Discoveries & Research
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Early foster care gave poor women power, 17th-century records reveal
A rare collection of 300-year-old petitions gives voice to the forgotten women who cared for England’s most vulnerable children while…
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Methane emissions from dairy farms higher than thought — but conversion could reduce emissions
New research has found methane emissions from slurry stores on dairy farms may be up to five times greater than…
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Wider use of convalescent plasma might have saved thousands more lives during pandemic
A new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health estimates that thousands of lives could…
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Our brains divide the day into chapters: New psychology research offers details on how
The moment a person steps off the street and into a restaurant — to take just one example — the…
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Stem cell transplants close macular holes in monkeys
Human stem cell transplants successfully repaired macular holes in a monkey model, researchers report October 3rd in the journal Stem…
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New imaging technique accurately detects aggressive kidney cancer
A new study led by investigators from the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has demonstrated a new, non-invasive imaging…
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New findings supply corrective to evolutionary hypothesis
For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods — say five million…
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Engineers create a chip-based tractor beam for biological particles
MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium Falconin the film “Star…
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Faster, more sensitive lung cancer detection from a blood draw
A new way of diagnosing lung cancer with a blood draw is 10 times faster and 14 times more sensitive…
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Strong coupling between Andreev qubits mediated by a microwave resonator
Physicists from the University of Basel have succeeded in coupling two Andreev qubits coherently over a macroscopic distance for the…
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