CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing quickly decimated two caged populations of malaria-bearing mosquitoes (Anopheles gambiae) in a recent study, introducing a new way to solve an age-old problem. But the paper describing…
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Arts and crafts may improve your mental health at least as much as being employed, scientists find
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Could arts and crafts help protect the public’s mental health? A new study in Frontiers in Public Health provides evidence that indulging our creative side could…
Archaeologists excavate “Freemason” tunnel beneath Warsaw park
Archaeologists have excavated part of a mysterious tunnel system beneath Gucin Gaj, a park complex located in the Mokotów district of Warsaw, Poland. The park is situated on the former…
Novel methodology allows for remote testing of functional mobility and muscle strength in elderly patients with dementia
Positioning of camera and participant while executing the functional mobility tests. Credit: Geriatrics Gerontology and Aging (2024). DOI: 10.53886/gga.e0000087_EN A study conducted at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar),…
Research team releases a 76 m-per-pixel global color image dataset and map of Mars
A true color Mars global image map in Robinson projection is created with Tianwen-1 MoRIC image data, the resolution of the original data is ~76 m per pixel, and the…
Engineers design tiny batteries for powering cell-sized robots
The zinc-air battery is 0.1 millimeters long and 0.02 millimeters thick. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology A tiny battery designed by MIT engineers could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous…
Physicists uncover new phenomena in fractional quantum Hall effects
Transport characteristics of a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure Hall bar device at T = 25 mK. a The diagonal (Rxx) and off-diagonal Hall (Rxy) resistances are exhibited between 4 ≤ B ≤ 8 Tesla, corresponding to the filling…
Enormous medieval coin hoard found in Southwest Germany
Archaeologists have discovered an enormous medieval coin hoard in the municipality of Glottertal, Germany. According to a press statement issued by the Stuttgart Regional Council, the hoard was unearthed during…
