Day January 18, 2021

The experiment was performed at the Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP) in Osaka. The research team, lead by scientists from TU Darmstadt and the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy-Ion Research, and from the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science,…

IMAGE: Animals like peccaries and tapirs boost soil levels of nitrogen, an essential element to plant growth view more  Credit: João Paulo Krajewski The White-lipped peccary Tayassu pecari is a boar-like hoofed mammal found throughout Central and South America. These animals…

IMAGE: Grayken Center for Addiction logo view more  Credit: BMC Boston – A national group of pediatric addiction medicine experts have released newly-established principles of care for young adults with substance use disorder. Led by the Grayken Center for Addiction at…

IMAGE: One dimensional quantum lattice liquids. view more  Credit: I. Morera et al. Phys. Rev. Lett Liquids are ubiquitous in Nature: from the water that we consume daily to superfluid helium which is a quantum liquid appearing at temperatures as low…

Researchers from Skoltech and the University of Texas Medical Branch (US) have shown how optoacoustics can be used for monitoring skin water content, a technique which is promising for medical applications such as tissue trauma management and in cosmetology. The…

COLUMBUS, Ohio – “Buy low and sell high” says the old adage about investing in the stock market. But a relatively new type of investment fund is luring unsophisticated investors into buying when values are at their highest, resulting in…

IMAGE: Provides all-inclusive access to the critical pillars of human gene therapy: research, methods, and clinical applications. view more  Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 15, 2021–The biodistribution of adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene transfer vectors can be…

A student infected with COVID-19 returning home from university for Christmas would, on average, have infected just less than one other household member with the virus, according to a new model devised by mathematicians at Cardiff University and published in…

IMAGE: Traditional Shuar lunch items view more  Credit: Samuel Urlacher Variation in consumption of market-acquired foods outside of the traditional diet — but not in total calories burned daily — is reliably related to indigenous Amazonian children’s body fat, according to…

IMAGE: The Fox sisters: Kate (1838-92), Leah (1814-90) and Margaret (or Maggie) (1836-93). Lithograph after a daguerreotype by Appleby. Published by N. Currier, New York. In 1848, two sisters from upstate… view more  Credit: N. Currier, New York Spiritualist mediums might…