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Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a fundamental advance that could potentially make metal recovery cleaner, simpler and more energy efficient.

University of Notre Dame anthropologist Kristine Joy Chua and her research team asked the question: How do expectant mothers manage uncertainties and cope with sociopolitical stressors in their lives? The answer: They used creative coping strategies grounded in their culture and upbringing to reframe difficult circumstances and maintain a positive outlook, focusing instead on the things they coul…

New research from the lab of electrical and computer engineering professor Kent Choquette has reported the successful demonstration of a quasi-periodic photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser.

University of Utah researchers join NSF center that explores how robots and people learn to work together. A collaboration of six universities will place assistive robots in everyday human environments.

Iron is essential. Our cells need it to produce energy, carry oxygen throughout the body, and power countless chemical reactions that sustain life.

The latest advances from Cedars-Sinai investigators are highlighted in this month's tip sheet.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have uncovered a critical biological mechanism that helps explain how inflammation is triggered and sustained in a wide range of diseases--highlighting a promising avenue for future therapeutic development.

Nearly 500 oral histories of 9/11 responders - developed and produced by professionals at the Stony Brook World Trade Center Health and Wellness Program over a period of years after the events of 9/11 - are now an online collection on the Library of Congress website.

URI water scientist Soni Pradhanang is balancing the professional and the personal, watching the news in her home country of Nepal after the recent glacial collapse and flooding there.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa typically carries three T6SSs, but clinical isolates can harbor an additional H4 system whose function was unknown. Wu et al. show that the H4-T6SS of clinical isolate LYSZa7 is a functional secretion apparatus when transcriptionally activated. They identify TseMt as a major antibacterial effector that acts in the periplasm, binds membranes, and forms ion-conducting pores. …

Dr. Amir Iravani will serve as director of the Theranostics Program and vice chair of clinical research in the department of nuclear medicine and theranostics.

Pascack Valley Medical Center is pleased to welcome Mamta M. Mamik, M.D., M.Sc., FACOG, FACS, a board-certified and highly trained gynecologic surgeon whose expertise spans female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, neuropelveology, endometriosis, fibroids, chronic pelvic pain, and minimally invasive gynecologic surgery.

As electricity demand rises across the United States, restarting retired nuclear power plants is emerging as one of the quickest paths to increase power generation. However, restarting a nuclear power plant in the United States has never been done and requires thorough reviews, including an environmental review, as required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969.

There's a lot to celebrate at UNC this Homecoming. From longtime traditions that bring Bears together year after year to new experiences that put a fresh spin on the week, Homecoming and Friends...

Symbiotic ammonia-oxidizing archaea in marine sponges are not strict specialists, but true "flexitarians": A team led by microbiologists Bettina Glasl and Katharina Kitzinger from the University of Vienna, in collaboration with partners from Australia, has shown that these microbes dine not only on ammonia but also on amino acids such as valine, leucine, and isoleucine - and presumably do that to…

JMIR Publications released three feature News and Perspectives articles this week, covering an emerging application of drone delivery, the implications of AI tools used in early education, the nascent field of cancer neurotech, and the future of consumer wearable devices.

Emergency visits by children with suicide-related crises increased by 74%, according to a study representing over 5 million emergency department (ED) visits for mental health concerns by U.S. children from 2016 to 2022.

Future fusion reactors will rely on superconducting magnets that must keep working for years while exposed to energetic particles. A new head-to-head irradiation study shows that two candidate superconductors can respond very differently under the same electron-beam conditions. The layered cuprate Bi-2212 progressively lost its crystalline order and became fully amorphous, whereas the A15 superco…

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), commonly known as lupus, is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation across the body, including in the kidneys, lungs, and other organs. People with lupus are at a much higher risk of cardiovascular disease compared to the general population, and young women with lupus are up to 50 times more likely to have a heart attack than young women without lupus.