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How a brutal drought may have helped unleash yellow fever in Brazil
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (655+ words) Mosquitoes thrive after rain, but drought can also alter behavior and raise disease risk Computer simulations suggest that marmosets, such as these sitting on powerlines in urban Brazil, may have helped spark the country’s first yellow fever outbreak in decades…...
A light-based scan could detect deadly bowel disease in preterm babies
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (310+ words) Researchers hope new technology could catch necrotizing enterocolitis in its early stages A new light-based technology relies on the near-translucent skin of preterm babies to scan their intestines for early signs of a life-threatening disease. Necrotizing enterocolitis, a life-threatening inflammation…...
A photographic memory is wishful thinking
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (412+ words) In fiction, perfect memories save the day, but our brains don’t really work that way By Erin Garcia de Jesús But our brains don’t really work that way. “A lot of people [believe] that our memory acts like a video…...
The glue that binds a proton may be key to its identity
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (384+ words) Gluons, not quarks, carry the proton’s “baryon number,” a study suggests A proton’s identity as a particle called a baryon may reside with a Y-shaped gluon structure (yellow) at the center the particle, rather than its two up quarks (u)…...
Stars’ plasma spurts may be blocked by magnetic fields
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (219+ words) The sun frequently flings plasma into space, but sightings of such eruptions on other stars are rare. Magnetic fields could explain why....
These mammal ancestors birthed live young far earlier than thought
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (539+ words) New fossil pushes a shift from egg laying to live birth back by 90 million years A life reconstruction of the cynodont Chiniquodon theotonicus, which lived about 236 million years ago, portraying a pregnant female (illustrated, left) and a female nursing a…...
Estrogen therapy is linked to fewer signs of Alzheimer’s in the brain
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (301+ words) Women who used estrogen-only hormone therapy had less severe Alzheimer’s pathology at autopsy Women on estrogen-only hormone therapy show fewer plaques and protein tangles, signature signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain. Women are about twice as likely to get…...
A vest tested on the Artemis I mission blocked some radiation exposure
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (540+ words) The 26-kilogram garment protected a model human torso on the uncrewed flight around the moon During the Artemis I mission in 2022, researchers tested the AstroRad vest as radiation protection on model human torsos inside the Orion spacecraft. The colors in…...
Too many choices complicate female frogs’ sex lives
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (276+ words) When the dating pool gets crowded, female frogs don’t always pick Prince Charming Female frogs choose mates based on their calls. But too many options can disrupt females’ decision making and possibly even put them in danger. It’s not just…...
Boaty McBoatface and pals??? perilous mission | Investors Lab
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (210+ words) Boaty McBoatface and pals’ perilous mission Science News It’s crystal clear that Greenland’s glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, but what’s less obvious is when all that ice melt will reach a point of no return — irreversibly altering critical…...