Global Distribution of Toxic Pollution and Climate Change Revealed in New Analysis
A new analysis of global datasets shows low-income countries are significantly more likely to be impacted by both toxic pollution and climate change. A new…
A new analysis of global datasets shows low-income countries are significantly more likely to be impacted by both toxic pollution and climate change. A new…
Fasting before and during exposure to Salmonella enterica bacteria protects mice from developing a full-blown infection, in part due to changes in the animals’ gut…
Selective extinction of apex predators suggests a shift to more generalist diets. A global catastrophe 66 million years ago led to the extinction of all…
Better international sequencing efforts are needed to track and respond to new SARS-CoV-2 variants. The lack of sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 variants by the U.S. and…
Glutamate and GABA in the brain have reverse relationships with math ability, which switch during development. The neurotransmitters GABA and glutamate have complementary roles —…
Ability to identify other animals from relative positioning of the joints not unique to vertebrates. Jumping spiders can distinguish living from non-living objects in their…
A city’s street names can provide a glimpse into its cultural value system and a way to quantify cultural indicators, according to a study published…
Regular monitoring may be only way to prevent large COVID-19 outbreaks in schools. New simulations suggest that waiting until a student tests positive is too…
Statistical methods designed for cosmology reveal tomb distribution in Sudan over millennia governed by environmental and social factors. Sudanese Islamic burial sites are distributed according…
A new modeling study suggests that significant variation in virus dynamics from person to person may be a contributing factor to inconsistent findings reported in…
First successful use aboard International Space Station of new technique for studying DNA repair in yeast. Researchers have developed and successfully demonstrated a novel method…
Novel analysis suggests much earlier, more rapid spread of COVID-19 than confirmed cases imply. Using methods from conservation science, a new analysis suggests that the…
Mice lacking ADORA2B in their blood exhibit accelerated aging, including poor memory and hearing deficits. Research conducted by Qiang et al has discovered a link…
New analysis identifies some viruses with potential risk to jump to other animals or humans, including the near-complete genome of a MERS-CoV-related virus. An analysis…
Electronic nose might “sniff out” COVID-19-infected people at mass scale, according to a preliminary proof-of-concept study. Reference: “Proof of Concept for Real-Time Detection of SARS…
Global brain activity seen on fMRI, and its connection with cerebrospinal fluid flow weaker in brains of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease risk or related toxin…
Observational studies have suggested that increased vitamin D levels may protect against COVID-19. However, these studies were inconclusive and possibly subject to confounding. A study…
Currently available COVID-19 vaccines rely on mRNA strands to teach the human immune system to recognize the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical…