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The New York Consortium for Space Technology Innovation and Development has selected five projects for its second round of defense-funded awards, ranging from a Cornell facility to test materials in simulated space environments to a Griffiss Institute program putting middle schoolers to work on rocket payloads.
Read the releaseA new JAMA Network Open study found that residency applications fell significantly in states that enacted new abortion restrictions after the Dobbs ruling. Male applicants changed behavior at even higher rates than female applicants, and the decline hit primary care specialties hardest.
Read the releaseBy pairing conventional frying with microwave heating, researchers at the University of Illinois reduced oil absorption in French fries while maintaining crispiness. The microwave energy heats food from the inside out, creating positive pressure that keeps oil out of the pores.
Read the releaseIn 238 people with MS tracked over three years, those whose morning activity levels declined were 20% more likely to experience disease progression. Drops in activity between 8 and 10 a.m. correlated with measurable brain volume loss, suggesting wearable sensors could serve as early warning tools.
Read the releaseAmong 72,025 young athletes with sports-related traumatic brain injuries, football accounted for 19% of all cases. Repeat TBIs occurred in 37% of football injuries versus 32% across all sports, and affected players showed higher rates of chronic headaches, vision problems, and mood disorders.
Read the releaseAnalyzing 64 immune biomarkers across 100 weeks of COVID-19 vaccination data, researchers found machine learning could distinguish HIV-positive from HIV-negative responses with near-100% accuracy. But a handful of individuals broke the pattern, hinting at what personalized vaccination could look like.
Read the releaseBaylor College of Medicine researchers found that deleting a single gene segment boosted MeCP2 protein levels by up to 60% in mice and restored normal cell function in Rett syndrome patient-derived neurons, pointing toward a potential antisense therapy for the rare condition.
Read the releaseA sentiment analysis of social media posts around U.S. daylight saving time changes from 2019 to 2023 confirms that both transitions generate negative reactions - but the fall switch to Standard Time produces a gloomier, more persistent response than the spring transition.
Read the releaseA multi-technique analysis of food crusts from Neolithic and Mesolithic pottery shows that European hunter-gatherer-fishers combined a wide variety of plants with seafood in their cooking - a level of culinary complexity that standard lipid analysis had systematically missed.
Read the releaseLGB+ NHS workers overall show no pay gap relative to heterosexual colleagues, but a new study finds a clear divide within that group: workers who have disclosed their sexual identity earn more, while those who have not face a statistically significant pay penalty.
Read the releaseA protein called DeltaFosB accumulates in the brain's reward-memory circuit during chronic cocaine use, turning genes on and off in ways that create the compulsion to relapse. Without it, cocaine does not produce the same drive to seek the drug, mouse studies show.
Read the releaseAcoustic AI systems can identify mosquito species with up to 97% accuracy in lab conditions. But a study recording hundreds of wild mosquitoes in Hungary found that temperature, sex, and individual variation create real-world noise that current training data can't handle.
Read the releaseBy equipping cancer-fighting immune cells with the ability to block a protein that tumors use to suppress immune attacks, UCLA researchers eliminated glioblastoma tumors in up to 88% of preclinical models where standard CAR-T therapy had little effect.
Read the releaseA 1,497-meter drill core from northeastern China has pinned the end of a key geomagnetic reversal to 121.26 million years ago, revealing that terrestrial ecosystems responded to a major oceanic anoxia event more than a million years after the oceans did.
Read the releaseNew volume electron microscopy of the ctenophore aboral organ found 17 cell types - 11 previously unknown - and direct synaptic connections to the nervous system. The data suggests centralized nervous systems may have evolved independently in distant animal lineages.
Read the releaseFor the first time, physicists have measured the turbulent magnetic structure of space at sub-parsec scales by studying gamma rays above 100 TeV pouring from the Geminga pulsar. The finding aligns with turbulence laws derived on scales billions of times larger.
Read the releaseAn AI system trained to detect cancer in fragmented DNA has been repurposed to catch liver fibrosis early - when it's still reversible. A study of 1,576 patients showed it outperforms existing blood markers for early liver disease.
Read the releaseA proof-of-concept study shows that guiding cells to skip a small segment of the MECP2 gene increases protein levels by up to 60% in mice and partially restores electrical activity and gene regulation in cells from Rett syndrome patients - opening a potential antisense therapy route.
Read the releaseAn MIT study using eye-tracking and EEG found that volunteers unconsciously shifted visual focus to the right part of an image as they became expert classifiers - and when shown those gaze maps, their accuracy improved further, suggesting tacit knowledge can be extracted and taught.
Read the releaseWomen's blood clotting patterns shifted measurably after just five days in simulated microgravity, with longer initiation times but faster and stronger clot formation, according to an SFU-ESA study published in Acta Astronautica.
Read the releaseBy engineering a single oxidative modification into the gamma-S crystallin protein, UC Irvine researchers showed that a subtle chemical change - invisible in normal conditions - causes the protein to clump far more readily under stress, suggesting an early molecular step in cataract formation.
Read the releaseA machine learning pipeline can predict Raman spectra for solid battery electrolytes at near-quantum accuracy and a fraction of the computational cost, revealing that low-frequency Raman features reliably flag the liquid-like ion motion needed for high performance.
Read the releaseChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia researchers reviewed how generative AI affects children differently at ages 0-5, 6-11, and 12-plus, finding age-specific risks from blurred social boundaries in toddlers to unfiltered mental health responses for teens.
Read the releaseResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics show that face-to-face conversation is a dynamic coordination system distributed across two bodies and minds, where meaning emerges through continuous mutual prediction and real-time adjustment.
Read the releaseEvo 2, trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides from more than 128,000 whole genomes, can design synthetic genomes as long as simple bacteria and predict which gene variants cause disease - tasks that previously required years of laboratory work.
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