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Missed Opportunity to Boost Women's Access to Contraception

Gut Microbiome Metabolites Predict Disease Severity

Key Design Parameters for Bispecific T-Cell Engagers Uncovered

Winter Brings Cold Days and Seasonal Surge in Respiratory Viruses

Root Causes of Skin Issues in Women: Hormonal, Immune, and Metabolic Imbalances

Prolonging Life: The Link Between Diet and Longevity

Study Reveals Cellular Communication in PTSD Brains

University of Osaka Reveals Genome Ejection in AAV Vectors

Baby Babbling and Play Predict Cognitive Abilities

Nightly Activity Boosts Memory: New Study

Insights on Human Gaze Behavior in Various Situations

Review Reveals Limitations in Perinatal Palliative Care Evidence

Language Barrier Impact on Emergency Room Triage

Wildfire Smoke and Heat Stress Impact Birth Outcomes

New Solution Improves Accuracy of Fitness Trackers

Study Reveals Infant Pain Response Development

Study Reveals Herpes Simplex Virus-1's Host Hijacking

Northeastern US Heat Wave: Varied Risks for Safety

Conference Explores Chemosensory Testing in Healthcare

New Study Reveals Promising Colorectal Cancer Treatment

New Gene Therapy Method Revives Inactive Genes

Soccer Ball Heading Alters Brain: University of Sydney Study

Precision Psychiatry Roadmap Revolutionizes Diagnosis

Study Links Well-Being to Lower Memory Loss

Anti-Aging Drug Rapamycin Equals Life Extension

Intermittent Fasting Equals Traditional Diets for Weight Loss

Rising Unintentional Fall Deaths Among Older White Americans

Nutrition's Impact on Cancer Patients' Health

Patient Diagnosed with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Due to Fusion Gene

Study: Inflation Reduction Act Won't Impact R&D Investment

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Optical Clocks Transmit Stable Signals Over Long Distances

Exoplanet GJ504b: Lowest-Mass Planet Ever Imaged

New Insights on Collagen Stability Revealed

Enhancing Tissue Visualization with 3D Immunohistochemistry

Nus Researchers Develop High-Optical Nanomaterials

Children's Playground Hours at School: Teacher Supervision Discrepancy

Exploring Flower-Strewn Slopes of Mount Kosciuszko

50 Years Since Steven Spielberg's Movie "Jaws" Made Waves

Florida State University Biologist Uncovers Coral Survival Secrets

Ubc Researchers Propose Quantum Networking Signal Translator

Misinformation Triggers Rivalry in News Sources

Young Bald Eagles Soar Above Big Bear Lake

Researchers Discover Efficient Method to Control Crown-of-Thorns Starfish

Researchers Discover Highly Charged Muonic Ions

Study Reveals Housing Impact on Youth Offending

Alpine Regions: Rising Intensity of Summer Downpours

Astronomers Detect Cosmic Owl Galaxy Merger

Murdoch University Researchers Develop Australian Chickpea Pan-Genome

University of Queensland Tech Boosts Repair of Organs

Tasmania Researchers Create Tool to Prevent Eagle Power Line Collisions

New Mechanism for Ultralight Dark Photons as Dark Matter

Potential Space Elevator Viability Around Ceres

America's Falling Birth Rate: Women's Uncertainty and Impact

Study Shows Strategic Design Boosts Product Innovation

SpaceX Rocket Test Ends in Texas Explosion

Hurricane Erick Strengthens Rapidly Towards Mexico Coast

Life Finds Shelter in Pools of Melted Ice During Earth's Freeze

Peatlands Expansion in European & Canadian Arctic

U.S. Government to Open Fly Factory in Texas

Climate Change Indicators Surge: Scientists Sound Alarm

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Autonomous Micro-Robots Repair Water Pipes Efficiently

Tiny robots could help fix leaky water pipes

Study Validates Moral Decision-Making Technique for AI

New test can help driverless cars make 'moral' decisions

Customizable soft robot modules allow for new haptic interactions

Epfl Researchers Develop Customizable Soft Robotic System

Vision-language model creates plans for automated inspection of environments

Advances in Robotics: Automation for Real-World Tasks

NTSB urges quick fix on Boeing plane engines to prevent smoke from filling cabin after a bird strike

Boeing 737 Max Engines Modified for Safety

Waymo Seeks Permit for Self-Driving Car Tests in New York

Waymo looks to test its self-driving cars in New York

Justice at stake as generative AI enters the courtroom

GenAI Impact on Courts: Legal System and Justice

AI Model Uses Tokens to Generate Answers

Some AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO₂ emissions than others, researchers find

Repurposing Coal Mines for Solar Panels: Unlikely Green Energy Solution

Energy transition: How coal mines could go solar

Meta Attempts $100 Million Bonuses to Lure OpenAI Talent

Meta offered $100 mn bonuses to poach OpenAI employees: CEO Altman

A new tool predicts when users will reject a new technology

Paradoxical Relationship: High Hopes, Tech Skepticism

Singapore Engineers Develop Flying Drum Robot

Two-actuator robot combines efficient ground rolling and spinning flight in one design

Study Reveals Language Models Overemphasize Start and End

Lost in the middle: How LLM architecture and training data shape AI's position bias

AI Video Reconstruction of Christopher Pelkey's Impact Statement Leads to Maximum Sentence

AI 'reanimations': Making facsimiles of the dead raises ethical quandaries

Global Fossil Fuel Phase-Out by 2050: G20's Renewable Energy Potential

G20 countries could produce enough renewable energy for the whole world: What needs to happen

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Tuesday, October 12, 2021

How being an older parent could be beneficial for offspring

Becoming a parent later in life could have beneficial effects for your offspring—in roundworms at least—according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-10-older-parent-beneficial-offspring.html

How being an older parent could be beneficial for offspring

Becoming a parent later in life could have beneficial effects for your offspring—in roundworms at least—according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft poised to launch Oct. 16

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is encapsulated in a protective fairing atop an Atlas V rocket, awaiting its 23-day launch window to open on October 16. All is go for the Southwest Research Institute-led mission to begin, as the spacecraft prepares to launch on a 12-year journey of almost 4 billion miles to visit a record-breaking eight asteroids—one main belt asteroid and seven Jupiter Trojan asteroids.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-10-nasa-lucy-spacecraft-poised-oct.html

The protective role of cells in overwintering fungi

Scientists have discovered a new role for cells that are known to nurture the overwintering reproductive structures in a type of fungi, according to a study published today in eLife.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-10-role-cells-overwintering-fungi.html

Wildfires affect cave diversity underneath scorched surfaces

The landscape at Lava Beds National Monument in northern California is typically home to sage and junipers, with unique lava caves twisting underneath the surface. But in the summers of 2020 and 2021, wildfires tore through the region, burning thousands of acres and leaving the surface charred.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-10-wildfires-affect-cave-diversity-surfaces.html

Challenging the big bang puzzle of heavy elements

It has long been theorized that hydrogen, helium, and lithium were the only chemical elements in existence during the Big Bang when the universe formed, and that supernova explosions, stars exploding at the end of their lifetime, are responsible for transmuting these elements into heavier ones and distributing them throughout our universe.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-10-big-puzzle-heavy-elements.html

Challenging the big bang puzzle of heavy elements

It has long been theorized that hydrogen, helium, and lithium were the only chemical elements in existence during the Big Bang when the universe formed, and that supernova explosions, stars exploding at the end of their lifetime, are responsible for transmuting these elements into heavier ones and distributing them throughout our universe.

No apparent shortage of prey for southern resident killer whales in Canadian waters during summer

A popular belief that there are fewer Chinook salmon during the summer in Canadian waters for southern resident killer whales, compared to an abundance of fish for northern resident killer whales, has been debunked by a study led by scientists at the University of British Columbia.

Tucked-away marble quarries discovered as source for archaic Apollo

The source of marble for a statue of Apollo on the Greek island of Delos has been a mystery to art historians and archaeologists for decades. The stone's chemistry pointed geochemists to the southern end of the nearby island of Naxos, but no one thought there were ancient marble quarries there. A geoarchaeologist believes he found the source.

Global ISA dynamics observed by Landsat satellites from 1972 to 2019

For half a century, human activities drastically altered the climate, environment, and ecosystem of the Earth, which restricted the sustainable development and affected human well-being. Impervious surface areas (ISA), i.e., artificial structures with impermeable characteristics, mainly including roofs, paved surfaces, roads, and hardened grounds, are the most affected regions. Using more than three million Landsat satellite images, this research developed the first global impervious surface area (GISA) dataset from 1972 to 2019. Based on 120,777 independent and random reference sites from 270 cities all over the world, the omission error, commission error, and F-score of GISA are 5.16%, 0.82%, and 0.954, respectively.

Researchers achieve universal route to family of penta-twinned gold nanocrystals

A research team led by Prof. Li Yue from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with Prof. Li Cuncheng from University of Jinan, has recently developed a universal route with fine kinetic control to a family of penta-twinned gold nanocrystals.

Desert locusts remain a serious threat to Pakistan

In 2019 and 2020, desert locusts once again plagued parts of East Africa and huge areas as far as India and Pakistan through the Arabian Peninsula, in an infestation that was described as the worst in decades. A serious agricultural pest, the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria can feed on most types of crops, including grains, vegetables and fruit, causing significant damage to agricultural production and threatening food security in many countries.

No apparent shortage of prey for southern resident killer whales in Canadian waters during summer

A popular belief that there are fewer Chinook salmon during the summer in Canadian waters for southern resident killer whales, compared to an abundance of fish for northern resident killer whales, has been debunked by a study led by scientists at the University of British Columbia.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-10-apparent-shortage-prey-southern-resident.html

Tucked-away marble quarries discovered as source for archaic Apollo

The source of marble for a statue of Apollo on the Greek island of Delos has been a mystery to art historians and archaeologists for decades. The stone's chemistry pointed geochemists to the southern end of the nearby island of Naxos, but no one thought there were ancient marble quarries there. A geoarchaeologist believes he found the source.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-10-tucked-away-marble-quarries-source-archaic.html

New research directions in disordered carbon anodes for Na-ion batteries

Na-ion batteries (NIBs) are gradually attracting much attention as an alternative to lead-acid batteries and supplement to Li-ion batteries (LIBs) owing to the abundant Na resources and excellent cost-effectiveness. Since the most commonly used graphite as an anode material in LIBs cannot be inherently used in NIBs, tremendous efforts have been made to advance the fundamental understanding and design of suitable anode materials for NIBs, including the improvement of Na storage capacity and the study on Na storage mechanisms. According to all these studies, disordered carbons are now the most promising anode candidates for NIBs. Nevertheless, there are still many challenges need to be addressed, and the further exploration of disordered carbon anodes is very important in the future.

source https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-disordered-carbon-anodes-na-ion-batteries.html

Discovery of universal adversarial attacks for quantum classifiers

Artificial intelligence has achieved dramatic success over the past decade, with the triumph in predicting protein structures marked as the latest milestone. At the same time, quantum computing has also made remarkable progress in recent years. A recent breakthrough in this field is the experimental demonstration of quantum supremacy. The fusion of artificial intelligence and quantum physics gives rise to a new interdisciplinary field—-quantum artificial intelligence.

source https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-discovery-universal-adversarial-quantum.html

Global ISA dynamics observed by Landsat satellites from 1972 to 2019

For half a century, human activities drastically altered the climate, environment, and ecosystem of the Earth, which restricted the sustainable development and affected human well-being. Impervious surface areas (ISA), i.e., artificial structures with impermeable characteristics, mainly including roofs, paved surfaces, roads, and hardened grounds, are the most affected regions. Using more than three million Landsat satellite images, this research developed the first global impervious surface area (GISA) dataset from 1972 to 2019. Based on 120,777 independent and random reference sites from 270 cities all over the world, the omission error, commission error, and F-score of GISA are 5.16%, 0.82%, and 0.954, respectively.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-10-global-isa-dynamics-landsat-satellites.html

'Caramel receptor' identified

Who doesn't like the smell of caramel? However, the olfactory receptor that contributes decisively to this sensory impression was unknown until now. Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (LSB) have now solved the mystery of its existence and identified the "caramel receptor". The new knowledge contributes to a better understanding of the molecular coding of food flavors.

Destructive insects produce high-value products from biowaste

European researchers and industries are putting insects to work—from termites that destroy wooden buildings to insect larvae that are star "poop" composters. Packaging, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and animal feed are just some of the products they are beetling away to make for us.

How satellite images can help with environmental land management

Academics at the University of Surrey's Centre for Environment and Sustainability have undertaken research that proves Earth Observation satellite imagery can accurately assess the quality and quantity of some habitat types.

Large effect of Solar activity on Earth's energy budget

This is the result of a new study by researchers from DTU Space at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who have traced the consequences of eruptions on the Sun on clouds and Earth's energy balance. 

Researchers realize quantum teleportation onto mechanical motion of silicon beams

Quantum technology typically employs qubits (quantum bits) consisting of, for example, single electrons, photons or atoms. A group of TU Delft researchers has now demonstrated the ability to teleport an arbitrary qubit state from a single photon onto an optomechanical device—consisting of a mechanical structure comprising billions of atoms. Their breakthrough research, now published in Nature Photonics, enables real-world applications such as quantum internet repeater nodes while also allowing quantum mechanics itself to be studied in new ways.