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Reduce Emissions: Let’s Use Public Transport

Climate for Health

As the world marked World Environment Day on the 5th of June, with the theme #BeatPlasticPollution, it is also very important to factor in other pollutants which might be deadlier.

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Consuming added sugars may increase risk of kidney stones

Frontiers

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer In an observational study, researchers showed that consuming more added sugars is consistently associated with greater odds of developing kidney stones in the US, especially for ethnicities such as Native Americans or Asians, or for people with a relatively higher income. The mechanisms of this relationship, and whether it is directly causal, aren’t yet known.

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Improving Fleet Management with Blockchain Technology

Smart Data Collective

As the logistics sector continues to expand and evolve, blockchain technology is becoming an integral part of supply chain procedures. Its implementation offers numerous benefits and applications that streamline operations and enhance efficiency. Also, it enables the compilation of detailed information on container movement, providing real-time and transparent tracking throughout the supply chain.

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Social Work Tech Talk: I, Chatbot—What Does AI Have To Do With Social Work?

The New Social Worker

Suddenly, everyone is talking about AI.

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New exoplanet discovery builds better understanding of planet formation

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An international team of scientists have discovered an unusual Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a low-mass star called TOI-4860, located in the Corvus constellation.

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Fighting chronic pain with food: Here are five Frontiers articles you won’t want to miss

Frontiers

By Deborah Pirchner, Frontiers science writer Image: Shutterstock.com At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, it’s impossible to cover all of them. Here are just five amazing papers you may have missed. Certain foods help ease chronic pain Chronic pain caused by rheumatic diseases often requires prolonged treatment using drugs which are associated with side effects.

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Self-Care A-Z: From Wish to Want to Will—Making a Well Way Toward Self-Care

The New Social Worker

Wishing is often a significant aspect of a self-care journey. I wish sounds like a positive thing, right? Yet, actually, I’ve noticed I wish often becomes a “but” barrier. It morphs into an obstacle of impossibility.

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Social media algorithms exploit how humans learn from their peers

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

In prehistoric societies, humans tended to learn from members of our ingroup or from more prestigious individuals, as this information was more likely to be reliable and result in group success. However, with the advent of diverse and complex modern communities -- and especially in social media -- these biases become less effective. For example, a person we are connected to online might not necessarily be trustworthy, and people can easily feign prestige on social media.

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Scientists solve ‘enigma’ of pygmy right whales’ feeding habits

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By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer A pygmy right whales in the wild. Image credit: Henry Cordell Researchers have shown from stable isotope ratios in the baleen of pygmy right whales that this ‘most enigmatic’ species of baleen whales remains in waters off southern Australia year-round and feeds on Australian krill and copepods. Unlike larger relatives, they don’t make seasonal migrations to Antarctic regions.

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Melioidosis Explained: A Rare but Dangerous Disease

Gideon

Melioidosis is a rare but deadly disease caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei , a bacterium found in soil and water in tropical regions. Melioidosis symptoms include fever, coughing, soreness in the chest area, and loss of body mass. The disease is also known as Whitmore’s disease after Alfred Whitmore, who discovered the disease-causing bacteria.

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Building the city of the future: Here are some article collections on sustainable cities

Frontiers

Cities are where many of us spend the majority of their time: to work, play, and live. To explore how this might be done sustainably in the future, we are highlighting the top Research Topics on sustainable cities. Join us by reading up on the incredible findings and solutions made by researchers from across the globe. With more than 720,000 collective views, scientists explored topics and advanced fields, including work on trends in urban agriculture , sustainable urban development , urban play

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Frontiers ebook releases: August 2023

Frontiers

Download the top ebook releases from this month, including work on effort-based decision making , insights into clinical nutrition , findings on how plants adapt to stress , and research on bio-inspired computing. All ebooks are free to download, share and distribute. Shape the future of your field — and publish your own ebook — by editing a special collection around your research area.

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Scientists uncover a startling--and exploitable--coordination of gene expression in tumors

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study has identified a pair of genes whose expression by a type of immune cell within tumors is predictive of outcomes for cancer patients and is linked to a vast network of gene expression programs, engaged by multiple cell types in the tumor microenvironment, that control human cancers.

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Oldest known species of swimming jellyfish identified

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Royal Ontario Museum announces the oldest swimming jellyfish in the fossil record with the newly named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis. This 505-million-year-old swimming jellyfish from the Burgess Shale highlights diversity in the Cambrian ecosystem.

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Sweet smell of success: Simple fragrance method produces major memory boost

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in this study reaped a 226% increase in cognitive capacity compared to the control group. The researchers say the finding transforms the long-known tie between smell and memory into an easy, non-invasive technique for strengthening memory and potentially deterring dementia.

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Winter storms over Labrador Sea influence Gulf Stream system

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The Gulf Stream system plays an important role in climate. The weakening of this system that has been observed over the last two decades is therefore a cause for concern and much debate. The question is whether the measurable changes are already due to human-induced climate change -- model simulations predict such an influence with high probability for the future.

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Thermal imaging innovation allows AI to see through pitch darkness like broad daylight

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Engineers have developed HADAR, or heat-assisted detection and ranging.

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Half the population to have a mental health disorder by 75

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists analyzed data from more than 150,000 adults across 29 countries between 2001 and 2022 with results demonstrating the high prevalence of mental health disorders, with 50 per cent of the population developing at least one disorder by the age of 75.

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New study links brain waves directly to memory

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Simply remembering events can trigger brain rhythms, even more so than when people are experiencing the actual event, says a new study. The findings could lay foundations for cognitive impairment therapy and help improve memory.

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GPT-3 can reason about as well as a college student, psychologists report

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The artificial intelligence language model GPT-3 performed as well as college students in solving certain logic problems like those that appear on standardized tests. The researchers who conducted the experiment write that the results prompt the question of whether the technology is mimicking human reasoning or using a new type of cognitive process.

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Scrambler therapy may offer lasting relief for chronic pain, review paper suggests

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Pain experts suggest that scrambler therapy, a noninvasive pain treatment, can yield significant relief for approximately 80% -- 90% of patients with chronic pain, and it may be more effective than another noninvasive therapy: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS).

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Engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from ancient materials

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Engineers have created a 'supercapacitor' made of ancient, abundant materials, that can store large amounts of energy. Made of just cement, water, and carbon black (which resembles powdered charcoal), the device could form the basis for inexpensive systems that store intermittently renewable energy, such as solar or wind energy.

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Nuclear spin's impact on biological processes uncovered

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have discovered that nuclear spin influences biological processes, challenging long-held beliefs. They found that certain isotopes behave differently in chiral environments, affecting oxygen dynamics and transport. This breakthrough could advance biotechnology, quantum biology, and NMR technology, with potential applications in isotope separation and medical imaging.

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Routinely drinking alcohol may raise blood pressure even in adults without hypertension

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An analysis of data from seven studies involving more than 19,000 adults in the United States, Korea and Japan found a clear association between increases in systolic (top-number) blood pressure and the number of alcoholic beverages consumed daily.

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Sun 'umbrella' tethered to asteroid might help mitigate climate change

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Earth is rapidly warming and scientists are developing a variety of approaches to reduce the effects of climate change. An astronomer has proposed a novel approach -- a solar shield to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth, combined with a tethered, captured asteroid as a counterweight. Engineering studies using this approach could start now to create a workable design that could mitigate climate change within decades.

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Way cool: 'freeze ray' technology

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

An unusual discovery is now being developed as an on-demand cooling solution for high-flying military electronics.

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Gravitational arcs in 'El Gordo' galaxy cluster

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new image of the galaxy cluster known as 'El Gordo' is revealing distant and dusty objects never seen before, and providing a bounty of fresh science. The infrared image displays a variety of unusual, distorted background galaxies that were only hinted at in previous Hubble Space Telescope images.

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New chemical process makes it easier to craft amino acids that don't exist in nature

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Chemists describe a powerful new way to create new-to-nature, 'unnatural' amino acids, which could find use in protein-based therapies and open up novel branches of organic chemistry.

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Butterfly-inspired films create vibrant colors while passively cooling objects

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New films inspired by butterfly wings circumvent the heating effect usually experienced by colored objects absorbing light on a hot day. The new films could be used on the outside of buildings, vehicles and equipment to reduce the energy needed for cooling while preserving vivid color properties.

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3D display could soon bring touch to the digital world

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Engineers have designed a new, shape-shifting display that can fit on a card table and allows users to draw 3D designs and more.

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When electrons slowly vanish during cooling

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Many substances change their properties when they are cooled below a certain critical temperature. Such a phase transition occurs, for example, when water freezes. However, in certain metals there are phase transitions that do not exist in the macrocosm. They arise because of the special laws of quantum mechanics that apply in the realm of nature's smallest building blocks.

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Eco-friendly enzyme to create key chemical building blocks

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Using energy from light to activate natural enzymes can help scientists create new-to-nature enzymatic reactions that support eco-friendly biomanufacturing -- the production of fuels, plastics, and valuable chemicals from plants or other biological systems. Applying this photoenzymatic approach, researchers have developed a clean, efficient way to synthesize crucial chemical building blocks known as chiral amines, solving a longstanding challenge in synthetic chemistry.

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