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03/02/2023

How meningitis-causing bacteria invade the brain

Mar 01 2023 11:25 AM

Microbes behind bacterial meningitis hijack pain-sensing nerve cells in the brain's outer layers, disabling a key immune response, a mouse study shows.

Ancient DNA unveils disparate fates of Ice Age hunter-gatherers in Europe

Mar 01 2023 11:00 AM

Ancient DNA unveils two regional populations that lived in what is now Europe and made similar tools but met different fates.

Here's how lemon juice may fend off kidney stones

Mar 01 2023 7:00 AM

Lemon nanoparticles slowed formation of kidney stones in rats. If the sacs work the same way in people, they could help prevent the painful crystals.

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The oldest known pollen-carrying insects lived about 280 million years ago

Feb 28 2023 7:01 PM

Pollen stuck to fossils of earwig-like Tillyardembia pushes back the earliest record of potential insect pollinators by about 120 million years.

The fastest claw in the sea belongs to young snapping shrimp

Feb 28 2023 6:00 PM

When juveniles snap their claws shut to create imploding bubbles, they create the fastest accelerating underwater movements of any reusable body part.

An incendiary form of lightning may surge under climate change

Feb 28 2023 8:00 AM

Relatively long-lived lightning strikes are the most likely to spark wildfires and may become more common as the climate warms.

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Medicated eye drops may delay nearsightedness in children

Feb 27 2023 9:00 AM

Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a growing global health threat. But a Hong Kong study found that medicated eye drops may delay its onset in children.

'Mommy brain' doesn't capture how the brain transforms during pregnancy

Feb 27 2023 7:00 AM

During the transition to motherhood, there's more going on than "momnesia," neuroscientists argue. The brain changes to prep for the job of caregiving

Air pollution made an impression on Monet and other 19th century painters

Feb 26 2023 8:00 AM

The impressionist painting style can be partly explained by the reality of rising air pollution from the industrial revolution, an analysis finds.

Trauma distorts our sense of time and self. A new therapy might help

Feb 24 2023 11:00 AM

The therapy has helped veterans struggling with mental illness imagine their future selves.

A new biomaterial heals heart attack damage in animals. Humans could be next

Feb 24 2023 9:00 AM

If used right after a heart attack, this intravenously delivered biomaterial can preserve cardiac function. It could also treat traumatic brain injury.

50 years ago, Earth's chances of contacting E.T. looked slim

Feb 24 2023 7:00 AM

In 1973, a researcher calculated that it could take millions of years to contact aliens. But that hasn't stopped scientists from trying.

A gel cocktail uses the body's sugars to 'grow' electrodes in living fish

Feb 23 2023 4:25 PM

A chemical reaction with the body's own sugars turned a gel cocktail into a conducting material inside zebrafish brains, hearts and tail fins.

The Milky Way may be spawning many more stars than astronomers had thought

Feb 23 2023 9:00 AM

Glowing radioactive debris from massive stars indicates our galaxy mints 10 to 20 new stars a year — double to quadruple the standard number.

The standard model of particle physics passed one of its strictest tests yet

Feb 23 2023 7:00 AM

An experiment with a single electron, trapped for months on end, produced one of the most precise tests yet of the standard model of particle physics.

Homo sapiens may have brought archery to Europe about 54,000 years ago

Feb 22 2023 2:00 PM

Small stone points found in a French rock-shelter could have felled prey only as tips of arrows shot from bows, scientists say.

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