Summary: A new study finds that loneliness impacts memory more negatively than social isolation among older adults. Those who are both socially isolated and lonely experience the greatest memory decline,…
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Abortion restrictions harm mental health, with low-income women hardest hit
People living in states that enacted tighter abortion restrictions in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision, which returned regulation of abortion access to state legislatures, are…
Distinct T-cell signatures observed at different stages of type 1 diabetes development
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland found distinct signatures in CD8+ T cells in blood samples from children with newly diagnosed type 1…
Ensuring Europe’s renewable energy security from above
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers are using AI and satellite technologies to make the continent’s renewable energy infrastructure more reliable. Solar panels and wind turbines had to be shut down…
Physicists discover a way to imprint a previously unseen geometrical form of chirality onto electrons
Schematic representation of the experimental setup used to shape electrons into chiral coils of mass and charge. Credit: Dr. Yiqi Fang, University of Konstanz Have you ever placed the palm…
Bird flu has been invading the brains of mammals. Here’s why
In spring 2022, a handful of red foxes in Wisconsin were behaving oddly. Veterinary pathologist Betsy Elsmo learned that a local wildlife rehabilitation center was caring for foxes with neurological…
Freeze-drying turned a woolly mammoth’s DNA into 3-D ‘chromoglass’
Beef jerky and some woolly mammoths have at least one thing in common: Drying turns their DNA into super-tough glass. This glassy DNA is so stable that it preserved the…
impact of long-tongued pollinator loss in pollination networks. – Functional Ecologists
In this new post, Masayoshi Hiraiwa – postdoctoral researcher at Kindai University – presents his work ‘Loss of functional diversity rather than species diversity of pollinators decreases community‐wide trait matching…
Global goal of tripling renewables by 2030 still out of reach
The renewable energy agency calls for more concrete policy action and finance, with Africa especially lagging on clean energy Despite growing at an unprecedented rate last year, renewable energy sources…
