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Watermelon is a unique fruit loved for its sweet juicy flesh and strong ties to hot summer days, picnics, and family gatherings. Image credit: Andrea Petra Fogas.

Regular Watermelon Consumption May Help Promote Cardio-Metabolic Health

Jan 26, 2022 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the Illinois Institute of Technology has reviewed the preclinical and clinical...

Coffee Consumption Has Stimulating Effect on Digestive Processes, New Review Says

Jan 21, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Since coffee is widely consumed worldwide, it is of critical importance to know its effects on the first organs of the body with which it comes in contact...

Hexagonal boron nitride-based deep-ultraviolet LED. Image credit: Pohang University of Science and Technology.

Researchers Create Deep-Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diode

Jan 20, 2022 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the Pohang University of Science and Technology and the Korean Institute for Basic Science has demonstrated deep-ultraviolet...

Global inventory of subglacial lakes: (a) inventory of northern hemisphere subglacial lakes (SGLs); the top right inset shows the location of part a (red box) in the northern hemisphere; (b) inventory of SGLs beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet; the extents of larger lakes (such as PEL Lake and Lake Vostok) are defined by blue polygons; red circles represent stable lakes identified from radio-echo sounding (RES), and blue triangles represent active lakes that have been observed to drain at least once during the observation period; lakes labeled in green have been accessed and cleanly sampled with the exception of Glacier de Tête Rousse, which was monitored using boreholes (water level) and sonar (cavity geometry), and Lake Vostok. MIC - Mýrdalsjökull Ice Cap, VIC - Vatnajökull Ice Cap. Image credit: Livingstone et al., doi: 10.1038/s43017-021-00246-9.

Scientists Compile First Global Inventory of Subglacial Lakes

Jan 19, 2022 by News Staff

A multinational team of researchers has catalogued data on 773 subglacial lakes — repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for...

A view of the Omo-Kibish geological formation in southwestern Ethiopia. Credit: Céline Vidal.

Africa’s Oldest Known Modern Human Fossils are 233,000 Years Old, Research Suggests

Jan 19, 2022 by News Staff

In the 1960s, paleoanthropologists uncovered the remains of anatomically modern Homo sapiens — known as Omo I — in the lower Omo valley of...

Weekend recovery sleep doesn’t prevent weight gain or reduce insulin sensitivity. Image credit: Wok & Apix.

Study: Human Brain Selectively Tunes to Unfamiliar Voices during Sleep

Jan 18, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists from the University of Salzburg and the University of Basel has presented sleeping volunteers with their own names and unfamiliar...

Scanning electron microscopy image of a nanopatterned YBa2Cu3O7−δ (YBCO) thin film. The 12-nm-thick nanopatterned YBCO thin film was fabricated by reactive ion etching through an anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) membrane directly placed atop the YBCO. By RIE, the anodized aluminium oxide pattern of a triangular array of holes with ~70-nm diameter and ~103-nm period was duplicated onto the YBCO film. Image credit: Yang et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04239-y.

Physicists Discover New Type of ‘Strange Metal’

Jan 14, 2022 by News Staff

A team of physicists from the United States and China has detected the unexpected signatures of strange metallicity in a material in which electrical charge...

Higher olive oil intake was associated with lower risk of total and cause-specific mortality; replacing margarine, butter, mayonnaise, and dairy fat with olive oil was associated with lower risk of mortality. Image credit: Honglin Mu.

Higher Olive Oil Intake Reduces Risk of Total and Cause-Specific Mortality, Study Says

Jan 12, 2022 by News Staff

Consuming more than 7 grams of olive oil per day is associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, cancer mortality, neurodegenerative...

The fully 3D-printed flexible OLED display prototype is about 1.5 inches on each side and has 64 pixels. Image credit: McAlpine Group, University of Minnesota.

Scientists 3D Print Flexible OLED Display

Jan 12, 2022 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota, MIT, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology and Pusan National University has demonstrated a...

Pachhai et al. employ seismic data analysis and high-resolution geodynamic modeling to study the origin of ultralow-velocity zones beneath the Coral Sea between Australia and New Zealand. Image credit: Pachhai et al., doi: 10.1038/s41561-021-00871-5.

Ultralow-Velocity Zones are Leftovers from Early Earth’s Magma Ocean, New Study Suggests

Jan 3, 2022 by News Staff

Ultra-low velocity zones sit beneath the central Pacific and Africa, atop the outer core of Earth. In these areas, seismic waves slow by as much as half,...

Long-lived lakes of water vapor in the atmosphere are observed to occur over the western Indian Ocean. Their dynamics resemble those of a well-studied theoretical and simulation paradigm for tropical disturbances called self-aggregation. Image credit: Mapes & Tsai.

New Meteorological Phenomenon Discovered: Atmospheric Lakes

Dec 30, 2021 by News Staff

Atmospheric lakes are long-lived pools of water vapor that occur over the western Indian Ocean and bring water to dry lowlands along East Africa’s coastline. Long-lived...

Oxygen deficient zone intensity across the eastern Pacific Ocean, where copper colors represent the locations of consistently lowest oxygen concentrations and deep teal indicates regions without sufficiently low dissolved oxygen. Image credit: Jarek Kwiecinski & Andrew Babbin.

High-Resolution Atlas of Pacific Ocean’s Oxygen Deficient Zones Created

Dec 28, 2021 by News Staff

A duo of MIT researchers has created the most detailed atlas of the world’s largest oxygen deficient zones, biogeochemical regions of the global ocean...

Hirai et al. demonstrated that a high-sucrose diet during adolescence induces psychosis-related behavioral endophenotypes, including hyperactivity, poor working memory, impaired sensory gating, and disrupted interneuron function in mice deficient for GLO1, an enzyme involved in detoxification of sucrose metabolites. Image credit: Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science.

High-Sucrose Diet during Adolescence May Contribute to Pathogenesis of Psychiatric Disorders

Dec 28, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using a mouse model, a team of researchers at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science demonstrated that high-dietary sucrose consumption during...

Magnesium-18. Image credit: S.M. Wang / Fudan University & Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Michigan State University.

Physicists Create New Isotope of Magnesium

Dec 24, 2021 by News Staff

Magnesium-18 (18Mg) is the lightest isotope of magnesium, which is element 12 on the periodic table. Magnesium-18. Image credit: S.M. Wang / Fudan University...

A designer view of a single-wall carbon nanotube intramolecular junction with metallic portions on left and right ends and a semiconductor ultrashort 3 nm channel in between. Image credit: Tang et al., doi: 10.1126/science.abi8884.

Scientists Turn Carbon Nanotubes into Tiny Transistors

Dec 24, 2021 by News Staff

Using a transmission electron microscope, a team of materials scientists led by the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics in Japan and...

A valley in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Image credit: S. McMurtrey / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Iodine from Desert Dust Decreases Ozone Air Pollution, New Study Shows

Dec 23, 2021 by News Staff

Iodine, the same chemical added as a nutrient to table salt, is an atmospheric trace element emitted from oceans that efficiently destroys ozone. Low ozone...

Shin et al. provide evidence that dark chocolate consumption in everyday life influences physiological and psychological states. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Daily Consumption of 85% Dark Chocolate May Improve Your Mood

Dec 22, 2021 by Sergio Prostak

New research by scientists from Seoul National University, Korea Food Research Institute and Chungnam National University suggests that dark chocolate...

El Sidron Neanderthals taste wild mushrooms, pine nuts and forest moss. Image credit: Abel Grau, CSIC Communication.

Study: Neanderthals Transformed Landscapes 125,000 Years Ago

Dec 21, 2021 by News Staff

According to an analysis of paleoenvironmental and archaeological data from the 125,000-year-old Neanderthal site of Neumark-Nord in Germany, our closest...

An illustration depicting the onset of the end-Permian mass extinction. Image credit: Dawid Adam Iurino / PaleoFactory, Sapienza University of Rome / Jurikova et al, doi: 10.1038/s41561-020-00646-4.

Toxic Microbes Helped Cause and Prolong End-Permian Marine Mass Extinction, Study Suggests

Dec 20, 2021 by News Staff

Extreme warming at the end of the Permian period induced profound changes in marine biogeochemical cycling and animal habitability, leading to the largest...