipment-waterways
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Released: 2-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
New eco-friendly lubricant additives protect turbine equipment, waterways
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed lubricant additives that protect both water turbine equipment and the surrounding environment.

Newswise: Nanotubes, nanoparticles, and antibodies detect tiny amounts of fentanyl
Released: 2-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Nanotubes, nanoparticles, and antibodies detect tiny amounts of fentanyl
University of Pittsburgh

Using his platform composed of carbon nanotubes and gold nanoparticles, Professor Alexander Star added antibodies to detect the opioid. His sensor can also distinguish fentanyl from several other common opioids.

Released: 2-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
علاج عُقيدات الغدة الدرقية بدون جراحة
Mayo Clinic

مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا – معظم التكتلات أو العُقيدات في الغدة الدرقية، التي هي غدة في عنقك، غير ضارة ولا تحتاج إلى علاج. ولكنها في بعض الأحيان قد تصبح أكبر وتسبب مشكلات مثل عُسر البلع. في هذه الحالات قد يحتاج الأطباء إلى إجراء جراحة لإزالتها. 

Newswise: Opioid epidemic reaches beyond health impacts  to influence politics
Released: 2-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Opioid epidemic reaches beyond health impacts to influence politics
University of Notre Dame

Vicky Barone, assistant professor of economics at the University Notre Dame, researched the origins and development of the opioid epidemic and found that the unregulated marketing of potent painkillers led to increased access to prescription opioids and subsequent overdose mortalities.

Release date: 2-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
New Research Shows Early Patching Improves Treatment Outcomes for Children with Amblyopia
Rowan University

New study led by Univ. of Leicester & Cooper Medical School of Rowan Univ. finds early patching improves treatment for childhood 'lazy eye' (amblyopia). Published in Lancet. Optimizing care for young patients.

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Newswise: For microscopic organisms, ocean currents act as ‘expressway’ to deeper depths, study finds
Released: 2-May-2024 2:05 PM EDT
For microscopic organisms, ocean currents act as ‘expressway’ to deeper depths, study finds
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

New research shows how tiny plant-like organisms hitch a ride on ocean currents to reach darker and deeper depths, where they impact carbon cycling and microbial dynamics in the subtropical oceans.

Newswise: Scientists Track ‘Doubling’ in Origin of Cancer Cells
2-May-2024 11:00 AM EDT
Scientists Track ‘Doubling’ in Origin of Cancer Cells
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Working with human breast and lung cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have charted a molecular pathway that can lure cells down a hazardous path of duplicating their genome too many times, a hallmark of cancer cells.

1-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Synchronisation between the central circadian clock and the circadian clocks of tissues preserves their functioning and prevents ageing
Fundació Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB BARCELONA)

• Two complementary research articles, published simultaneously in the journals Science and Cell Stem Cell by a team of scientists from the UPF and IRB Barcelona, reveal that central and peripheral circadian clocks coordinate to regulate the daily activity of skin and muscles. • The coordination between the two clocks (central and peripheral) guarantees 50% of the circadian functions of tissues, including vital processes such as the cell cycle, DNA repair, mitochondrial activity, and metabolism. • Synchronisation between the central brain clock and peripheral ones prevents premature muscle ageing and improves muscle function, suggesting new strategies to tackle age-related decline through circadian rhythm modulation.

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Released: 2-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Testing caption edit draft issue
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Newswise: Pancreatic cancer is difficult to treat. Nano-drugs hitching a ride on bacteria could help.
Released: 2-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Pancreatic cancer is difficult to treat. Nano-drugs hitching a ride on bacteria could help.
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Many pancreatic tumors are like malignant fortresses, surrounded by a dense matrix of collagen and other tissue that shields them from immune cells and immunotherapies that have been effective in treating other cancers. Employing bacteria to infiltrate that cancerous fortification and deliver these drugs could aid treatment for pancreatic cancer, according to newly published findings from a team of University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers.

Newswise: Agricultural management practices evaluated in new nitrous oxide accounting method
Released: 2-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Agricultural management practices evaluated in new nitrous oxide accounting method
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Most analyses point to agriculture as the major source of nitrous oxide (N2O) globally. But there are a lot of variables within agriculture that can affect emissions. A recent University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study provides a comprehensive accounting for these factors, finding, among other things, that long-term no-till management can effectively cut N2O emissions.

Newswise: UAH researcher's paper is cited in new FTC ruling banning noncompete agreements for entrepreneurs nationwide
Released: 2-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT
UAH researcher's paper is cited in new FTC ruling banning noncompete agreements for entrepreneurs nationwide
University of Alabama Huntsville

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a ruling banning most noncompete agreements (NCA) nationwide which cites a paper co-authored by a researcher at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Dr. Ege Can in the College of Business at UAH, a part of the University of Alabama System, studied the impact of NCAs on entrepreneurship, highlighting how banning NCAs could boost business innovation.

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Released: 2-May-2024 1:05 PM EDT
As Federal Menthol Ban Languishes, Black Smokers Are Left to the Mercy of Marketers
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers researchers find tobacco companies’ deceptive lobbying and sales activities are rarely perceived by the communities they target.

Newswise: Increasing doses of varenicline or nicotine replacement helps persistent smokers quit
1-May-2024 10:00 AM EDT
Increasing doses of varenicline or nicotine replacement helps persistent smokers quit
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

For most smokers, quitting on the first attempt is likely to be unsuccessful, but a new study from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found patients were more likely to quit if their cessation regimen was altered and doses were increased. Researchers also found that varenicline, a cessation medication, was more effective than combined nicotine replacement therapy (CNRT), such as patches or lozenges.

   
Released: 2-May-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Weight-loss surgery before kidney transplantation improves health and eligibility of patients with obesity and renal failure, Mayo Clinic study finds
Mayo Clinic

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy promotes relatively rapid weight loss, reduces obesity-related health issues and improves eligibility for kidney transplantation for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and obesity, according to new research from Mayo Clinic.

Newswise: Human Activity Is Causing Toxic Thallium to Enter the Baltic Sea, According to New Study
Released: 2-May-2024 10:00 AM EDT
Human Activity Is Causing Toxic Thallium to Enter the Baltic Sea, According to New Study
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Human activities account for a substantial amount - anywhere from 20% to more than 60% - of toxic thallium that has entered the Baltic Sea over the past 80 years, according to new research by scientists affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and other institutions.

Newswise: New York Aquarium Unveils Powerful ‘Washed Ashore’ Experience To Raise Awareness About Ocean Plastic Pollution
Released: 2-May-2024 9:05 AM EDT
New York Aquarium Unveils Powerful ‘Washed Ashore’ Experience To Raise Awareness About Ocean Plastic Pollution
Wildlife Conservation Society

The New York Aquarium is debuting a traveling art exhibit, “Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea” to message about how plastics polluting the environment are harmful to wildlife and people. The exhibit will be at the aquarium Friday, May 24, to Monday, Sept. 2, 2024.

Newswise: Foreign substance inhalation accidents in infants and young children can immediately be resolved by using an endoscopic robot
Released: 2-May-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Foreign substance inhalation accidents in infants and young children can immediately be resolved by using an endoscopic robot
National Research Council of Science and Technology

KIMM develops forceps for bronchial endoscopes for the first time in the country. New device can help to reduce side effects and minimize manpower, and has the potential to be used for bronchial surgeries and upper respiratory surgeries in the future

Released: 2-May-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Tratamento para nódulos na tireoide sem cirurgia
Mayo Clinic

A maioria dos caroços ou nódulos na tireoide, que é uma glândula no pescoço, não são nocivos ou não precisam de tratamento. Entretanto, algumas vezes, eles podem crescer e causar problemas como dificuldade para engolir. Nesses casos, pode ser necessária a remoção deles por meio de cirurgia. 

Released: 2-May-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Sepcial Issue: Safety of slender composite flexible structures in ocean engineering
Chinese Academy of Sciences

China Ocean Engineering Call for Papers Sepcial Issue: Safety of slender composite flexible structures in ocean engineering

Released: 2-May-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Tratamiento de nódulos tiroideos sin cirugía
Mayo Clinic

La mayoría de los bultos o nódulos en la tiroides, una glándula que se encuentra en el cuello, no son peligrosos ni requieren tratamiento. Sin embargo, a veces, pueden agrandarse y ocasionar problemas, como dificultad para tragar. En esos casos, los médicos podrían necesitar hacer una cirugía para extraerlos. 

Newswise: Money on their minds: Health-related costs top older adults’ concerns for people their age, poll finds
Released: 2-May-2024 8:00 AM EDT
Money on their minds: Health-related costs top older adults’ concerns for people their age, poll finds
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

From medical and dental care to medications, insurance and nursing homes, health-related costs weigh heavily on the minds of older Americans of all backgrounds, a new poll suggests.

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Released: 2-May-2024 7:50 AM EDT
Schematic diagram of the overall structure of this perspective.
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A new perspective paper explores the current state and future directions of precision medicine in colorectal cancer (CRC). It outlines advancements in molecular testing and their implications for targeted and immunological therapies in CRC.

Newswise: Revealed: how cancer cells harness energy to drive disease progression
Released: 2-May-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Revealed: how cancer cells harness energy to drive disease progression
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Researchers have revealed crucial insights into how the Warburg effect causes the dedifferentiation of cancer cells through epigenetic reprogramming. This discovery potentially opens up new avenues for cancer treatments that target cellular metabolism.

Released: 2-May-2024 6:00 AM EDT
Four state-of-the-art, artificial intelligence search engines for histopathology images may not be ready for clinical use
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Four proposed state-of-the art image search engines for automating search and retrieval of digital histopathology slides were found to be of inadequate performance for routine clinical care. Some had less than 50% accuracy, which is not suitable for clinical practice.



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