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City, University of London's Dr Martin White, explores a novel organic Rankine system for converting waste heat into electricity.

For many diseases, overweight and obesity are risk factors. But now a study shows that a higher BMI may be linked to higher survival rates in patients hospitalized for severe bacterial infections.

Forensic archaeologists and anthropologists from Cranfield University have started to recover the bodies of victims executed by the Franco regime at the end of the Spanish Civil War during an excavation in the Ciudad Real region of Spain.

The study shows that a local oxygen level depletion makes the brain less resistant to the disease's progression. This underscores the importance of a healthy lifestyle in preventing damage from Alzheimer's disease.

King's College London has found that people on a social media suicide support forum are most likely to post to the site during the early hours of Monday morning.

An increased connectivity in the brain between the auditory cortex and the motor control areas related to the face, mouth and throat has been discovered in people with misophonia by researchers led by Newcastle University, UK. Their hatred of "trigger noises" can lead to an extreme reaction including anger and disgust. This is the first time such a connection in the brain has been identified and it offers a new path for therapies.

Researchers have used an advanced high-spatial resolution isotope mapping technique called 'SIMS' (secondary ion mass spectrometry) to chart for the first time how long it takes for labelled carbon produced by microalgae to be transferred to the bacteria they are growing with.

Researchers reported a Bismacrocycle consisted of all phenylene units and demonstrating a unique Siamese-twin 3D structure similar to the number 8, shedding light on photoelectric and supramolecular material synthesis.

A critical process in the infection cycle of viruses has been revealed for the first time in dynamic detail using pioneering plant-based technology.

People who have had a mild case of COVID-19 are left with long-term antibody protection against future disease, according to a study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The ways in which we approach games reveal much about the inner working of our mind and serve a testbed for researching artificial intelligence and computing algorithms. In a recent study, scientists at JAIST applied novel search indicators in search tree algorithms and used them for solving turn-based games such as Checkers and Connect 4, while also exploring the relationship with subjective playing experiences. Their results help bridge the notions of computing and game playing.

An international research collaboration led by the University of Tsukuba have used Raman microspectroscopy and Raman imaging to detect changes in the elastic and collagen fibers in the aortic wall characteristic of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms (aTAAs). This has the potential to be used as a low-risk, early diagnostic tool to detect pre-aneurysmal lesions before serious complications develop.

Two species of sand-stabilizing beachgrasses introduced to the Pacific Northwest starting in the early 1900s are hybridizing, raising new questions about impacts to the coastal ecosystems the non-native plants have been engineering for more than a century.

POSTECH research team proposes the direction for designing highly efficient spin Seebeck-based thermoelectric devices.

Diseases carried to the Amazon by European settlers after 1492 are thought to have brought about the 'Great Dying', but new research suggests climate change may already have been affecting indigenous populations before this.

Healthcare and aerospace experts have said advances in digital twin technology make it a powerful tool for facilitating predictive and precision medicine and enhancing decision-making for aerospace systems. Their opinion piece was published today in Nature Computational Science.

The birth of a subnanometer-sized soccer ball. Video captures the details of a molecule-to-molecule transformation.

Three dozen dwarf galaxies far from each other had a simultaneous "baby boom" of new stars, an unexpected discovery that challenges current theories on how galaxies grow and may enhance our understanding of the universe.

Several Phase II clinical trials conducted by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center show promising results for patients with melanoma, breast cancer, HER2-positive tumors and ovarian cancer. The results of these studies, which will be presented at the virtual 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, highlight new advances in drug therapy research to improve patient outcomes.

A bottleneck limits the effectiveness of microfluidic chips. Reaction-containing droplets can collide, break up, and foul experiments. "It's a traffic problem, like several lanes of cars trying to squeeze through a tollbooth," says Sindy Tang, a mechanical engineering professor at Stanford. Placing "traffic circles" in the flow path causes droplets to line up in an orderly fashion so they can zoom through the system with far fewer collisions.