Snakes Diversified Explosively After Mass Extinction Where Dinosaurs Were Wiped Out
Modern snakes evolved from ancestors that lived side by side with the dinosaurs and that likely fed mainly on insects and lizards. Then a miles-wide…
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Resurrecting Quasicrystals: Self-Healing Phenomenon Makes an Exotic Material Commercially Viable
Self-healing phenomenon could reduce defects that rendered quasicrystals impractical. A class of materials that once looked as if it might revolutionize everything from solar cells…
Even After Mild COVID-19 Infection, Antibodies Protect From Reinfection for Up to Six Months
The antibodies’ ability to neutralize COVID-19 did not differ significantly over the six-month period. A Michigan Medicine study found that most patients with mild COVID-19…
Delirium Is a Common Consequence of Severe COVID-19 – Cognitive Impairment Could Be Lasting
Cognitive impairment is highly likely for patients in the ICU and could be lasting. More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are revealing…
Earless Worms Can “Listen” – Sense Sound Waves Through Their Skin
Common model species can sense sound waves without ears, providing a new tool for studying auditory sensation. A species of roundworm that is widely used…
Kids Eating Fast Food More Often Since Pandemic – Parents Say They’re Too Stressed To Cook
1 in 5 parents say kids eat fast food more often since COVID pandemic started. 1 in 5 parents say they’re too stressed to cook…
Evolution Now Accepted by Majority of Americans
The level of public acceptance of evolution in the United States is now solidly above the halfway mark, according to a new study based on…
Why People With Diabetes Develop Severe COVID-19 – Mechanism Behind Coronavirus Cytokine Storms Revealed
A new study reveals the mechanism behind cytokine storm during coronavirus infection. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians have noted that certain patients are at especially…
Small Changes in Diet Could Help You Live Much Healthier and More Sustainably
Eating a hot dog could cost you 36 minutes of healthy life, while choosing to eat a serving of nuts instead could help you gain…
Turning Used Diapers Into Sticky Notes: Using Chemical Recycling To Prevent Millions of Tons of Waste
Every year, 3.5 million metric tons of sodden diapers end up in landfills. The superabsorbent material inside these diapers is made up of a matrix…
Solving the Plastic Shortage With an Efficient New Chemical Catalyst
In a year that has already battered manufacturing supply chains, yet another shortage is complicating manufacturers’ and consumers’ lives: plastics, and the food packaging, automotive…
Hospitalizations for Eating Disorders Increased Significantly Among Adolescents During COVID Pandemic
One hospital reports significant increase in medical admissions among adolescents with existing or newly developed eating disorders during pandemic. The number of adolescents admitted to…
NASA Satellite Lets Scientists Track Ocean Microplastics From Space
Scientists from the University of Michigan have developed an innovative way to use NASA satellite data to track the movement of tiny pieces of plastic…
Tracking Ocean Microplastics From Space – See the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Like Never Before
Satellites reveal ocean microplastic fluctuation in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and releases from the Yangtze River in China. An estimated eight million tons of…
Smaller Bodies, Longer Wings, Earlier Migrations: Untangling the Multiple Impacts of Climate Warming on Birds
When a University of Michigan-led research team reported last year that North American migratory birds have been getting smaller over the past four decades and…
An Inconstant Hubble Constant? New Research Suggests Fix to Cosmological Cornerstone
More than 90 years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble observed the first hint of the rate at which the universe expands, called the Hubble constant. Almost…
Massive “Doomsday Glacier” May Be More Stable Than Initially Feared
Study sheds light on the future of the massive Thwaites Glacier. The world’s largest ice sheets may be in less danger of sudden collapse than…
Solving a Mass Extinction Survivor Mystery With Help From Snails Carrying the World’s Smallest Computer
Study yields new insights into the survival of a native snail important to Tahitian culture and ecology and to biologists studying evolution. More than 50…