An axe from the 4th to 3rd millennium BC has been discovered in Poland’s Hrubieszów district. The Lublin Provincial Conservator of Monuments has described the copper axe as being 7.4…
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UK study identifies ideal weight for adults with type 2 diabetes to minimize risk of dying from cardiovascular disease
Credit: PhotoMIX Company from Pexels New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO) in Venice, Italy (12–15 May), identifies the optimum body weight range for adults…
Compound May Curb Alcohol Dependence
Summary: The compound LY2444296, which blocks the kappa opioid receptor, significantly reduces alcohol consumption in animal models of alcohol dependence. This study suggests LY2444296 could be a breakthrough in treating…
Teens & Screen Pain: Unveiling Netflix’s Impact on Youth Empathy
Summary: Popular Netflix shows and films expose adolescents to an average of 10 incidents of pain every hour, challenging portrayals of pain and suffering in media aimed at 12 to…
Bioluminescence Unveils Brain’s Oxygen Pathways
Summary: A new study introduces a novel bioluminescence imaging technique for observing oxygen movement in mouse brains. This method, inspired by firefly proteins, reveals real-time, widespread patterns of oxygen distribution,…
A first-ever complete map for elastic strain engineering
The “map,” or the phonon stability boundary, is a graphical representation that plots the stability regions of a crystal as a function of strain. This map helps scientists and engineers…
Optimizing chronic kidney disease management through a learning health system approach
Health data scientists at PKUHSC initiated the CKD LHS study with physicians and epidemiologists in Yinzhou. Credit: Guilan Kong et al. A recent publication in Health Data Science offers an…
Solution to energy storage may be beneath your feet
Researchers Shin Young Jeong and Zhiwen Ma examine the prototype device that uses superheated sand for long-duration energy storage. Credit: Joe DelNero, NREL Anyone who has ever hot-footed it barefoot across…
Astronomers only knew of a single binary Cepheid system—they just found nine more
This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a type of variable star known as a Cepheid variable. As variable stars go, Cepheids have comparatively long periods — RS Puppis, for example,…
Age Influences Perception of Self-Presentation
Summary: Age significantly impacts how self-presentation, or manipulating others’ evaluations of oneself, is perceived, particularly in the context of the protagonist’s usual performance. Their study, involving elementary school children and…
