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Post-pandemic rehabilitation
The year 2020 was a period of economic hardship and significant change in a wide range of sectors for most countries. A team of authors from HSE University has explored how Russia will recover from this crisis and which industries will be affected by the economic recovery. Their study was published in the journal Voprosy ekonomiki.
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Baby reef fishes swim for gold
Baby coral reef fishes can outpace all other baby fishes in the ocean, swimming around 15-40 body lengths per second.
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Drone tech's next big target: insect pest management
Drones keep getting smaller, while their potential applications keep getting bigger. And now unmanned aircraft systems are taking on some of the world's biggest small problems: insect pests. From crop-munching caterpillars to disease-transmitting mosquitoes, insects that threaten crops, ecosystems, and public health are being targeted with new pest-management strategies that deploy drones for detection and control. A variety of these applications are featured in a new special collection in the Journal of Economic Entomology.
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Unique exoplanet photobombs CHEOPS study of nearby star system
While studying two exoplanets in a bright nearby star system, the CHEOPS satellite has unexpectedly spotted the system's third known planet crossing the face of the star. This transit reveals exciting details about a rare planet "with no known equivalent", as the scientific team led by the Universities of Geneva and Bern, and members of the National Center of Competence in Research PlanetS, point out.
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Pulling wisdom teeth can improve long-term taste function
Patients who had their wisdom teeth extracted had improved tasting abilities decades after having the surgery.
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How we measure biodiversity can have profound impacts on land-use
A study led by Princeton University illustrates this challenge by using several different approaches to solve the same puzzle: Given a target amount of food, where should new croplands be put to minimize environmental or biodiversity impacts?
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Using the ancient art of Kirigami to make an eyeball-like camera
Using Kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, a mechanical engineer at the University of Houston has developed a camera with a curvy, adaptable imaging sensor that could improve image quality in endoscopes, night-vision goggles, artificial compound eyes and fish-eye cameras.
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Mountaintop glacier ice disappearing in tropics around the world
Mountaintop glacier ice in the tropics of all four hemispheres covers significantly less area -- in one case as much as 93% less -- than it did just 50 years ago, a new study has found.
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New molecule found in chestnut leaves disarms dangerous staph bacteria
Scientists isolated a molecule, extracted from the leaves of the European chestnut tree, with the power to neutralize dangerous, drug-resistant staph bacteria. Frontiers in Pharmacology published the finding, led by scientists at Emory University.
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Excessive screen time linked to obesity in US preteen
A new national study finds that children in the United States with greater screen time usage at ages 9-10 are more likely to gain weight one year later.
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Transparent mask increases comprehension of speech by 10%, study shows
An online study involving 154 volunteers measured the importance of visual cues to communication for people with normal hearing and hearing loss.
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COVID-19 vaccine generates immune structures critical for lasting immunity
A new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, published June 28 in the journal Nature, has found evidence that the immune response to Pfizer's mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 is both strong and potentially long-lasting.
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'Unexciting' an anxious brain: Novel drug reduces anxiety-like behavior in mice
Anxiety is considered a natural response to stress. However, a state of heightened anxiety, called anxiety disorder, prevents thousands of people from living their best lives. While several underlying mechanisms have been therapeutically targeted, much remains to be discovered about this disorder. In an effort to get closer to unravelling the mechanisms that govern this condition, Japanese researchers have identified a drug that reduces glutamate-induced neurotransmission, involved in anxiety-like behavior.
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Researchers discover protein complex that promotes cancer growth
A discovery by a team of researchers, led by a Geisinger professor, could yield a potential new treatment for breast cancer.
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Traits of a troll: Research reveals motives of internet trolling
A new study from BYU offers a look at how to know whether or not you're a social media troll.
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Mouse brain imaged from the microscopic to the macroscopic level
Researchers at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have leveraged existing advanced X-ray microscopy techniques to bridge the gap between MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and electron microscopy imaging, providing a viable pipeline for multiscale whole brain imaging within the same brain.
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CHOP researchers discover unique immune response by cells critical to lung health
CHOP researchers have discovered that a specific type of lung cell exhibits unconventional immune properties and may contribute to the outcome of respiratory viral infections. They found that AT2 cells express high levels of major histocompatibility complex II (MHC-II), an important immune system trigger, and that AT2 MHC-II expression appears to confer an appreciable advantage in the outcome of respiratory viral infection.
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Emergency physician residents and health care workers at high risk of physical or verbal assault, new analysis shows
A new study in Annals of Emergency Medicine highlights the importance of protecting physician residents -- early-career doctors still in training -- and emergency care teams from incidents of physical or verbal abuse.
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Are we missing other earths?
Some exoplanet searches could be missing nearly half of the Earth-sized planets around other stars. New findings from a team using the international Gemini Observatory and the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory suggest that Earth-sized worlds could be lurking undiscovered in binary star systems, hidden in the glare of their parent stars. As roughly half of all stars are in binary systems, this means that astronomers could be missing many Earth-sized worlds.
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Weird warbler reveals genetics of its mismatched colors
An incredibly rare hybrid warbler with mismatched color patterns has allowed researchers to disentangle the genetic drivers of two traits that usually come as a package deal--the black face mask and the black throat patch in blue-winged and golden-winged warblers.
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