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Tiny bright objects discovered at dawn of universe baffle scientists

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A recent discovery by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) confirmed that luminous, very red objects previously detected in the early universe upend conventional thinking about the origins and evolution of galaxies and their supermassive black holes.

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PHAB Announces 2024-25 Board of Directors 

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Media Contact: Keith Coleman, VP of Communications and Public Affairs KColeman@phaboard.org info@phaboard.org Elke Shaw-Tulloch, Administrator and State Health Official from the State of Idaho, joins the Board. June 24, 2024 — The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) has announced its 2024-25 Board of Directors and new officers. PHAB also welcomed Elke Shaw-Tulloch, MHS, Administrator and State Health Official, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Division of Public Health, as its newest

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Wireless receiver blocks interference for better mobile device performance

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Researchers developed a new wireless receiver that can block strong interference signals at the earliest opportunity, which could improve the performance of a mobile device.

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Kidneys from Black organ donors are discarded more frequently, even when viable

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Kidneys from deceased Black organ donors are being discarded at a higher rate than other organ donors' kidneys — even when they are working, The Conversation reported June 25.

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Creating supranormal hearing in mice

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A new study has produced supranormal hearing in mice, while also supporting a hypothesis on the cause of hidden hearing loss in people.

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'World record' for data transmission speed

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Researchers have sent data at a record rate of 402 terabits per second using commercially available optical fiber. This beats their previous record, announced in March 2024, of 301 terabits or 301,000,000 megabits per second using a single, standard optical fiber.

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Investigating newly discovered hydrothermal vents at depths of 3,000 meters off Svalbard

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Hydrothermal vents can be found around the world at the junctions of drifting tectonic plates. But there are many hydrothermal fields still to be discovered. During a 2022 expedition of the MARIA S. MERIAN, the first field of hydrothermal vents on the 500-kilometer-long Knipovich Ridge off the coast of Svalbard was discovered.

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New class of Mars quakes reveals daily meteorite strikes

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An international team of researchers combine orbital imagery with seismological data from NASA's Mars InSight lander to derive a new impact rate for meteorite strikes on Mars. Seismology also offers a new tool for determining the density of Mars' craters and the age of different regions of a planet.

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Ecologists reconstruct the history of biodiversity in the Indo-Australian archipelago and its rise as a hotspot

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The Coral Triangle, also known as the Indo-Australian Archipelago, is renowned for having the greatest marine biodiversity on our planet. Despite its importance, the detailed evolutionary history of this biodiversity hotspot has remained largely a mystery. An international research team has now shed light on this history, reconstructing how biodiversity in the region has developed over the past 40 million years.

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Too many missing satellite galaxies found

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Bringing us one step closer to solving the 'missing satellites problem,' researchers have discovered two new satellite galaxies.

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Soft, stretchy electrode simulates touch sensations using electrical signals

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A team of researchers has developed a soft, stretchy electronic device capable of simulating the feeling of pressure or vibration when worn on the skin. This device represents a step towards creating haptic technologies that can reproduce a more varied and realistic range of touch sensations for applications such as virtual reality, medical prosthetics and wearable technology.

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The beginnings of fashion

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A team of researchers suggest that eyed needles were a new technological innovation used to adorn clothing for social and cultural purposes, marking the major shift from clothes as protection to clothes as an expression of identity.

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